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Help Emy escape a speeding train by solving timed puzzles on PC while a partner shares clues through a companion app.
Released 31 Aug 2023
Escape a Trapped Train
Guide Emy by Phone
Trade Clues Across Screens
How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.
Developed by Breakfirst Games · Published by Maximum Entertainment, Breakfirst Games
Emy wakes trapped aboard a speeding train and must reach the locomotive’s brake lever to stop it. A second player, as her brother Johann, supports her with information from a companion app.
The PC player explores each carriage, examines its surroundings, and interacts with its puzzles. The app player consults separate information and communicates clues, so progress depends on describing and interpreting what each person can see.
Carriages feature timed challenges involving observation, logic, coordination, and listening. Players work through a sequence of puzzle rooms toward the locomotive, with collected coins usable to request hints.
Players who enjoyed the game often praise its varied, engaging escape-room puzzles and the teamwork involved in sharing clues across two different roles. Several say the communication challenge makes even straightforward puzzles more involving. Others find the puzzles unclear or illogical, and some report that the app-based role can feel more like relaying information than solving puzzles.
2 players, 2 ways to play.
First player on PC embodies the character trapped in the train, exploring and playing with the environment.
Second player will use the dedicated free companion app* to get various information and try to understand how to help the first player and be able to escape from this unfortunate travel…
*Read more on our website or get the free How 2 Escape Companion App on iOs and Android.
Each wagon is timed in different ways that you’ll discover. Running out of time means defeat.
The longer you wait, the more difficult it is to see clearly...
Both players will need to interact with each other and focus on their sense. Puzzles will require logic, coordination, observation and listening but most of all: communication!
No time to chitchat. Get out of the trapped train. Every second is counted.
Emy wakes up, trapped in a speeding train filled with traps and enigmatic puzzles. Her only way out? Reach the brake lever of the locomotive to stop the train. Her brother, Johann, on the other end of the phone, is the sole possessor of information that will aid Emy in navigating through the various carriages and escaping from this train. Will you be able to save Emy in time?
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 26 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
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| Website | Official website |
