Twelve Escape Room Board Games you should play!

I love escape rooms, but sometimes it’s hard to get your friends together to do a physical escape room. Luckily, there are tons of escape room board games that you can play at home when you’re wanting to do something similar to an escape room! Here are some of the ones I’ve played, broken out by category based on what you like in an escape room: puzzles, story, immersion, physical locks, and family fun.

~ GAMES MENTIONED ~
Puzzle

Story

Immersion

Physical Locks

Family Fun

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----- VIDEO CHAPTERS -----
Intro: 0:00
Puzzle: 1:16
Puzzle - Exit: The Game: 1:27
Puzzle - The Curious Elevator/Stairs of Mr. Hincks: 2:20
Puzzle - Deckscape: 2:49
Story: 3:08
Story - Adventure Games: 3:19
Story - echoes: 3:55
Story - Escape Tales: 4:23
Immersion: 4:49
Immersion - Box One: 4:52
Physical Locks: 5:16
Physical Locks - Escape Room in a Box: 5:36
Physical Locks - The Tale of Ord: 6:12
Family Fun: 6:24
Family Fun - Unlock!: 6:33
Family Fun - Coded Chronicles: 7:41
Family Fun - Escape Room: The Game: 8:20
So many more!: 9:06

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[BoardGameBlitz]

Do you love escape rooms? What’s your favorite escape room board game you’ve played?

[GrimUpNorth_yt]

I was looking for a board game for my partner who loves escape rooms and I stumbled across this.

Honestly you put a smile on my face. It's always nice to see someone talking with enthusiasm about something they're really into.

Thanks for the recommendations.

[zommit]

You really need to try the mystery agency games from the UK. 4 in the series, very high quality fun and great story lines with good quality puzzles.

[sophaletto]

Love this list! So many I never knew of. We like the Unlock series the best for their creativity around the puzzles and the usage of the app and music helps make it more immersive.

[BenDaresAll]

Exit only has 10 puzzles per game (since there's only 10 on the decoder). Unlock and Deckscape have almost twice as many puzzles in them.

[BroPortal]

Great overview, and you covered a lot of content with little wasted time. Awesome.

[glasscube]

Great list! I recommend Crimes & Capers as well. Such a great underrated series of games. Professor Puzzle games are also great except for a couple of them that were way too vague with the puzzles.

[kayf]

Great video! Also a huge fan of escape room board games. I liked your comment re “Mystery House” on your spreadsheet 😂 (I feel the same way about it).

Another one that I’ve enjoyed is Holiday Hijincks and 50 Clues. They are both similar to Unlock in that there are a deck of cards. 50 Clues is a bit gruesome and may not be everyone’s cup of tea while the Holiday Hijincks one are family friendly and great for the holidays!

[godcan]

Thank you so much hard to find content on this stuff!!

[bavideomaker]

Thank you for posting this. Great overview.

[BenDaresAll]

Gasp! Deckscape is my favorite! Escape from Alcatraz has a great story with a mystery. Try it! Test Time is a bit by the numbers.

[christineearl]

I absolutely loved Box 1! I wish he would make more. It was so well thought out.

[hbparanhos]

Just found you today! Hello from Portugal 👋You are great, thanks for the content! It seems you have so much fun playing but also doing this videos. I really want to try Box One but with the shipping is really really expensive. I will give it a go on the other ones.

[eVanDiesel]

I've played quite a few Unlock games, and most of the Holiday Hijinks games. And then that Scooby-Doo Coded Chronicles one. Oh, and i did a couple of Deckscape games, but they were just OK. I do have the Exit Advent Calendar, gonna try that in December!

If I had more time, I'd try more of them!!!

[kimoro]

this is such a great overview! thank you Ambie 😍
I absolutely love the Unlock! games, I like playing them solo and love the music… great stress relief for me. I have also been loving The Emerald Flame and A Light in the Mist (both by the Tales of Ord designer).
my partner absolutely loved The Initiative! have you tried that one? it’s more of a family puzzle board game than an escape room game but it feels similar to me!

[luboss]

I am kinda more on detective story games than puzzles and I totally love Echoes series. I also played Unlock! Alice in Wonderland and while writing this comment I am currently playing my first Exit game. After this video watched I must definitely try Adventure games. Thanks for video.

[somefishhere]

MicroMacro and Sherlock should go in the Newspaper-Style detective deduction style of escape room games!