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Games like Mad Experiments: Escape Room

If Mad Experiments: Escape Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mad Experiments: Escape Room 2, How 2 Escape and Paramnesia: Escape Together — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and immersive. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.

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About Mad Experiments: Escape Room: Award-nominated escape game. Alone or with up to 5 players, explore 3 unique rooms, solve mind-bending puzzles, and unravel the dark secrets of the Professor Cheshire and his experiments.

2020StrategyIndieAdventureSimulationCasual14.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindows · macOS · Linuxby PlayTogether Studio
Mad Experiments: Escape Room — Steam game cover
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Co op chaos stays readable and funGentle hint system nudges without spoilingPuzzles reward critical thinking without pixel huntsAtmosphericChallengingImmersive

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Steam players who put hours into Mad Experiments: Escape Room also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.

  1. Mad Experiments: Escape Room 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Top pick for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Mad Experiments 2: Escape Room is the sequel of the award-nominated multiplayer escape game Mad Experiments. Alone or with up to 5 friends, follow the story of Hildegarde and Professor Cheshire, explore rich environments to find clues, and solve mind-bending puzzles to escape!

    2022AdventureSimulationCasual12.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. How 2 Escape

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer and a challenging mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Second-strongest match for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.

    2023IndieAdventureSimulation12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Paramnesia: Escape Together

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Third-strongest match for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    A Cooperative Mystery Unfolds: In 1948, four investigators come together to find a missing priest, only to be trapped in a sinister space. Through teamwork, they uncover clues, echoes of their pasts, and mysterious notes signed in their names......

    2024IndieAdventureRPG8.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Stuff to do

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    A puzzle horror game inspired by the works of David Lynch and Harlan Ellison. Three developers disappeared inside their own game. Now you are stuck in it as well. Find them and discover what happened. Do stuff. Check your pulse. Escape the rabbit hole.

    2026IndieAdventureCasualSteam ↗
  5. Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    First‑person escape‑room puzzler (1–4 players). Unite the Horn of the Fallen One, Scepter of Radiance, and Abbot’s Ring to escape a cursed convent in 60–90 minutes.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Between Time: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Ranked #6 for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    You are going to steal a time machine. In this escape room, you have to travel through time, explore mysterious places and solve puzzles to get priceless treasures. Will you be able to make it back alive?

    2021IndieAdventureCasual9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Ranked #7 for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    "Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist" is a co-operative atmospheric reverse escape-room puzzle game. You are a master thief who has been hired to rob a mysterious mansion, filled with various puzzles. Do you think you have what it takes to conquer the challenges that await you in the mansion.

    2022IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Tested on Humans: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Ranked #8 for Mad Experiments: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    You are the test subject. In this dark environment escape room, you have to solve various puzzles to escape from the research center where you are trapped. Can you find out how you got there and escape???

    2021IndieAdventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mad Experiments: Escape Room at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Sid Meier's Civilization® V

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!

    2010Strategy7.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under Mad Experiments: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Dagon: by H. P. Lovecraft

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Face unspeakable horrors. Succumb to madness. Welcome to a free daemonic narrative experience inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Paper Lily - Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.

    2024IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Project Kat - Paper Lily Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Project Kat is a short, unconventional RPG horror game in which there is always another way. Solve puzzles, make friends (or not), and guide Kat as she attempts to uncover the mystery behind a strange golden letter.

    2021IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

More from PlayTogether Studio

Other recommendable Steam games by PlayTogether Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Run Prop, Run! - Puropu Pursuit

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Another title from PlayTogether Studio, the studio behind Mad Experiments: Escape Room. Shares Casual with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Run Prop, Run! is a 12-player prop hunt hide & seek game with platforming, skills, and crazy game rules! Join the hunters army to seek props, or disguise as random objects to deceive the others!

    2021Free To PlayCasualEarly AccessFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Mad Experiments: Escape Room 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Another title from PlayTogether Studio, the studio behind Mad Experiments: Escape Room. Shares Adventure and Simulation with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Mad Experiments 2: Escape Room is the sequel of the award-nominated multiplayer escape game Mad Experiments. Alone or with up to 5 friends, follow the story of Hildegarde and Professor Cheshire, explore rich environments to find clues, and solve mind-bending puzzles to escape!

    2022AdventureSimulationCasual12.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Puropu Defense Squad

    WHY THIS

    Shares co op multiplayer and a challenging mood with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Another title from PlayTogether Studio, the studio behind Mad Experiments: Escape Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Defend your world as sentient Props in Puropu Defense Squad! Build, upgrade, and evolve your heroes to crush waves of filthy humans worldwide. Dive into a unique mix of third-person action and tower defense—solo or with friends—in an endlessly replayable co-op campaign!

    2024ActionStrategyIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Mad Experiments: Escape Room - Sanctuary

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PlayTogether Studio, the studio behind Mad Experiments: Escape Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    First‑person escape‑room puzzler (1–4 players). Unite the Horn of the Fallen One, Scepter of Radiance, and Abbot’s Ring to escape a cursed convent in 60–90 minutes.

    2025StrategyIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Arctic Drive

    WHY THIS

    Another title from PlayTogether Studio, the studio behind Mad Experiments: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

    Brave the Arctic, where one dead engine can end the whole run. Arctic Drive is a 1–4 player co-op survival sim set in a procedurally generated winter wilderness, a world where you scavenge fuel and supplies, repair your rig, and haul it all to your base. Stay warm, stay moving, stay together.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mad Experiments: Escape Room

Is Mad Experiments: Escape Room verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Mad Experiments: Escape Room is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
How much does Mad Experiments: Escape Room cost?
Mad Experiments: Escape Room is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Mad Experiments: Escape Room have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Mad Experiments: Escape Room supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online Co-op).
What games are most similar to Mad Experiments: Escape Room?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mad Experiments: Escape Room are Mad Experiments: Escape Room 2, How 2 Escape, Paramnesia: Escape Together.
Who developed Mad Experiments: Escape Room?
Mad Experiments: Escape Room was developed by PlayTogether Studio.

imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Mad Experiments: Escape Room.

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