Escape Room Board Games, Without the Box
Download the PDF, print it on a normal home printer and solve it around a table. No box, shipping, or waiting. Every game plays for 1 to 4 players and comes with a free companion app for hints and answers.
Which game should I start with?
New to this? Start with Episode 1: Legacy. It is free. It is the complete first chapter rather than a demo. Thirteen pages, 1 to 2 hours, 1 to 4 players.
Want one evening, start to finish? Take The Green Star. A standalone case set in Maine in 1953, so it needs no prior episodes. Twelve pages, 90 to 120 minutes.
Want the whole story? The complete five-episode bundle is $14.99. Six to twelve hours of Victorian horror across five connected episodes. Any three episodes bought separately cost $14.97, so if you expect to play more than one, the bundle is the obvious choice.
Why does Episode 1 appear twice? The free edition uses the original artwork. The Hand-Drawn Edition is the same story and puzzles with new pencil illustrations throughout.
Every game is rated 14 and up and plays for 1 to 4 players. It works well solo and includes both A4 and US Letter in the download.
What you need to play
- A home printer. Every game is designed to work in black and white, so a mono printer is fine.
- A4 or US Letter paper. Both sizes are in every download, so it does not matter which you use.
- Scissors and a pen. Some episodes also use a ruler.
- A phone, tablet, or computer for the companion app. It runs in the browser and there is nothing to install. You use it to check answers and get hints, not to play.
That is the whole list. No extra components to buy. Nothing arrives in the post.
Common Questions
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You download it and print it the same evening, so there is no shipping and nothing to wait for. The puzzles are the same hands-on paper work you get in a box: combining, folding and lining pieces up to read what they hide. The differences are price, speed and being able to try a full game free before you spend anything.
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The Green Star is standalone and needs no prior knowledge. The five Langton Manor episodes tell one continuous story and are best played in order, though each opens with a recap so you can join partway through.
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All of them. Every game is built for 1 to 4 players and solo play is common. The companion app handles hints and answer checking, so nobody has to sit out as game master.
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No. The game itself is paper. You cut, fold and lay the printed pages out on a table. That is where every puzzle is solved. The app sits to one side and does the jobs a game master would: it checks your answers, gives graded hints when you are stuck and carries parts of the story forward. It runs in any browser with nothing to install. It saves your progress so you can stop and come back.