Game Thoughts: Escape Academy

My partners and I absolutely love playing puzzles games together, especially mystery games that are either written or presented as “escape rooms in a box.” We recently played through Escape Academy’s main game via Xbox Game Pass and both available DLCs (“Escape from Anti-Escape Island” and “Escape from the Past,” both of which we purchased digitally).

This 1-2 player game tasks you with solving a series of increasingly difficult and dangerous puzzles to graduate as fully trained Escapists, but y...