Escape Simulator

Escape Simulator

The Escher Trap
39 Comments
Your mom has been 6 Apr, 2024 @ 5:11pm 
Wow, you put sooooo much work into it. I created one relatively small room and the editor is so not user-friendly that you need to use strange tricks all the time to make it work one way or another so it took me like 40 hours to finish it. A room your size needed probably 500 hours or so? Wow, but you did a great job, very good and complex from A to Z. Original and long. Thanks for that!
nicolebarber_81 26 Oct, 2023 @ 7:24pm 
Loved this game! I really liked how the puzzles were generally logic and/or able to be worked out within the puzzle itself.

The only one I needed help with was the mirror/chess room. I couldn't work out which elements were important to make it work, and I couldn't find the word with the mirror after getting the board sorted, either.

The rest of the puzzles were brilliant. Thanks very much!
a.biedermann 24 Sep, 2023 @ 1:12am 
Great Idea and grat concept. Some puzzles are great. ButtThe chess room wat not makeable due to i could't get close enough to see things properly in the crumbled room. Everything was to small. The mirror thing with the book wasn't seable for me even with the spoilers. And i couldn't move suddenly anymore during the keys and saves puzzle. I was somehow captured within a save door i guess. I had to quit the room unfortunately.
All in all a nice room, but it had its frustrating moments whinch could beimproved.
The King of the Sunday Funnies 3 Sep, 2023 @ 2:03pm 
Great room as usual!
Brian Kuhn 11 Aug, 2023 @ 12:35pm 
I'm still having performance issues with this room. PLEASE fix it!
Good Boy For Prez 17 Jul, 2023 @ 10:03pm 
This was really fun had alot of fun with my friend during our clear cant wait to see more of your work.
Brian Kuhn 8 Jul, 2023 @ 6:28pm 
This room has major performance issues. I couldn't even start working on the first puzzle before it started slowing down on me.
Noiro 7 Jul, 2023 @ 12:37am 
@LEO ran into an issue where you can remove a key and still walk into the area where keys change its layout, and ended up locking myself in
ForestMagi 22 Jun, 2023 @ 2:16am 
@mefisto, which passcode isn't flipping correctly in a mirror? If you comment on the walkthrough with the issue, I can update it as needed.
mefisto57001 17 Jun, 2023 @ 4:30pm 
it is awful that the round key counts as one and not as zero

also the mirror should be installed in the different axis to flip the pass-code properly, give your players a chance!
ForestMagi 26 May, 2023 @ 1:12am 
@ButchHero There is no time limit, nothing happens when the clock hits zero, just keep going.
ButchHero 24 May, 2023 @ 9:20pm 
The puzzles are very difficult, and the 60 minute timeline is absurdly impossible. I do not recommend :steamthumbsdown:
Skorby Dingus 22 May, 2023 @ 11:47pm 
I have no idea how intelligent you must be to have even put this together
Vizslaman 16 May, 2023 @ 12:56pm 
Atmosphere this is amazing, but the puzzles are way too hard with little context clues. The first puzzle feels like you have to brute force your way through, second puzzle is hard to see, feels like something needs to be done to either make it bigger or have more room to look around at the pieces. 3rd puzzle is where we gave up because again, there isnt enough room to really see everything. The creator has amazing potential, but I feel they need to have more work done on their puzzle making plans. I don't know if the remaining puzzles are better as me and my friend quit after puzzle 3.
ForestMagi 14 May, 2023 @ 6:18pm 
@RainyMelody The image for the Cube Construction puzzle labels all the Fragments by where they're found; which ones were you having trouble finding? Or is there a different puzzle you got stuck on?
DirectorColin 13 May, 2023 @ 4:51pm 
Absolutely the best room I have played on this game (and I have played A LOT)

I almost always felt like I had enough information for each puzzle (sometimes needing basic direction from walk though but for the most part I could figure out the gist of each puzzle).

But wow. The puzzles themselves, even when you knew what you needed to do were often extremely difficult but in a good way. Sometimes slightly frustrating but dang each one made me feel so accomplished. Masterpiece my friend.
YorkshaCat 11 May, 2023 @ 6:22am 
This is epic. Too difficult for me, but still epic. Well done.
RainyMelody26 9 May, 2023 @ 6:35pm 
I really wanted to like this.
The concept is cool and the aesthetics are nice, but I couldn't even get past the first puzzle. Walkthrough was no help, and I couldn't even find all the cubes. :steamfacepalm:
Kmangel 1 May, 2023 @ 10:03pm 
Honestly, one of the best escape rooms I've seen so far. Required a good amount of deduction to figure out the puzzles, and I enjoyed the length of the room. Looking forward to any future rooms from you. <3
LaKraken 28 Apr, 2023 @ 8:02pm 
Beautiful room, but I'll echo WiseOldHooter. The shadow puzzle was great. Once you figure out the how, it just takes a minute. The next several were not difficult to figure out, but actually doing it took a long time to execute. If a room is long, I want it to be because it took a long time to puzzle through, not a long time to move pieces where I already know they go. Granted, this might not be so bad with more players -- I played solo, so I was stuck looking back and forth a lot and trying to remember what something looked like.

Very, very minor thing to point out, that really has no bearing on the room: WOODWORK->WORKBOOK->BOOKSHOP is also valid, but it just adds a few extra steps and still gets you there.
WiseOldHooter 26 Apr, 2023 @ 3:19pm 
The room was pretty, but the puzzles were esoteric AF! Most of the puzzles are missing proper clues! The guide was a must which is never a good idea. Plus as everyone else has mentioned, too long! I appreciate you beautiful person for spending so much time making this room. But I express my appreciation in the form of honest criticism. A good puzzle is only missing an "aha" moment. The actual execution of the ideas shouldn't take very long. Some of these did. Plus... we've all seen at the very least a hundred of puzzles on this platform. Don't use stuff that has been done to death before! No more rotating plates or following lines! Just keep the ideas that surprise your player. Can the rest.
Bru 19 Apr, 2023 @ 8:28pm 
Just finished it on duo and it was long for us but gdamn our brains hurt
TooL 14 Apr, 2023 @ 3:20pm 
Really really good room, but man it took us aaages to finish
Motimoukari 12 Apr, 2023 @ 5:22pm 
Me and a friend are both getting 20-30fps unless we look straight up. Also you can take the the shaped keys out of the lock to lock yourself in the room
Leo  [author] 12 Apr, 2023 @ 5:49am 
Thank you! im glad you enjoyed my room! Whilst the tiles themselves can rotate, the rooms they are connected to do not - its just to help the blocks move around without getting stuck on each other ^^
ADeadM0053 12 Apr, 2023 @ 3:20am 
Fantastic work, couldn't believe how well done this was! My brain hurts after that, relatively of course. I don't know if it was intentional or not, but with the sliding room puzzles, I could not only slide them, but also rotate them if I clipped the edge of something while sliding. Regardless easily one of the best escape rooms I've ever seen
Zesty Mordant 11 Apr, 2023 @ 9:07pm 
Awesome puzzles! Really enjoyed the imaginative and mind blowing level geometry. Best of luck with the contest!
Leo  [author] 11 Apr, 2023 @ 8:00am 
thanks for the feedback! ive shrunk the hit boxes on the tiles for the word puzzle so they should work better now ^^
riley 9 Apr, 2023 @ 11:16pm 
this is a great room but the linked words puzzle almost made me quit because of how easy it is to step on a word you didn't mean to, its horribly annoying
Alice_inBlackParade 7 Apr, 2023 @ 11:18am 
I agree with ForestMagi, that puzzle was hard to navigate with little space.

I am super impressed with the room you created, very complex. I would love to be able to skip to some "checkpoints", because it takes a long time to get through everything, and it's hard to do it at once. Some of the puzzles really hurt my brain xD
wbac1801 6 Apr, 2023 @ 7:16pm 
I'm really amazed with how much you were able to plan and create in the short time period for the contest ! The fact that you managed to build multiple, large scale 3-D models of classic MC Escher models, while also creating a large amount of unique riddles and puzzles with a unique path of progression through out the game is a testament to your gift of creation!
ForestMagi 5 Apr, 2023 @ 9:36pm 
@Kayin_G It took me... basically since my last comment, but there's now a hint/walkthrough discussion. Hope it helps!
ForestMagi 5 Apr, 2023 @ 5:58pm 
@Leo That's so cute! <3
Kayin_G 5 Apr, 2023 @ 4:32pm 
a hint section would be helpful. this looks amazing, would love to finish it
Leo  [author] 5 Apr, 2023 @ 9:18am 
really glad you enjoyed it! ill be sure to fix that issue!

And yea, my three cats are a bit of an easter egg i put in all my rooms, just for fun - but thank you for helping them escape! Fun fact, but i learned how sound works for this room, so the meows you hear when you pick them up are actual recordings of them! :3
ForestMagi 5 Apr, 2023 @ 2:16am 
Great room! My one and only complaint is that there's such a small gap between the "linked words" floor puzzle and the barrier that slides out when you fail it that I got stuck 4 times by accidentally stepping too far right or left while exiting the puzzle area , which meant I had to exit out and restart from scratch.

I also collected 3 cats; not sure if there were more, or if they had any use, but at least I brought them out of Escher-world.
Leo  [author] 4 Apr, 2023 @ 3:47pm 
oh bit of an odd one, not sure whats causing that! ive adjusted the door animation, so it should give you enough room to be able to get in and out easily - if your still having problems let me know!
wbac1801 4 Apr, 2023 @ 3:42pm 
I too cannot enter the the room that opens with the circle key.
man_angry 3 Apr, 2023 @ 11:47pm 
is there some reason i cant enter the shadow puzzle room even when i have place the circle key?