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
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
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?
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% rarestNo 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.
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...
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...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
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-roomReviews 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.