Escape Academy: Escape From the Past (2023) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Escape Academy: Escape From the Past

Visit the Escape Academy of yesteryear in Escape from the Past. This prequel puts players in control of Sandra Solange and Eel Barnes all the way back when they began their journey as students at the Academy!…

77 19 June 2023

What Escape Academy: Escape From the Past is

Escape Academy: Escape From the Past was released in 2023. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Visit the Escape Academy of yesteryear in Escape from the Past. This prequel puts players in control of Sandra Solange and Eel Barnes all the way back when they began their journey as students at the Academy! After a harrowing "accident" at an Academy sporting event nearly results in the death of Headmaster Horatio Windsor, he becomes certain that one of his faculty members is trying to MURDER HIM! Convinced that the murderer has eyes everywhere, he enlists Sandra and Eel as his undercover agents to investigate each of the suspected teachers. As the "accidents" keep piling up, players must successfully navigate (and survive!) five, all new rooms while piecing together clues to deduce the…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.

How it was received

Escape Academy: Escape From the Past holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 56% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2023 averaged 76, so it scored about average for its year.

What it launched against

Escape Academy: Escape From the Past launched on 19 June 2023, within three weeks of Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver and System Shock. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 3 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Diablo IV, Final Fantasy XVI, Dave the Diver, System Shock.

Cheats and codes

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