Escape Academy

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!

You've just arrived at Escape Academy, a school where promising students train to become the ultimate Escapist.

Once Escape Academy, the current free game on the Epic Games Store, has run its course, it will be up to it will be up to Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery, which will be gratis starting January 23 until January 30, 2025.

Behind the Frame: The Finest Scenery

Guide brush strokes and solve a variety of puzzles to help an aspiring artist complete her masterpiece. As her painting starts to take shape, uncover an emotional tale of chance and artistry revealed behind unrelated yet familiar moments.

Behind the Frame is a vivid, interactive fiction about an aspiring artist on the cusp of finishing the final piece of her gallery submission.

A relaxing, eloquent experience that can be played at any pace. Become immersed in a panoramic world filled with resplendent colors, beautiful hand-animated visuals, and a smooth, easy-listening soundtrack.

As a passionate artist, seek the missing colors that will bring your paintings to life — all while remembering to take the occasional coffee and breakfast breaks that keep you going. There is more than what meets the eye, for every painting has a story to tell.

Key Features:

• Paint, sketch, and retouch your artwork to complete your masterpiece and your memories
• Dive into and explore beautiful panoramic, hand-animated worlds inspired by Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli visuals
• Experience an evocative story, through the eyes of a passionate artist

HAND CRAFTED PUZZLES: Play over a dozen masterfully hand crafted rooms, designed by experienced experts in the field of REAL LIFE escape rooms.

LOCAL/ONLINE CO-OP: Experience the entirety of Escape Academy alone in single player OR through two player co-operative play. Available in local or online splitscreen.

MEET THE FACULTY: Explore the campus of Escape Academy and get to know the faculty, a colorful cast of characters, each an expert in the art of Escape. And some with secrets yet to be uncovered...

Featuring Music and Sound Design by the one and only doseone (Gang Beasts, SLUDGE LIFE, Disc Room, Enter the Gungeon).

ESCAPE ACADEMY'S RESPECTED CURRICULUM

• Attend a Tea 'N Tea Party - Can you defuse the bomb before your tranquil cup of tea gets cold? Your grade (and physical well being) depend on it!
• Hack the Professor - Solve a quantifiably feverish series of challenges to prove to the Academy’s super A.I. that you’ve got the skills to become an Escapist.
• Go for the Gold - Represent your class in everyone’s favorite sporting event, The Rival Room. Go toe-to-toe against your nemesis in a puzzle-race to prove who’s top of the class.
• Do Not Drown! - Being at the bottom of a puzzle-tower that’s rapidly filling with water is NOT ideal. Scramble to the top for that sweet, sweet oxygen.
• Spray Paint the Monument - Art class is no Easy-A at the Academy. Leave your mark on the historic Monument of Escape but uh… hurry up! The Headmaster didn’t exactly approve the lesson plan.

And this is just a portion of the wacky (and often lethal) curriculum!

TOURNAMENT OF PUZZLES

Hit the road with Coach Yoach in Escape Academy: The Tournament of Puzzles! Showdown against your friends in a head to head, globe-spanning series of puzzle competitions!

This major content update features three massive arenas, three new game modes, puzzle power-ups, additional achievements and lots and lots of puzzles.

THREE MASSIVE ARENAS

Puzzle your way through giant, replayable arenas, complete with secret passages and alternate routes.

• Tomb of the First Escapist - Deep in the heart of Egypt where Escape began, puzzle your way through the tomb's secret passages and make sure you don’t become a permanent resident!
• Hackannery - Abandoned fish cannery turned hacker enclave, this rain soaked pier is overloaded with technological and aquatic themed puzzle surprises.
• The Showman’s Studio - Step right up and prepare to be puzzled! The biggest theater in all of Escape boasts a plethora of magical challenges to confront!

COMPETITIVE PUZZLING

• Escape Race - Face off against your friends in a puzzle race to the finish.
• Tic-Tac-Toe - The classic connect three where the X’s and O’s are all locked up.
• Scavenger Hunt - Search for trophies while you hunt for solutions to tricky puzzles.

INTRODUCING POWER-UPS

And if you thought things couldn’t get wackier, Tournament of Puzzles features exciting new Power-Ups! Deploy distracting traps against your opponents or or gain an advantage by utilizing assists and secure the win.

More of a solo solver? Not a problem! Coach Yoach is happy to let any Escapist solve their way through the courses in single player mode. Puzzle practice makes puzzle perfect!

And that’s just a portion of the zany (and occasionally lethal) surprises the tournament has in store for Escapists with the guts to enter. So what are you waiting for?

Hike up those puzzle pants and get ready to solve!