Escape Simulator

Escape Simulator

The Maddening Study
154 Comments
Tomer Trashman 11 May @ 12:57pm 
Just realized the solution to that puzzle now, two hours later in bed. FUCK. It wasn't broken after all. They simply muat've changed it from old versions.

Level lives up to its name in being maddening.
Tomer Trashman 11 May @ 11:41am 
room is broken sadly. the circle turners in the second room show up completely black rather than loading a texture as they are supposed to.
other people seemed to have other issues, chalk it up to this being a rather old level at this point.

Such a shame though! the one hour I had before being locked by the glitch was really good! the main problem of the room really is the fact that many puzzles give no audio cue or no clue towards what is their reward, same with many interactable elements.
Shimmer712 15 Nov, 2024 @ 11:26pm 
The planets don't give any result no matter which order I put them in.

Also, in the room with the eyes on the desk, are the wheels on the wall above the desk meant to be black or is there supposed to be some colour?
Shadow Mutt 11 Nov, 2024 @ 10:12pm 
Yeah, the pipe turners seem to be breaking, maybe when one of the drawers or chest opens in front or the panel opens behind it's causing a problem? Don't know when it stopped letting me turn them.
Steve Believe 10 Nov, 2024 @ 10:23pm 
@br0ther_bear, I thought it was a glitch at first, but it's not, you'll be able to solve the wheels later when you gain a new perspective
TMOS 9 Nov, 2024 @ 7:05am 
great stuff, beautiful labyrinth breaking our humble minds and melting them into a mere putty; did not escape <3 a guide would be a godsend LOL
Beowufl 8 Nov, 2024 @ 10:08pm 
The blue and black marble and not ineractable. Map is not solvable cause of that.
br0ther_bear 8 Nov, 2024 @ 2:18am 
There was a lot I struggled to figure out, but the thing that ended up stopping me dead in my tracks was the Color Wheels not loading in correctly, and instead were all just solid black circles, making it entirely impossible to solve
lucheiah 12 Sep, 2024 @ 7:13pm 
Holy krump, that took a while! I got stuck on not being able to smash the glass covering the cards; I tried throwing every thing I picked up at it but I wasn't picking up non-key items... then I, in frustration, threw a trophy at it and it broke! It would be nice if there was some kind of audio feedback when you successfully complete a puzzle - I'd get a puzzle right but keep going because I hadn't realised it had done anything (especially if it triggered something in a different room or whatever) only to realise, 5 minutes and a lot of frustration later, that I'd actually solved it and could have moved on. No bugs that I could tell, and in retrospect the puzzles were logical (and triggered an "ah ha!" moment every time I solved one!)
Chikara 22 Aug, 2024 @ 1:34pm 
Very fun and VERY difficult room! Everything worked as it should, everything could be picked up for me. The only tip in the upside down room for players, is that if the keys do not drop, look up into the drawers and pick them from there. Well done to the creator, this must have taken a lot of work!
Chikara 22 Aug, 2024 @ 12:56pm 
Everything worked up until planet puzzle, it doesn't react to the planets being placed and no key drops.I love these types of rooms where there is a ton to do on a small space, but cannot continue. Will try again later.
junior 18 Feb, 2024 @ 2:23pm 
Great room great puzzles. I just think that the big chess pieces should be pickable objects. I dropped down the black king and put it aside. Then it got stuck behind the cabinet door when it is opened. I had to start again. And the battleship puzzle was hard to understand.Anyway one of my favourite rooms.
SumbreroMouse 21 Jan, 2024 @ 5:04pm 
Uncollectable props made it so we couldn't finish the room (two marbles)
Kmangel 26 Feb, 2023 @ 12:19am 
I liked the room up until a certain point. I had to use a walkthrough for the battleship puzzle. There didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason for where the mixed colors went. :steamsad:
kaan 25 Feb, 2023 @ 1:33pm 
One of my favourite Rooms, nice work!:lunar2019coolpig:
LotzoTheBear 25 Feb, 2023 @ 1:33pm 
Great Room, please more xD
Aleksandr009 18 Feb, 2023 @ 3:31am 
The blue marble and black marble cannot be collected!
The key in the upside down room does not reach the door! To open the door had to toss the key!
:steamsad:
Monkey_Chicka 4 Feb, 2023 @ 11:03pm 
Two clues here in the comments helped me as well: 1. you don't need to count people in picture frames. Just keep looking for picture frames, and 2. look closely at the owl.
Monkey_Chicka 4 Feb, 2023 @ 11:01pm 
Wow, this was a really fun room. Everything worked OK for me playing on my PC. No bugs. I did have to look at a walkthrough to get help me figure out two puzzles, but other than that, I got everything else eventually. There were several fun challenges here!
Caerigna 7 Jan, 2023 @ 2:47pm 
fun room, just ran into a couple bugs:

1.) the tube turning color circles glurped on me only the bottom 2 of the six could be turned after throwing the switch to see the pipes behind them.

2.) the blue marble was not interactable from the moment the cupboard door opened revealing it.

will give it a go again some other time, in the hopes of finishing it. :magnifying:
FeanorsCurse 7 Jan, 2023 @ 5:19am 
It was fun, but neither of us was able to place the top club card, any other worked, so we unfortunately could not finish the room.
Dora D. Explorer 1 Jan, 2023 @ 6:09pm 
Great map, not a fan of the black ball bug though... (take my pointss)
XLOOKUP 10 Dec, 2022 @ 8:50pm 
Months of people reporting various bugs which prevent you from completing the room. And yet, bugs remain. Had fun doing the puzzles that worked, but if you are looking to actually escape, you might want to try a room that can be completed. Looks like it is not being supported any longer so not expecting anything to be fixed.
Almeck 14 Aug, 2022 @ 6:42pm 
On my third attempt I was able to complete the room with no bugs. Not sure what was done different that prevented the bugs. Or caused the bugs in the first place, but I'm glad I was able to finish regardless
Almeck 14 Aug, 2022 @ 6:04pm 
I encountered two of the bugs as other people have. Encountered both the stuck key in the upside down the right drawer. Restarted and was able to grab it on the second playthrough only to get stuck on the black marble with no way to grab it. This would have been my favorite community room I have played so far if it had not been for these bugs. Still probably is, but I hope to see these fixed for future players.
Beotch PLS 9 Aug, 2022 @ 5:31pm 
bugged out in the upside down room for me as well. Keys didn't drop from the drawers and when i clicked on them I couldn't grab them either. Finally got it to work but had to play through the whole thing again and I have no idea if I did it differently but it made me angry.
Kayin_G 21 Jul, 2022 @ 6:14pm 
Bug? the key in the upside down room, by the gramophone is stuck. cant get it down. also, is there a hint to being able to move the middle block in the upside down room? the lamp is preventing it from moving
Chrizzo 20 Jul, 2022 @ 1:46pm 
Bugged, can't finish it. The blue marble and the black marble are impossible to grab.
yohon617 30 Jun, 2022 @ 12:15am 
Buggy on the blue marble and the color wheels/pipes , spent 3 hours on it and can't finish it because of the bugs.
[BNB] KiiTa 25 Jun, 2022 @ 1:05pm 
color wheel puzzle bugged, at one point we could only spin the two at the bottom. really frustratring as we've been on this whole level for more than one hour and an half. the rest is amazing but this bug is horrible
SupremeLordEnder 17 Jun, 2022 @ 5:32am 
I am genuinely stumped, I feel like I've looked everywhere, so I'll just ask: where can I find the green canister?
Koueh 4 Jun, 2022 @ 2:43am 
Second attempt and I managed to finish this time. I still had to grab things through the left drawer since nothing seems to open it? The puzzles in this room are great otherwise.
Koueh 22 May, 2022 @ 11:27pm 
This is a great room but I got stuck on bugs, drawer with a domino piece wont open, grabbed it through the table to pass that, the blue marble cant be grabbed and when I opened the back panel for the pipes the colour wheels broke and could no longer be turned. Gave up at that point. Will try again later.
Srax 22 May, 2022 @ 3:54am 
My game bugged and it wouldn't let me pick up the black marble :(
超级帅奇奇 19 May, 2022 @ 9:42am 
battleship 规则不懂。 battleship有BUG,棋子掉下去就拿不起来了。
AncientAlumina 17 May, 2022 @ 4:52am 
Had a bit of a bug where the key that drops from solving the planet puzzle disappeared or became unreachable?
ForestMagi 10 May, 2022 @ 11:49pm 
Not sure if I just keep getting really unlucky, if it's a bug, of if I'm just being obtuse, but I've tried three times now and the red stone key doesn't want to slot into the space between the two keys already in the frame . I can't think of anything else I can do, or any other items that might go there.
Psycho 4 Apr, 2022 @ 6:15pm 
The color wheel puzzle is still bugged. I was able to move them all before I got to the room where I could see what to do with them, but then once I tried solving the puzzle only the bottom 2 wheels will turn.
sdbpost 2 Apr, 2022 @ 6:50pm 
Thanks for fixing the jungle. I was able to finish from there. Great puzzles!
Leo  [author] 31 Mar, 2022 @ 3:48pm 
thank you for mentioning this! The room has been updated to fix these issues!
mrchibirobin 30 Mar, 2022 @ 12:59pm 
Brilliant room, but I think an update might have messed it up quite a bit.
The jungle room has an impassable wall that I only managed to get through by crouching and wiggling back and forth against the table for a while.
And also, the idea to break the case of cards is quite unintuitive. As was the one mislabeled crow statue which did not have a key.
But besides those qualms, real beautiful puzzle room!
sdbpost 16 Mar, 2022 @ 6:33pm 
Can anyone help with this question? Is there a way to move things like the chess pieces at normal walking or running speeds?
Tnozone 16 Mar, 2022 @ 12:08pm 
Yeah I can't reach the cabinet in that room. I literally cannot complete the puzzle.
Tnozone 16 Mar, 2022 @ 11:57am 
Bit of a problem. The folliage in the room behind the bookcase seems to be preventing me from entering much so I can't see the tags on the combination locks. Is that normal?
sdbpost 14 Mar, 2022 @ 10:14am 
Great puzzles so far, but totally stuck - can't find jupiter, open the two padlocks in the jungle room, do anything with the peg board (need colored pegs? don't see any), find the fourth golden bird, get to the space room. The problem seems to be no clues with any of these to proceed. There are two tags on the locks in the jungle room but can't get close enough to see what they show. And of course keys to two obvious doors. Only know about some of the above because of other comments here.
sdbpost 11 Mar, 2022 @ 5:23pm 
Are we supposed to be able to walk up to the skeleton? I've spent more time than I care to admit trying the knife and hatchet everywhere in there. Still can't see what's on the two tags on the 3 and 5 number locks. I've been trying to brute force with the solution of the domino puzzle, but no luck yet.
Bleueyes94 19 Feb, 2022 @ 7:29pm 
Couldn't even walking into the jungle room. Played with 2 other people and we all had the same issue. It was as if an invisible object was in front of the skeleton preventing us from going further into the room.
James 22 Jan, 2022 @ 9:31pm 
This really needs a walkthrough of hints
MsArcher 17 Jan, 2022 @ 6:59am 
Great room! The best I've played so far! The puzzles are sometimes quite difficult, but they are all solvable.
In my second run unfortunately I got stuck with the second to last key, it didn't open the door it's supposed to.
I could turn all the wheels (aim for the center). I solved it after the third run.

Two hints that might help:

1) Look at the owl
2) You don't have to count any persons or pictures
fait 16 Jan, 2022 @ 12:03am 
Really fun map overall! A decent difficulty with some challenges, but fun none the less once you get into the swing of things. I would definitely suggest creating a guide to help though, as we found ourselves stuck for quite a while on one or two of the puzzles. Completed with 2 people with no bug encounters.

A bit laggy if you like breaking objects.