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Games like The Experiment: Escape Room

If The Experiment: Escape Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are Escape First, Escape First 2 and Escape First 3 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its creepy atmosphere enhances immersion, immersive medical lab setting and multiplayer bonding experience. 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 The Experiment: Escape Room: "The Experiment" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! You took part in an experiment that went out of control, can you escape the facilities before it's too late?

2018IndieAdventureCasual3.99 USDWindowsby OnSkull Games
The Experiment: Escape Room — Steam game cover
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Players who liked The Experiment: Escape Room also play

Steam players who put hours into The Experiment: 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. Escape First

    WHY THIS

    Shares time pressure and a tense mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Top pick for The Experiment: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    "Escape First" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Escape First 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

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

    "Escape First 2" is the second installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Escape First 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

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

    "Escape First 3" is the third installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Curious Cases

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiplayer co op and an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

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

    For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore. He has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Escape Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiplayer co op and an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

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

    First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

    2021IndieAdventureSimulation19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Tales of Escape

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

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

    "Tales of Escape" is a series of 6 person multiplayer escape room adventures for virtual reality or desktop pc! Gather your friends and choose a story to play!

    2017IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  7. Haunting Hour

    WHY THIS

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

    Cooperate in this Cross-platform Multiplayer Virtual Reality Escape Room to escape the Witch’s Castle. Pit your wits against twisted puzzles and crazy challenges as you and your fellow imprisoned ghosts race against time. There's only an hour until the Haunting Hour begins, will you make it out?

    2019StrategyIndieAdventure5.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Rec Room

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The Experiment: Escape Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Rec Room is the best place to build and play games together. Party up with friends from all around the world to chat, hang out, explore MILLIONS of player-created rooms, or build something new and amazing to share with us all.

    2021AdventureMassively MultiplayerFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to The Experiment: Escape Room

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. Tales of Escape

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Reviewers of The Experiment: Escape Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    "Tales of Escape" is a series of 6 person multiplayer escape room adventures for virtual reality or desktop pc! Gather your friends and choose a story to play!

    2017IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. Dark Romance: Sleepy Hollow Collector's Edition

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Reviewers of The Experiment: Escape Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Can you save your hometown from the Headless Horseman?

    2021AdventureCasual19.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. The Experiment

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Reviewers of The Experiment: Escape Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    The tests went wrong. He has been transformed. It is hostile toward others. You have been assigned the task of killing the horrifying creature. Listen closely as it could be around any corner. (Game includes Remastered + Classic versions)

    2024ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. MINE

    WHY THIS

    Reviewers of The Experiment: Escape Room cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Oh, I think there's something wrong with the mine Why don't you run away now?

    2024ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape 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 ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~63% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Adventure and Casual with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Placid Plastic Duck Simulator

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.

    2022SimulationCasual1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Peggle Deluxe

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Casual with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.

    2007Casual0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Experiment: Escape Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

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

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  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 The Experiment: 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 Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015

    WHY THIS

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

    A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. 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 The Experiment: Escape Room.

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

    2021IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck 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. Cube Escape: Paradox

    WHY THIS

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

    The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

    2018IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from OnSkull Games

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

  1. Escape First Alchemist ⚗️

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    First-person escape game, playable solo or co-op with up to 4 people. Solve riddles of a reclusive alchemist that trapped you in his workshop. Brew potions and overcome challenges as he laughs at your failures and makes light of your successes...But what if things are not what they seem?

    2023ActionSportsIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Escape First

    WHY THIS

    Shares time pressure and a tense mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    "Escape First" is a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.

    2018IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Curious Cases

    WHY THIS

    Shares multiplayer co op and an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    For Desktop or VR! In this 3 chapter story, you play as a modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore. He has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Escape First 2

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    "Escape First 2" is the second installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.

    2019IndieAdventureCasual5.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Unsafe Express

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Unsafe Express is a cooperative first-person survival horror game for 1-4 players. Navigate through space stations, collect materials and outlast your enemies! Choose your objective based on complexity levels, then cast your vote. Gather items, exterminate hostiles, fulfill missions and repeat!

    2024ActionIndieAdventure11.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Escape First 3

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    "Escape First 3" is the third installment of a multiplayer escape room puzzle game for virtual reality or desktop PC! It includes 3 different escape rooms to choose from and can be played competitively, co-op or solo.

    2020IndieAdventureCasual6.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Fovos VR

    WHY THIS

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Fovos is a post-apocalyptic horror, rail shooter for the HTC Vive, set in a future where an omnipotent AI is taking over human brains through genetic implants.

    2019ActionFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  8. Tales of Escape

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    Another title from OnSkull Games, the studio behind The Experiment: Escape Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Experiment: Escape Room.

    "Tales of Escape" is a series of 6 person multiplayer escape room adventures for virtual reality or desktop pc! Gather your friends and choose a story to play!

    2017IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Experiment: Escape Room

How much does The Experiment: Escape Room cost?
The Experiment: Escape Room is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does The Experiment: Escape Room have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — The Experiment: Escape Room supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
What games are most similar to The Experiment: Escape Room?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Experiment: Escape Room are Escape First, Escape First 2, Escape First 3.
Who developed The Experiment: Escape Room?
The Experiment: Escape Room was developed by OnSkull Games.

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