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Access Denied: Escape

Stately Snail · 2023-07-27

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AdventureIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Jul 27, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 15, 2024 (Nintendo Switch), Nov 15, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Nov 15, 2024 (PlayStation 5), Nov 15, 2024 (Xbox One), Nov 15, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S)

Access Denied: Escape is a puzzle game where you have to hack data vaults and interact with various devices to escape.

91%
positive of 293 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
$4.99
steam price (US)

In the future, people no longer trust computer networks and prefer to use physical devices to store important information. You are a professional hacker of such Data Vaults. Use your wits and powers of observation to discover the secret hidden within the walls of this laboratory.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 28 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~4/week).
  • · Review velocity up 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 16,862 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.9k–13k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 293 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$4.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.99 at Humble Store (2024-05-26) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 0 of 1 observed days · $3.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
262620232026Week of 2023-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Completion

14
achievements tracked
96.5%
earned "Test Task"
64%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam CloudFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)61866%14
PS5 (PlayStation)24681%15
PS4 (PlayStation)18185%15
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)17868%14
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieLinearPuzzleMysteryAdventureCyberpunkRealisticControllerFuturisticAtmospheric

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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