The Experiment: Escape Room

The Experiment: Escape Room

Skip · Multiplayer · 2018

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 1, under the fair line, at $3.99.

Length
1.1h 1.7h to 100%
Value
$3.63/hr
Reviews
54% of 271 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.

Next sale
Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4

Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.

What drives the score

How to read this

Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Holding it back
Reviews54% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 56% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach75K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$3.63/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds2 of 147 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

"The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, Nvidia 450 / AMD equivalent, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 67 times in the 8 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 40 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.

It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 93 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Escape Simulator ($19.99, scores 69) and We Were Here Too ($9.99, scores 49) both outscore it.

More about The Experiment: Escape Room

Inside the two-hour refund window, 45 percent of the 148 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 63 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

56% start to 31% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements

What players say

WARNING! It's impossible to solve one of the puzzles on lowest graphic settings.
DaenRecommendedafter 3.8h134 found this helpfulRead on Steam
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I've been in many real life escape rooms in the past couple of years and I can say this game felt like a genuine escape room experience that can be played on pc. You can either play the game as single player and take your time with more difficult puzzles or play with friends and enjoy it as you would normally do in an escape room. The game environment is creepy and menacing and the puzzle has multiple rooms that you...
CrimsonRecommendedafter 1.6h26 found this helpfulRead on Steam
OK so at least this one has working turn and teleport. but the puzzle of book paintings, doesnt work. the numbers that are ment to be on each one are not. there is a 7 and a line that could be a 1 where its ment to be, but the non discript scribbles are just as unclear and mistakable for numbers and looks like there is an 8 where there isnt. seems like someone originally intended the amount of books to be the...
polymanictazNot recommendedafter 1.8hMar 2023Read on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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The Experiment: Escape Room scores 1/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/977570/the-experiment-escape-room
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperOnSkull Games
PublisherOnSkull Games
GenreMultiplayer
Released2018
Players75Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements4