Escape Academy Walkthrough: Puzzle Solutions, DLC Rooms, and 100% Cleanup

Escape Academy is at its best when you can still do some of the deduction yourself, so this walkthrough is built as a practical reference rather than a wall of copied room text. Use the quick tables when you only need the next code, then open the room notes when a puzzle chain is unclear. The guide covers the base campaign, the Escape from Anti-Escape Island DLC rooms supplied in the reference set, the Old Rivals room from Escape from the Past, and achievement cleanup notes that are safe to use before you lock yourself out of an easy replay route.

How to Use This Walkthrough#

• For a first clear: read the room objective and the next one or two key answers only. The game is built around environmental clue chains, and spoiling an entire room at once can make it feel smaller than it is.
• For A+ cleanup: replay rooms after learning the route, avoid hints, and keep a small note of multi-part answers before starting a timed room.
• For achievements: talk to campus characters between rooms, read newspapers as you go, and keep the co-op achievements for a planned second-controller or online session.
• For DLC: Anti-Escape Island is covered from the supplied room references. For Escape from the Past, only Old Rivals had a detailed supplied walkthrough, so the later Escape from the Past rooms are not invented here.

Before You Start: Missables and Save Advice#

There is no complicated save-scumming route required for the main story, because rooms can be replayed. The main thing to protect is cleanup efficiency. If you want a smooth completion run, make a habit of checking the campus between rooms, because the conversation and newspaper achievements are easiest when you treat them as a routine instead of a final scavenger hunt.

Base Campaign Fast Solution Index#

This table is the short version. It is deliberately compact, so use it when you already know where the puzzle is and only need the answer.

Introductions / Prologue#

The opening escape teaches the game’s habit of hiding direct answers in plain sight. Treat every prop with a label as part of a sentence, not just decoration.

1. Use the broken clock note as the first combination. Pretend the time is 12:30, so the chest code is 1230.
2. Match the clue colors to the letters on the goblets. The safe word is FREE.
3. Use the T-shirt direction pattern for the TV remote: Up, Right, Down, Up, Right.
4. Decode the TV letter groups with the wall poster, then scan the flyers in this order: JEB, ALLIE B’S, EEL.
5. Use the Key of Lies and follow the final doors to leave for the train.

The Entrance Exam#

Your goal is to discover the Headmaster’s full name. The room has several name fragments, and each one is gated behind a different kind of clue.

For Musical Prodigy, play Mary Had a Little Lamb on the piano in these groups: E-D-C-D, then E-E-E, then D-D-D, then E-G-G, then E-D-C-D, then E-E-E-E, then D-D-E-D-C. A shorter community notation writes the same melody more tightly, but the important part is the note order.

Under Pressure#

The Thresher is the first big difficulty spike because the room floods upward and the timer carries forward. Do not try to admire the scenery on a replay. Grab tools, solve the floor, climb, and keep each password in order for the final panel.

For Thresher Rusher, memorize only the fast route: 123 style tool grab, FEAR, 3-4-6, WILL, 510, SLOW, YOUR, MIND, final sentence. The fewer times you open your inventory to reread notes, the more forgiving the run becomes.

Escape Artist#

This room is longer than it looks because it keeps moving you from color logic to spatial art puzzles. The safest approach is to solve each gallery section completely before leaving it.

• Place the still-life items on the table. The visible number becomes 139.
• Use anti-invisible ink to reveal the color path. The door colors are Red, Purple, Yellow, Green.
• Assemble the shredded Open Sesame painting, then copy the arrow route: Right, Up, Down, Down, Right, Left, Right.
• For the canvas-symbol lock, press the first symbol in row one, the last in row two, and the first in row three.
• For the face door, imitate the eyes of the first sculpture, eyebrows of the third, and mouth of the sixth.
• Use numbered keys by addition, then set statue directions Left, Right, Left, Right.
• For the beheaded-statue check, mark the first, third, and fifth statues.
• For the height order, use: cowboy hat, bald figure, girl with glasses, guy with glasses, girl with long hair.

The Breakout#

The Breakout is really a remote-support puzzle. Keep the map, radio code sheet, and monitors separate in your head. Most mistakes happen when players answer a radio question with map information from the wrong deck.

The Tea Kettle#

The Greenhouse room is a sequence of botany-flavored locks. The biggest trap is carrying too many visual clues at once. Finish the gate, tool wall, seed container, tile cabinet, plant chamber, and butterfly lock as separate stages.

• Use the tree carving and necklace to open the house gate with A-B-K-Z.
• Set the tool wall to wrench, brush, brush, plumber wrench, plumber wrench, brush, brush, wrench. Some sources compress the two plumber-wrench slots differently in text, so use the cup silhouettes in the room as the final visual check.
• For the seed container, combine microscope and scale information into GTT-TAG.
• Arrange the plant display D-C-A-B-E.
• Use the butterfly clue as B-A-D-B-E-E. The extracted text around the color list is compressed, so follow the letter order against the butterflies if a color count looks off.

Trial By Taste#

Trial By Taste starts like a small kitchen gag and turns into a poison-antidote chain. If you are replaying for grade, ignore flavor props unless they directly connect to a lock.

Lab Rat#

Lab Rat has two different tempos: the early room is a search-and-repair puzzle, while the second half is a password and sequence gauntlet. Keep the rat, the power pipes, and the terminal questions separate.

1. Solve the vending machine as C4, use the donut to bait the rat, then cage it.
2. Repair the pipes to restore power.
3. For the terminal monitor pattern, enter Square, Circle, Square, Triangle, Circle.
4. Answer the security questions with Dell, Ilah, Sprocket.
5. Use SAFER for the laser password.
6. Quanty model 13 converts to binary 1101.
7. For the server switches, press E-B-D-H-F-G-C-R.

For Groovin’, Baby!, the readable achievement guide cross-checks the Lab Rat co-op route around C4, the monitor pattern, SAFER, and 1101. Do it in co-op or with a second controller rather than trying to trigger it in a solo run.

The Rival Room#

The Rival Room is a skill check for everything the game has taught you: perspective, weights, rotation, and multi-step safe logic. Your rival adds pressure, but the real enemy is losing your place in the safe chain.

Ballista, Busts, and Weights

• Place the large gear on the lower-left peg, the small gear between the darker gears, and the medium gear on the rightmost peg.
• The shared-visible busts are Max, Timmy, and Wyatt.
• The weight values are Red 1 kg, Blue 2 kg, Green 3 kg, Orange 4 kg, White 5 kg.
• For the target bars: 7 kg uses Red in x1 and Blue in x3; 9 kg uses Green in x3; 14 kg uses Orange in x1 and White in x2.

Spin Specialist Route

To solve the rotating chambers in seven rotations, use this route:

1. Press right purple.
2. Press right green.
3. Enter and press Circle, Spade, and Club.
4. Press right green.
5. Press right purple, then press Triangle.
6. Press left green, then press Square and Diamond.
7. Press right orange, then press Heart.

Double-Sided Safe

Tea ‘N Tea#

Tea ‘N Tea is a bomb room, so work methodically. You need both van keys, several chemical ingredients, a dictionary, the map, and the projector clue before cutting wires.

Where There’s Smoke#

The library room is less about speed and more about orientation. Several answers depend on rotating your interpretation: upside-down text, altered globe letters, mirror-like skulls, and tile placement.

• Turn the word THROUGH upside down in the wall phrase to reveal the secret door.
• Use the direction tablets for the box: Right, Right, Up, Left, Down, Up, Left, Left.
• The framed-paper chest code is 2257.
• The globe room answer is Sun, Air, Fire.
• For the upside-down skull chest, enter 6869 from your current view.
• Place the four secret-door tiles as top-left anvil, top-right lion, bottom-left bird, bottom-right scale.

The Confrontation#

This is short, but it matters for Dead-Volt. Use this move sequence on the battery lock:

Right to middle, left to right, left to middle, right to left, middle to right, right to left, left to middle, right to left, middle to right.

After the door opens, unplug Eel, take the keycard, and use it on the slot.

What Lies Below#

The final room tests whether you can reuse a tool across several chambers. Keep the test sheet, Headmaster’s pin, charged battery, and water tank D, because the room expects you to bring answers back into Quanty’s core.

The important logic is that Quanty asks for opposites and transformations, not just direct transcription. STOP is the opposite of start, WIPE comes from rotating the highlighted M into W, REFRESH comes from numbered placement, UNDO comes from letter shifts, and SHUT DOWN is the opposite of the derived phrase open up.

Escape from Anti-Escape Island DLC#

The supplied DLC references cover five Anti-Escape Island rooms. Some visual puzzle solutions were present as images in the source pages and did not fully extract as text, so those spots are marked as visual-check steps instead of pretending the image-only data was readable.

Take To The Skies

A Juicy Discovery

Ventilation Infiltration

• Yellow-cable box: 5-4-7.
• Table/computer password: CONTROLS.
• Blue-cable room password: 2-6-5.
• Elevator switches: turn off everything except the call button. The readable text gives a quick route of switch 6, then switch 5.
• Final ID cards: Yusuf, Violette, Hachiro.

The Experiment

• Middle turret passwords: TONIGHT and FORGIVE.
• First repair wheels: top 7×3 / 3×2, middle 5×3 / 4×1, bottom 6×4.
• Third turret memory buttons: alpha, pi, eta.
• The right door, left door, second turret antenna pattern, and tile repair are visual solutions in the captured reference. Use the in-room review images for those rather than relying on a text-only transcription.

Into The Capture Dimension

Escape from the Past: Old Rivals#

The supplied detailed Escape from the Past source covers Old Rivals, the first room of that DLC. A hub page confirms additional rooms exist, but without supplied detailed pages I am keeping this section limited to Old Rivals.

Fire the Cannon

Hang the oversized cards by suit: Jack of Hearts, Queen of Spades, King of Diamonds, Ace of Clubs. The hidden message tells you to ignore the odds, so use the even cannon code 2-8-4-8.

Dress the Mascots

Dice, Safe, and Rescue

• First gear-die route: counterclockwise 3, clockwise 7, counterclockwise 2.
• Second gear-die route: counterclockwise 4, clockwise 5, counterclockwise 1, clockwise 2, counterclockwise 1, clockwise 2, counterclockwise 2, clockwise 2, counterclockwise 1.
• Roll both dice to 1.
• Safe code from upside-down HELLO: 07734.
• Shape button presses: black 4, white 6, black 3, white 4.
• Compass order: S, NE, W, N.
• Final safe word: HARDEST.
• Scoreboard equations: Red 1, Green 8, Pink 5, Blue 4; then Orange 7, Black 2, Purple 3, Yellow 6.

Achievement Cleanup#

Steam appdetails currently reports 40 achievements for Escape Academy. The public Steam achievement schema endpoint returned HTTP 400 during research, so this article does not pretend to have an official full schema dump. The readable achievement references verify the base-game story achievements, several miscellaneous achievements, and co-op notes; newer or DLC-specific achievements should be checked against your in-game list.

Base Story Achievements

The base story clear achievements line up with the major rooms: Next Stop: Escape Academy, Entrance Examined, Paint Outside the Box, Ticket to Breathin’ Town, Remote Rescue, Don’t Cry Over Spilled Milkshake, Tea Hot to Handle, Machine Learning, Apex First Year, Stop, Drop, and Solve!, Detonation Denied, School Sleuth, and You’ve Escaped! These unlock naturally as you finish their corresponding rooms.

Useful Non-Story Achievements

Extra, Extra! Newspaper Checklist

Verified Video Reference#

The supplied YouTube reference was verified through YouTube oEmbed as Escape Academy – All Achievements/Trophies Walkthrough – 100% Puzzle Solution Guide (Xbox Game Pass) by Maka91Productions. It is embedded here as a visual companion for players who want a full achievement/trophy route on screen.

Sources and Credits#

Official metadata and public screenshots were checked against the Escape Academy Steam page and the official Escape Academy website. The video embed was verified through YouTube oEmbed for Maka91Productions. Puzzle details were cross-checked against readable community walkthrough references; no third-party walkthrough images are reproduced here.