Dr. Edgewood is a renowned psychiatrist, hypnotherapist, and surgeon who was always fascinated with the occult. You were invited to attend a special dinner with him at his mansion. But instead of eating great food, you'll be solving a victorian mystery.
Edgewood Mannor is the first room pack in Escape Simulator. Rooms in a pack are set in theme and follow the same underlying storyline. In this pack, you'll go through 5 rooms in a Victorian mansion: The Clinic, The Library, The Attic, Seance Room, and The Laboratory. When we first started working on the game in 2019, we started making a detective noir room.
2019 - Prototype With the prototype, we tested if we liked interactions and how the co-op would work. We thought it was fun and that we had to make this game :) Since the gameplay looked good, we decided that it was time to work on the graphics too. While doing that, the noir theme morphed into a victorian theme. Our main goal was to make a beautiful escape room game, and this is what we ended up in 2020:
2020 - Vertical Slice Even though it's much closer to how the game looks now, we still weren't happy with it. The style wasn't consistent, single objects looked good, but when put together, they were missing something. After endless iterations, this has finally led us to the final look for the first room:
2021 - Current Version ---- To give a quick update about the development - it's going very well! The target release in 2021 is still on. We also hope to make more "making of" posts like this. You can follow the development closely on our Discord. To get notified when the game will be out, you can wishlist the game here: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1435790/Escape_Simulator/