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Games like Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room

If Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room, Darkstone Bay and Between Time: Escape Room — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room: The VR version of the third chapter of the Mystery Box series. Can you crack crazy puzzles to open incredible boxes and escape the room you're trapped in?

2023StrategyIndieAdventure9.99 USDWindowsby XSGames
Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room — Steam game cover

Players who liked Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room also play

Steam players who put hours into Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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. Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But you will find much more...

    2025Adventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Darkstone Bay

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    A shipwreck has been hidden on this island for 300 years. Nobody has found it. You arrive at Darkstone Bay determined to change that. Cross the island by solving ancient puzzles, navigate rocky beaches, caves and dense jungles in an escape room inspired adventure. Will you be the one to find it?

    2026IndieAdventureCasual6.29 USDSteam ↗
  3. Between Time: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 ↗
  4. Escape Memoirs: Mansion Heist

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 ↗
  5. First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    "First Class Escape 2: Head in the Clouds" is a co-operative atmospheric escape-room-style puzzle game, set in a beautiful luxury airship. Do you think you have what it takes to overcome the challenges that await you on the airship?

    2022IndieAdventureCasual7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Mad Experiments: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Pyramids and Aliens: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Embark on an archaeological adventure inside an ancient pyramid to find your missing mentor. As an intrepid explorer, solve puzzles, investigate clues, and unravel the pyramid's secrets. Spoiler: it was not built by humans!

    2024AdventureCasual12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Scene Investigators

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Scene Investigators is a hardcore deductive reasoning game for fans of the "true crime" genre. Step into re-created crime scenes, observe closely for pieces of evidence, analyze possible motives behind the crimes, and uncover what truly happened.

    2023IndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 ~50% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 ↗
  4. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

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

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

    2009Strategy4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  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 Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

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

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Travellin Cats in Paris

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!

    2023IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

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

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

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

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. 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 Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 ↗

More from XSGames

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

  1. Mystery Box: Hidden Secrets

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    A point-and-click puzzle game where you have to solve intriguing riddles around different boxes and discover some cool stories about popular inventions!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Mystery Box 4: The Journey

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Welcome to the 4th chapter of the popular 'Mystery Box' escape room puzzle game series! 10 new boxes full of enigmas to crack are waiting for you on this journey through lost worlds.

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure6.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Mystery Box 3: Escape The Room

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Welcome to the 3rd chapter of the "Mystery Box" series. You're trapped inside dark rooms and must solve intriguing enigmas to open boxes and escape. Can you make it?

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Mystery Box 2: Evolution

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Enjoy the 2nd chapter of the Mystery Box game series! Unlock 57 boxes by solving tons of intriguing puzzles that will put your brain to work!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Portals: Escape the Infinity

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    A transcendent point-and-click puzzle adventure. Can you escape 50 Portals?

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. The Da Vinci Cryptex

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Are you ready to solve 50 incredible riddles to gain your freedom? Test your IQ skills by playing The Da Vinci Cryptex and find out the genius you are!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. The Da Vinci Cryptex 2

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Take the challenge again and crack 50 new incredible riddles in the sequel of The Da Vinci Cryptex!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Da Vinci Cryptex 3

    WHY THIS

    Another title from XSGames, the studio behind Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Take the challenge again and crack 50 new amazing riddles in the third chapter of The Da Vinci Cryptex! series!

    2023StrategyIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room.

    Find the hidden fortune of Blackrock Manor. Discover the truth about the family deaths. In this mysterious Escape room, you will have to solve puzzles to find the hidden vault with the treasure. But you will find much more...

    2025Adventure9.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Between Time: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Adventure with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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 ↗
  3. Mad Experiments: Escape Room

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Mystery Box VR: Escape The 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.

    2020StrategyIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room

How much does Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room cost?
Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room are Secrets of Blackrock Manor - Escape Room, Darkstone Bay, Between Time: Escape Room.
Who developed Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room?
Mystery Box VR: Escape The Room was developed by XSGames.

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