Comparison

Escape Team vs Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Escape Team

Transform your home into an escape room with printable missions and an interactive app. Solve puzzles, defuse bombs, and rescue friends in exciting scenarios. Perfect for team building, date nights, or family fun.

Highlights
  • Printable escape room missions
  • Interactive app integration
  • Collaborative puzzle solving
  • Team building activities
  • Custom mission editor
  • Immersive audio narration
Features
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Looking to create an escape room at home? With Escape Team, you‘ll be ready in minutes! 1. Print your mission. 2. Get the app. 3. Gather your friends - you‘re going to need them! Escape Team is a printable adventure, ready to take place in your living room. With Escape Team, the room will become the center stage of bomb defusals, elevator rescues and plenty of other exciting missions. It’s great for team building: exit the game and you‘ll be right where you left off - but you will have been brought a bit closer together. Do you enjoy co-op play? As a date night game or family activity, it provides a rich and immersive, collaborative experience. Work together to solve the puzzles in time. An adventure game to turn screen time into meaningful play together - with friends, family, and coworkers. Are you planning to make your own DIY escape room at home? Enter the Escape Team Mission Editor: The free Escape Team Mission Editor allows you to make Escape Team the game master of your own, custom escape room - use our free, pre-made DIY kit as a starting point, define the time limit of your room, along puzzle solutions and hints. To increase the immersion, you can even include your own MP3 recordings to be played upon the mission‘s beginning, finish, and after solving each phase. —————— • A live escape game experience • Designed for 2-4 players • Fast-paced audio narration and a thrilling soundtrack • FREE: Training Mission and Mission 1: »Central Station« • Missions 2-9 are available as In-App Purchases • Includes a (forever free) mission editor to create your own missions – for fun, business or education. Are you ready? We've got no time to lose – download your missions here: https://www.escape-team.com Good luck. To all of us.

About

Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

Work with friends to defuse a bomb by verbally communicating instructions from a manual. Solve challenging, procedurally generated puzzles under a time limit. This is a local multiplayer party game that tests communication and puzzle-solving skills.

Highlights
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Procedurally generated bombs
  • Local multiplayer party game
  • Mobile portability
  • One copy needed
  • Mission and Free Play modes
Features
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You’re alone in a room with a bomb. Your friends, the “Experts”, have the manual needed to defuse it. But there’s a catch: the Experts can’t see the bomb, so everyone will need to talk it out – fast! Rounds are fast-paced, tense, occasionally silly, and almost always loud. Whether it’s defusing a bomb or deciphering information from the manual, everyone has a crucial role to play. Put your puzzle-solving and communication skills to the test as you and your friends race to defuse bombs while attempting to communicate quickly before time runs out! Features • Challenging puzzles – Test the limits of your communication skills… and friendships? • A different bomb every time – Procedurally generated puzzles keep the action fresh. • A pocket party game for two or more local players – Bring it to your next game night, party, or event to play with friends. • Mobile portability – Shield your screen from the prying eyes of your Experts. • Only one copy of the game needed – Have friends join in as “Experts” with their own device. Share the Defusal Manual using AirDrop or visit bombmanual.com • In-person, multiplayer only – A team game intended for players in the same physical space. Online play is not supported. • Mission and Free Play Modes – Missions increase in difficulty as players face new modules and constraints are introduced. Unlock Freeplay Mode to set your own pace by creating custom bombs. Bomb Defusal Manual can be printed or viewed for free at www.bombmanual.com

Screenshots

Escape Team4 screens
Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Escape Team at Free against Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes's $9.99. Escape Team also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 8 months) and ratings volume (259 vs 85). Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and chart position (#21 vs unranked). On rating, review sentiment, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Escape Team is free to download; Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes costs $9.99 up front. Escape Team sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Escape Team against 4.6 for Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 259 and 85 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Escape Team's written reviews are positive against 81% of Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes every 8 months. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Escape Team versus Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape TeamKeep Talking & Nobody Explodes
PriceFree — better$9.99
Rating4.7 (259 ratings) — better4.6 (85 ratings)
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews80.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings259 — better85
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 8 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank—#21 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.011.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB210 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperHemmert UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Steel Crate Games

Customer experience

Escape Team

All ratings259 ratings
Positive92.3%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative18.3%

Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

All ratings85 ratings
Positive87.1%
Neutral7.1%
Negative5.9%
Written reviews62 reviews
Positive80.6%
Neutral8.1%
Negative11.3%

User reviews

Escape Team

From 259 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🎮 Excellent puzzle design and variety
  • 👥 Great for family and team building activities
  • 💰 Reasonable pricing compared to board games
  • ⏱️ Timer creates authentic escape room tension
  • 🖨️ Printable materials allow replayability

Room to improve

  • ⏰ Timer causes unnecessary stress for some players
  • 🐛 Audio/sound issues on iPhone devices
  • 💸 Unexpected double-charging for Groupon purchases
  • 🔐 Redemption code problems and validation issues
  • 📖 Weak narrative and lack of thematic cohesion

Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

From 85 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 👍 Highly fun and engaging
  • 🤝 Great for parties and groups
  • 💰 Worth the price
  • 🤯 Intense and adrenaline-inducing
  • 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Strengthens friendships

Room to improve

  • 🗣️ Can be awkward in public
  • ⚫ Screen sometimes goes black
  • 🔊 No sound on iPad without headphones
  • ❓ Morse code difficult to understand
  • 🐛 Buggy in certain modules

Bugs and requests

Escape Team

Reported bugs

10 issues
  • No sound on iPhone (works on iPad/Android)
  • App crashes when entering answers
  • App crashes when requesting clues
  • Redemption codes not working properly
  • Training mission code accepted but progress stuck
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  • App persists on phone after uninstall
  • Website unreachable on multiple platforms
  • Double charging when using Groupon codes
  • Code only works once on some devices
  • Buttons unresponsive or slow to react

Requested features

9 requests
  • Option to disable or extend timer
  • More missions and scenarios
  • Improved hint system with faster unlocking
  • Better narrative integration with puzzles
  • More diverse themes beyond bomb defusal
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  • Ability to purchase hints with time sacrifice
  • Better story progression and thematic connection
  • Native English voice acting
  • More detailed beginner instructions

Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • Screen sometimes goes black
  • No sound on iPad without headphones
  • Complicated wires module issues
  • Morse code difficult to understand
  • Cut wire instruction bug
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  • Turkish language verification code issue
  • Fixed back button on mobile
  • Cut buttons next to wires on mobile

Requested features

8 requests
  • More levels
  • Add sound to Morse code
  • Visual suspense for bomb explosion
  • More languages
  • Add mods for iPad/Apple phones
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  • Update for complicated wires module
  • Add voice update to mobile version
  • More bomb types and modules

In-app purchases

11 purchases

Escape Team

One-time11
  • Mission 2: Terminal$2.99
  • Mission 3: Elevator$2.99
  • Mission 4: Rollercoaster$2.99
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  • Mission 5: Subway$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 6$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 7$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 8$2.99
  • Escape Team: Mission 9$2.99
  • Escape Team Mission Pack I$8.99
  • Escape Team: Mission Pack II$8.99
  • Escape Team Mission Pack I+II$15.99
None

Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escape Team free?
Escape Team is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes free?
Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes costs $9.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Escape Team or Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes?
Escape Team is rated higher. Escape Team averages 4.7 out of 5 from 259 ratings, while Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes averages 4.6 from 85 ratings.
Do Escape Team or Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes have ads?
Neither Escape Team nor Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Escape Team or Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes?
Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, and Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes every 8 months. Most recently, Escape Team was updated on October 15, 2026 and Keep Talking & Nobody Explodes on October 19, 2026.

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