Comparison

Escape Team vs Aetheron

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

Aetheron

A social deduction thriller where players race to secure systems or sabotage a mission. Navigate lies and alliances in quick, offline sessions with unique futuristic roles and abilities. Perfect for gatherings and strategy gaming.

Highlights
  • Social deduction gameplay
  • Local multiplayer (5-10 players)
  • Offline play
  • Quick 20-30 minute sessions
  • Futuristic roles and abilities
  • No account or ads required
Features
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AETHERON: INFILTRATION DETECTED Who can you trust when the future of Aetheron hangs in the balance? In this gripping social deduction thriller, corporate operatives race against time to secure critical systems while infiltrators work from within to sabotage the mission. Every decision matters. Every ally is suspect. GAME HIGHLIGHTS - SOCIAL DEDUCTION MASTERY: Navigate webs of lies, alliances, and betrayal - LOCAL MULTIPLAYER: 5-10 players share one device - perfect for gatherings - QUICK SESSIONS: Intense 20-30 minute games that keep everyone engaged - NO INTERNET NEEDED: Play anywhere - planes, camps, game nights FUTURISTIC ROLES AND ABILITIES Each player receives unique powers in this cyberpunk world: - Vision: Neural enhancement reveals hidden enemies - Sentinal: Advanced tech detects the Vision operative - Shadow: Cloaking abilities hide from enemy detection - Phantom: Master of disguise, appears as Vision to others - Plus specialized roles that change every game PRIVACY CHAMPIONS Your privacy matters. Aetheron collects ZERO data, requires no accounts, has no ads, and works completely offline. Pure strategy gaming without compromise. PERFECT FOR Game nights, parties, team building, travel, family gatherings, strategy gaming groups. Experience the tension of never knowing who's on your side. Download Aetheron and discover the future of social deduction gaming. Will you secure the facility, or will infiltrators compromise everything? The choice - and the trust - is yours.

Screenshots

Escape Team4 screens
Aetheron4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Escape Team at Free against Aetheron's $4.99. Escape Team also leads on ratings volume (259 vs 1). Aetheron's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 11) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Escape Team is free to download; Aetheron costs $4.99 up front. Escape Team sells 11 one-off in-app purchases. Aetheron asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Aetheron 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 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Escape Team versus Aetheron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterEscape TeamAetheron
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.7 (259 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews74.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings259 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS12.012.0
Further details — not scored
Size100 MB26 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperHemmert UG (haftungsbeschränkt)John McWhirter

Customer experience

Escape Team

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

Aetheron

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Aetheron

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
None

Aetheron

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Escape Team free?
Escape Team is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Aetheron free?
Aetheron costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Escape Team or Aetheron?
Aetheron is rated higher. Escape Team averages 4.7 out of 5 from 259 ratings, while Aetheron averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Escape Team or Aetheron have ads?
Neither Escape Team nor Aetheron shows ads.

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