Comparison

Escape Team vs Escape From Caleb's Room

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

Escape From Caleb's Room

Solve intricate puzzles in a hand-drawn 2D environment to escape a mysterious room. This adventure game offers challenging enigmas and an immersive soundtrack. Hints are available if you get stuck.

Highlights
  • Hand-drawn 2D graphics
  • Challenging puzzles
  • Immersive soundtrack
  • Hint system
  • Unlockable premium room
Features
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Escape From Caleb's Room is the sequel to "Escape From Benjamin's Room", a unique 2D hand-drawn puzzle adventure that will put your brain to work. You're trapped in a new room from which another man tried to escape. Will you find a way out? Crack challenging puzzles to escape the room and gain your freedom. A UNIQUE 2D HAND-DRAWN ADVENTURE Think outside the box to solve all the puzzles in the room, click on any game objects to interact, and pay attention to the details IMMERSIVE SOUNDTRACK (by Frank Eno) Put your headphones on to get immersed in this incredible escape room game, you'll enjoy this adventure at best! TWO ROOMS The Original room (playable for free) and an Alternative room with the same furniture but different enigmas to solve (unlockable with a single Premium In-App Purchase) GUARANTEED FUN If you enjoy solving logic problems and playing adventures like escape rooms or puzzle games, you will enjoy this adventure and put your brain to work. HINTS In case you get stuck on solving some riddle, click the bulb button to get a hint that will help you solve the current enigma and escape the room. If you seriously get stuck instead, you can still contact the developer at https://xsgames.co, I'll be glad to help! ------------------------------------------------ XSGames is an independent escape room video games startup from Italy Find out more at https://xsgames.co Follow @xsgames_ on both X and Instagram

Screenshots

Escape Team4 screens
Escape From Caleb's Room4 screens

Verdict

The call

Escape Team and Escape From Caleb's Room both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 74% of Escape Team's written reviews are positive against 50% of Escape From Caleb's Room's. Escape Team also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks) and ratings volume (258 vs 24). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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

Both are free to download. Escape Team sells 11 one-off in-app purchases and Escape From Caleb's Room sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 Escape From Caleb's Room. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Escape Team has 258 ratings behind it against 24, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 74% of Escape Team's written reviews are positive against 50% of Escape From Caleb's Room's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, Escape From Caleb's Room every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Escape Team versus Escape From Caleb's Room: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape TeamEscape From Caleb's Room
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (258 ratings) — better4.6 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings258 — better24
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 5 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB160 MB
Age rating12+9+
DeveloperHemmert UG (haftungsbeschränkt)XSGames

Customer experience

Escape Team

All ratings258 ratings
Positive92.2%
Neutral1.9%
Negative5.8%
Written reviews82 reviews
Positive74.4%
Neutral7.3%
Negative18.3%

Escape From Caleb's Room

All ratings24 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral4.2%
Negative4.2%
Written reviews16 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative25.0%

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 From Caleb's Room

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

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
3 purchases

Escape From Caleb's Room

One-time3
  • Premium$1.99
  • Premium + Coffee$3.99
  • Premium + Love$6.99

Questions

Is Escape Team free?
Escape Team is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Escape From Caleb's Room free?
Escape From Caleb's Room is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Escape Team or Escape From Caleb's Room?
Escape Team is rated higher. Escape Team averages 4.7 out of 5 from 258 ratings, while Escape From Caleb's Room averages 4.6 from 24 ratings.
Do Escape Team or Escape From Caleb's Room have ads?
Neither Escape Team nor Escape From Caleb's Room shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Escape Team or Escape From Caleb's Room?
Escape Team ships an update every 9 days, and Escape From Caleb's Room every 5 weeks. Most recently, Escape Team was updated on September 18, 2026 and Escape From Caleb's Room on September 24, 2026.

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