Phone Escape: Hopeless is a new locked-room puzzler where your only lifeline is your phone

Phone Escape: Hopeless is a new locked-room puzzler where your only lifeline is your phone

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A brand-new AR puzzle video game from designer Engimaticon

  • What would you do if you got up alone, apart from your phone, and needed to find out how to leave?
  • Well, you can discover what would perform in Enigmaticon’s brand-new video game, Phone Escape: Homeless
  • Utilize a faux-OS and your phone video camera to browse a 3D world and engage with your abductor

What would you do if you got up secured a space, alone, and without any concept how to get away? It’s a fantastic ice-breaker of a concern and sure to intrigue/alarm your date, buddy or manager.

For designer Enigmaticon it’s the principle behind their brand-new video game, Phone Escape: Hopeless. Utilizing your phone, you’ll need to resolve puzzles at the impulse of your strange abductor, all while outlining a method to (ideally) leave their clutches.

Phone Escape utilizes an AR principle, where your phone ends up being, well, the phone in the video game. You see the world utilizing the electronic camera function, gain access to a faux-operating system and engage with your abductor through text. It’s an ingenious mix of the AR overlay utilized in other scary video games along with the ARG components of utilizing the functions so familiar to mobile players as in-game mechanics.

Ring, ring, ring, ring, banana phone

You may remember ages back when Silent Hills, the Hideo Kojima entry in the well-known scary franchise, was canned. Among the lots of functions that have actually been exposed to have actually remained in preparation considering that its shelving was the concept of the video game sending you messages through your phone, increasing the sense of fear and worry.

While Phone Escape is partially less excellent, given that it’s apparent it isn’t genuine, you ‘d be forgiven for getting immersed anyhow in a certainly phony however not unknown facsimile of the OS many of us utilize daily. The addition of a 3D environment you engage with by pointing your electronic camera is likewise rather an excellent addition, and sure to offer you the willies if you’re playing in a dark space.

Phone Escape: Hopeless is out now for the iOS App Store and Android, with a lite variation providing a totally free trial of a brief area and a paid variation with the complete video game.

Desire more scary enjoyable? Take a look at our list of the leading 25 finest scary video games for Android for more delights and cools!


Iwan Morris


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Iwan is a Cardiff-based freelance author, who signed up with the Pocket Gamer Biz website fresh-faced from University before relocating to the Pocketgamer.com editorial group in November of 2023.

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