Escape Academy

Escape Academy is a puzzle game set at a school where students train to become Escapists. You solve challenges in over a dozen handcrafted rooms, designed by experienced real-life escape-room experts, and explore the campus to meet its faculty, a colorful cast of escape specialists, some with secrets of their own. You can play alone or in two-player co-op, locally or online with split-screen.

The academy curriculum

The rooms put you in situations where you must solve puzzles under pressure. You might defuse a bomb during a tea party, complete challenges for the Academy’s AI, race a rival in a puzzle competition, climb a tower filling with water or spray-paint a historic monument before the Headmaster catches you. The curriculum also includes other wacky and sometimes lethal challenges.

The Tournament of Puzzles

In Escape Academy: The Tournament of Puzzles, Coach Yoach takes you on a globe-spanning series of puzzle competitions against friends. You can also play the courses alone. The update adds three large, replayable arenas with secret passages and alternate routes, three game modes, puzzle power-ups, additional achievements and more puzzles.

The arenas are the Tomb of the First Escapist, a tomb in Egypt with secret passages; Hackannery, an abandoned fish cannery turned hacker enclave on a rain-soaked pier, with technological and aquatic-themed puzzles; and The Showman’s Studio, a theater full of magical challenges.

The tournament’s modes are Escape Race, a puzzle race to the finish; Tic-Tac-Toe, a connect-three game with its X’s and O’s locked up; and Scavenger Hunt, where you search for trophies while solving puzzles. Power-ups let you set distracting traps against opponents or use assists to gain an advantage.