Digital escape room games have exploded in popularity recently, as people explore the best ways to turn the fun of an escape room into something you can do from home. A lot of these games are free to play, or accept pay-what-you-can donations, so if you’re looking for cheap things to do from home that also involve puzzles, look no further! Here’s a roundup of some of the best free online escape games we’ve played.
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Escape From Home
Play here • Length: 10-30 minutes each • Difficulty: Easy
Our team spend many hours everyday looking for the escape games that would do your pleasure. Are you looking for a point and click, or a room escape games? Just take a look at our categories, with thousands of games, you will be pretty sure to find what you want! Feel free to comment. Get out of tough situations and sneak away in one of our many free, online escape games! We have a plethora of escape games to test your skills. Jailbreak challenges put you in a locked prison cell. You must be resourceful and clever enough to find an exit route. Darker games send you into torture chambers.
This is a series of three quick games from Escape From Home, an Egyptian tomb, a pirate adventure, and a mysterious trip around the world. They’re linked together by a shared premise: you’re travelling through a mysterious wardrobe in your attic, only to find yourself in the middle of a puzzling situation. Work out the passcode on each page and enter it to access the next part of the adventure. Keep an eye on the format for entering answers — it can be a bit fiddly, sometimes requiring numbers as digits and sometimes as words.
The Egyptian Escape and A Pirate’s Problem are quick and easy games to get started with. Global Gateway is a little bit trickier, and uses a few more different types of media, including an audio puzzle and one that involves doing some origami.
Marty and the Thief in the Night
Free Online Escape Games 2019
Play here • Length: 10-20 minutes • Difficulty: Easy
This short game offers a sequence of four puzzles to solve, in order to work out the details of a break in. It’s well-designed, with a polished interface, and it features perhaps the best character of any game on this list: Marty, a guard dog sporting some extremely cool sunglasses. One of the puzzles is a memory challenge, so don’t cheat!
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Escape Room Herndon: Potter’s Escape Game
Play here • Length: 45-60 mins • Difficulty: Medium
This is a lovely sequence of twelve puzzles following the plot of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone. Solutions will either be numbers or words/phrases (although it doesn’t tell you beforehand whether the solution you’re looking for will be letters or numbers, so figuring out what you’re supposed to be solving for adds to the challenge!). You can solve the majority of the puzzles online, but one of them is tricky to do without printing it out. This is a good collection of puzzles, some easier and some trickier, set in a nicely designed interface. Note that the game contains spoilers for the plot of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, if that’s something that anyone at all cares about in 2020.
Medogan
Play here • Length: 60-120 minutes • Difficulty: Easy/Medium
Medogan, by Modern Fables, is part escape game and part text-adventure story. It’s a beautifully designed game with a lot of narrative, drawing the player into some immersive worldbuilding. There are currently two parts, each one taking roughly an hour to complete — and, in a nice change of pace from many escape games, you won’t want to rush while you’re playing it. Instead, take your time and explore every bizarre, charming, slightly-sinister detail of the weird idyllic town that the game lands you in. The puzzle elements aren’t particularly difficult, though they’re enough of a challenge to keep you occupied. Where Medogan really stands out, though, is in the creativity of the design.
Google Forms games
The rest of our recommended games are examples of a different style for free online escape games. Rather than being playable in browser or built into a website, they’re playable via Google Forms — make progress through the game by entering the correct answers into the form.
Hogwarts Digital Escape Room (Peters Township Public Library)
Play here • Length: 10-15 minutes • Difficulty: Easy
This is a short game (about 15 minutes), and correspondingly easy. It uses multiple-choice options for answers, which makes it easy to crack or reverse-engineer puzzles, so for a better escape room-style experience we recommend trying to solve the puzzle before looking at the answer options.
Harry Potter Digital Escape Room (UTS Quidditch Society)
Play here • Length: 60-90 minutes • Difficulty: Medium
Yet another Harry Potter-themed game, this is a step up in pretty much every sense. It’s much longer, much more challenging, and much nerdier. This game is definitely one for Harry Potter lovers, leading through you a long and intricate adventure that draws heavily on the source material for its theming — one of the puzzles requires you to have a print edition of Prisoner of Azkaban on hand in order to solve it. The puzzles are a bit hit or miss: some of them dragged a little or were easy to crack, but some are great fun. This game’s strength is its use of the format: there are no multiple choice answers, and the first part of the game breaks the mold for online escape games in allowing you to explore the puzzles in any order, rather than requiring all the answers to be sequential.
Spy Apprentice Digital Escape Room (Washington-Centerville Public Library)
Play here • Length: 30-60 minutes • Difficulty: Tricky
This is a medium-length game (30-60 minutes), with some very difficult puzzles. A couple of the puzzles could have been better hinted, but the vast majority are very well-designed, and hard enough for anyone looking for a challenge. The game also handles the ‘online’ part of ‘online escape game’ well, managing to integrate links to relevant books and webpages in a way that isn’t clunky and doesn’t break the theming.
If online escape games aren’t your thing, discover some other ways to play escape rooms from home. Feeling inspired to create your own? Check out our introductory tips for setting up your DIY escape room!
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2020-04-21Whether you’re teaching students virtually, hosting a Zoom get-together or just looking for more ways to engage and entertain your child at home, a digital escape room can be an enjoyable and educational addition to your day.
Virtual escape rooms typically have a fun theme. To “escape” the room, participants solve clues to open digital locks. The clues usually pertain to the topic of the room, but sometimes they’re presented as math problems, word puzzles or other tests of general knowledge.
We’ve rounded up a collection of 10 free digital escape rooms in an array of themes, with something for everyone.
1. Minecraft Escape Room
Watch out for the creepers! This Minecraft Escape Room, created by the Regency Park Branch Library in New Port Richey, Florida, incorporates math problems, videos and more for fans of the building, mining and mob-fighting game.
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2. Hogwarts Escape Room
The Peters Township Public Library, located in McMurray, Pennsylvania, has created the Hogwarts Escape Room, a Harry Potter-inspired virtual escape room. The premise? It’s your first year at Hogwarts School and you end up locked in a room, instructed to get out using only clues — no magic!
3. Ultra Mega Super Death Escape Room
Are you ready to take on this formidable challenge? Recommended for teams of up to four people, ages 13 and up, this escape room has many rules, such as no Googling or calculators (although paper and pencil are fine). To solve the clues, use math concepts and world geography.
4. Spy Apprentice Digital Escape Room Adventure
This spy-themed mission takes you around the world (virtually, of course) solving clues. Presented by the Washington-Centerville Public Library in Centerville, Ohio, this escape room is challenging for groups or individuals. Since it’s rather tricky to solve, it’s ideal for teens and adults.
5. Oscar’s Stolen Oscar
Something is fishy at the National Aquarium — and it’s not the fish! Oscar the oscar fish, one of the main characters from the movie “Shark Tale,” has been the victim of a crime. Learn about sea life while searching for clues in this virtual escape room.
6. Welcome to Romeo & Juliet Escape Room
Juliet’s parents want her suitor to prove that he’s intelligent enough to deserve their beloved daughter. Will you pass the test and escape the room?
7. Dog Man Digital Escape Room
Dav Pilkey’s beloved part dog, part man, all heroic police officer needs your help. You’ll have to go through Petey the Cat’s Playhouse and into a parallel universe to save him in this digital escape room.
8. Jumanji: Escape Room
You’re stuck inside a Jumanji video game. You’ll need to get past many obstacles — solving puzzles and riddles — to get to the magic gem at the jaguar statue and escape the game.
9. Unlock Disney World
You wake up and find yourself alone in the Country Bear Jamboree. You fell asleep during the show and everyone else left. Disney World closed, and you’re locked inside! Can you escape? (Make sure to click Present at the top of the slideshow to begin.)
10. Escape from Wonderland Digital Escape Room
Created by the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System in Moultrie, Georgia, this escape room is based on the book “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll, as well as the movies. It’s intended for all ages, and you can complete it by yourself or with a group. Chase the White Rabbit down a hole and let the fun begin!
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Before your next Zoom meeting, pick out one of these enticing escape rooms. Are you up to the challenge?
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