Escape Simulator Adds Free VR Mode In Latest Update

Flatscreen game Escape Simulator has now added a new Virtual Reality mode in its latest update on April 3, 2024. Escape Simulator VR is free as long as you own Escape Simulator, so you can play this escape room game in Virtual Reality via PCVRor on the flatscreen as long as you have it.

Escape Simulator is a puzzle game that puts you, and some friends too with the game’s multiplayer, into a number of escape rooms with different themes and puzzles. You’ll have to solve these puzzles and use your intelligence and wit to escape from these rooms. There are even new rooms to escape from added as well for long time fans.

While Escape Simulator VR has not come to standalone platforms like the Quest yet, it’s a great addition to the puzzling genre on the PCVR platform. The following is a quote from the press release given by developer Pine Studio:

“The popular first-person escape puzzler Escape Simulator and all its additional content is now available in VR! Following the great success of the original Escape Simulator with more than 2 million players worldwide, developer Pine Studio rebuilt the game from scratch for the VR version. You can now experience it in VR with any set that supports Steam VR either by yourself or with up to 8 players (optimally 2-3). Don’t know anyone with a compatible VR headset? You can also team up players who aren’t using VR!

Even more so than the original version, Escape Simulator VR is a highly immersive and interactive gaming experience. Pick up and examine every item you can find as if you were in the room yourself and toss (literally!) everything you deem irrelevant. Supported locomotion types are controller-based movement, smooth move and teleporting, as is the full room-scale setting and snap-turning. It is also possible to play the game while seated.

Escape Simulator VR is included in the base game, meaning that everybody who already owns the game can now access the VR version for free! For those who have yet to purchase the game, this update will be their last chance to gain access to the vast amount of content it offers at a lower price. After April 14th, the price will increase in accordance with the impressive increase in content.

All 29 rooms from the base game are escapable in Escape Simulator VR, consisting of the tutorial room, the four original theme packs, the 2 Versus rooms, the 6 extra one-off rooms such as Leonardo’s Workshop. What’s more, all the original DLCs — the Steampunk, Wild West and Magic DLCs — are receiving similar updates. Everyone who already owns these can now also play them in VR at no additional cost! The same goes for the free Portal Escape Chamber and Among Us DLCs.

The VR update comes with good news for Escape Simulator’s passionate community and all its room-makers: besides the Pine Studio’s content, most of the 4.000 community-made rooms are now also available to enjoy in VR! With all these additional rooms at your disposal, there is more than enough content to keep you and your friends busy for a long time to come.”

— PINE STUDIO

For fans of the puzzle and escape room genres that experience Virtual Reality via PCVR, check out Escape Simulator VR for more puzzles and a lot of rooms to escape from alone or with your friends.

Escape Simulator VR Announced for PCVR

Developer Pine Studio has announced that they will be releasing a Virtual Reality version of hit Escape Room Game Escape Simulator, titled Escape Simulator VR via Steam. This game promises a whole new slew of Escape Room style gameplay for Virtual Reality gamers, much like the original Escape Simulator did for flatscreen gaming.

Escape Simulator VR Announcement - What Is It?

The original flatscreen Escape Simulator is a first-person co-op escape room puzzler that can be played in Singleplayer of Multiplayer with friends. In this game you and others explore a set of extremely interactable escape rooms. In Escape Simulator you solve these escape rooms by moving furniture and items, picking up and examining objects for clues, smashing pots and vases, and breaking locks! You can even modify your in game character with a collection of hats and outfits.

There is even community modding for new and player made escape rooms through Escape Simulator’s built in level designer. So anyone can make their own escape room to enjoy.

Since Escape Simulator’s release in October 2022, nearly 2 million puzzle and escape room fans from all over the world have played it. Avid players of Escape Simulator have been clamoring for a VR version ever since the game’s original release, and now developer Pine Studio has published a roadmap confirming just that. So now Escape Simulator is coming to VR!

All of the already existing rooms from Escape Simulator will be playable in Virtual Reality in Escape Simulator VR. Even previously released DLCs for Escape Simulator such as Steampunk and Wild West will be available. Custom made rooms made by players for the original game will also be available in Escape Simulator VR. So the over 3000 fan made escape room creations will also be available. That’s a lot of escape rooms!

Now with Escape Simulator VR you can enjoy these Escape Rooms in fully immersive Virtual Reality. Instead of just moving a mouse and hitting buttons, now you can use your actual hands to solve puzzels, interact with the room, and mess around with your friends. As always, VR makes everything more immersive and tactile. VR makes you feel like you’re actually there. Escape Rooms are no different.

Escape Simulator VR - How Do You Get It? When Is It Coming?

Escape Simulator VR will be available, just like Escape Simulator, via Steam for play through PCVR. A Quest 2 version of Escape Simulator VR has not been announced, but hopefully that will come some day. Right now you can wishlist Escape Simulator VR on the game’s Steam Store Page.

Pine Studio has also released a roadmap for Escape Simulator VR, which shows that a number of free studio created rooms, updates, and paid DLC are in the works for Escape Simulator VR, and the original game Escape Simulator.

If you’d like to see some gameplay of Escape Simulator VR, then the folks over at Pine Studio have released a trailer that you can watch on Youtube.

If you don’t want to wait and want to enjoy some fun VR Escape Room action right now, then check out our list of the 7 Best VR Escape Rooms on the Oculus Quest 2 (which are also available on PCVR).