Escape Team vs Escape Room Geeks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- Printable escape room missions
- Interactive app integration
- Collaborative puzzle solving
- Team building activities
- Custom mission editor
- Immersive audio narration
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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.
Escape Room Geeks
Enhance your escape room experience with this companion app. It provides hints, music, voice intros, and team progress tracking, making it ideal for playing along with children. This tool is designed to complement printable escape room kits and cannot be used independently.
- In-game hints
- Background music player
- Voice introduction playback
- Team progress monitoring
- Kid-friendly play integration
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This mobile app will make your escape room adventure much more fun and easy to follow. You’ll be able to get hints, play music, listen to voice intros and check the team’s progress, and most important to play along with your kids. Note: This app is additional tool to our printable escape room kits. The app can’t be played by itself!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Escape Room Geeks at none against Escape Team's 10. Escape Room Geeks also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Escape Team's advantage is update cadence (every 9 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (259 vs 2). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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
Both are free to download. Escape Team sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Escape Room Geeks asks for nothing beyond the download.
Escape Room Geeks holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Team has 259 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, Escape Room Geeks every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Escape Team | Escape Room Geeks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (259 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 74.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 259 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 14.5 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 298 MB | 178 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Hemmert UG (haftungsbeschränkt) | Escape Room Geeks LLC |
Customer experience
Escape Team
Escape Room Geeks
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
Escape Room Geeks
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Escape Team
- 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 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
Escape Room Geeks
No in-app purchases
Questions
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