Hello!

I'm just a middle-aged (that feels awful to write) woman who enjoys playing computer games to procrastinate. I'm not a serious gamer by any stretch but I definitely enjoy platform and room escape types games. My point is I'm really quite clueless about the gaming world and where to find good games and that sort of thing. I'm glad to have found this site for all my platforming desires but I haven't really found a good place to play quality room escape games. 

Are these games just dead because of flash being murdered? Or are they all only for mobile devices now? As I have said, I am old, so I prefer to play on my computer with a mouse. I also have a MacBook, not a PC, and in fact, it's a rather crappy, old mac because I'm in grad school and couldn't afford anything better so I prefer not to download games if I can avoid it since the computer struggles enough as it is. 

I used to use escapegames24 as a portal for these types of games but then they've been taken over by the mass-produced games that are really not interesting. I really miss the days of crimson room and mystery of time and space and Neutral etc. I did find a few on itch but it seems most require download and a PC. 

Anyway, sorry this is long and I'm so out of the loop (like an old fart!). I appreciate any suggestions and for everyone developing games on this site, thank you so much! 

Heya!

I don't know if this was necessarily what you were looking for, but you can use the search system on itch.io to narrow down search results to Escape Games that are browser based and can be played without download: https://itch.io/games/platform-web/tag-escape-game

You can also search for platform games that can be launched via browser too: https://itch.io/games/genre-platformer/platform-web

Hopefully that helps in your search for more browser based games!

That's funny, I was just reading this HG101 article earlier. They mention this developer in particular coming to Itch.io after the heyday of Flash and room escape games. Guess they're not all gone after all!

They escaped.

Sorry, couldn't help myself. A more useful answer might be that they've largely gone out of fashion now but a couple of big game sites (who I don't know if I'm allowed to mention here), have introduced Flash emulators so you can play the older games that no longer run elsewhere on your browser.

I made an escape room type game. Actually I am still working on it and it's text only, but you can already play it. It's called Darkness and you can find it on my page and I would appreciate any feedback.