/ GAMES / Fire Escape / Similar Games
/ Search Database Or Try Advanced Search
Our experts have spent time searching for great games similar to Fire Escape and have found the following:
Fire Escape is a murder mystery styled on Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window. You sit on a fire escape and can see into the apartments opposite as well as hear the intimate conversations of your neighbours across the alleyway. You peer into the lives of the diverse tenants to piece together clues and solve the murder. Unlike the film, your choices direct the unfolding narrative and uncover (or fail to uncover) the hidden secrets that will unwrap the mystery.
Unfortunately, Fire Escape is not available on Mac, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S or iOS. However, we recommend the following games that offer a similar experience or theme, and at a lower age rating:
Release Date: 29/04/2020
Out Now: Android and PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Players: 1
Genres: Narrative, Puzzle and Adventure
Accessibility: 0 features documented (Tweet Developer )
Components: 2D Side-On
Developer: Ink Stories (@InkStories)
Costs: Purchase cost, In-Game Purchases and In-Game Pass
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fire Escape. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fire Escape.
Shadows of Doubt is an open-world detective game set in a fully simulated city of crime and corruption.
Shadows of Doubt is an open-world detective game set in a fully simulated city of crime and corruption. You explore the city to discover criminality, find clues, solve crimes and earn money to fund bringing a serial killer to justice.
Out Now: PC
The Flower Collectors is a point-and-click game set in post-Franco Barcelona, about an ex-cop in a wheelchair, witnessing a murder.
The Flower Collectors is a point-and-click game set in post-Franco Barcelona, about an ex-cop in a wheelchair, witnessing a murder. Play is based in your apartment, using cameras and binoculars to observe and work out what happened.
Out Now: PC and Switch
Cracks Where the Light Gets In is a narrative game where you observe the day-to-day lives of different people and find your assumptions being subverted.
Cracks Where the Light Gets In is a narrative game where you observe the day-to-day lives of different people and find your assumptions being subverted. As you watch a refugee family from hidden viewpoints, you piece together the stories of their lives and gain a new understanding of the events that led them there.
Coming Soon: Mac and PC
Genesis Noir is a narrative-driven puzzle game.
Genesis Noir is a narrative-driven puzzle game. It's a time travelling mystery to save your lover, by intervening through the history of the world to ultimately stop the expansion of the universe.
Out Now: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Another Lost Phone places a stranger’s smartphone in your hands.
Another Lost Phone places a stranger’s smartphone in your hands. As you use the phone interface to explore the social life of its young woman owner, Laura, you piece together messages, pictures and profiles to solve her disappearance.
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Photographs - Puzzle Stories is a narrative puzzle game where you witness the lives and memories of five different characters.
Photographs - Puzzle Stories is a narrative puzzle game where you witness the lives and memories of five different characters. You investigate old photos for memories that advance the story and solve simple puzzles that reflect their lives.
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Fire Escape. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Fire Escape.
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time.
Season: A Letter to the Future is a narrative adventure about a young woman sent out from her secluded community to explore the world for the first time. She is tasked with documenting life in a local valley before a mysterious cataclysm washes everything away.
Out Now: PC, PS4 and PS5
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse.
Overboard is a murder mystery narrative game played in reverse. You murder your husband at the start of the game and then try and get away with it.
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Nuts is an adventure game where you play a rookie field researcher.
Nuts is an adventure game where you play a rookie field researcher. You use your camera, caravan, GPS and map to investigate the depths of the enigmatic Melmoth Forest.
Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a narrative brain game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives.
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective is a narrative brain game where you play a ghost that can stop time to solve crimes and save lives. You can inhabit and control objects and possess corpses to alter what happens.
Out Now: DS, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
80 Days is a travel and culture discovery game set in 1872, where decisions about your journey around the world impact the course of the story and characters.
80 Days is a travel and culture discovery game set in 1872, where decisions about your journey around the world impact the course of the story and characters. You play be deciding where to go next and talking to the people you meet to find the right resources for your journey.
Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Paradise Killer is a detective game set in the open world of Paradise Island.
Paradise Killer is a detective game set in the open world of Paradise Island. It's a strange place with quirky characters and an alien obsessed, demon worshiping world.
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Do Not Feed the Monkeys is an adventure game where you sit at a computer and spy on live video feeds of various events and characters.
Do Not Feed the Monkeys is an adventure game where you sit at a computer and spy on live video feeds of various events and characters. Your job is to gather information about "the monkeys" while also looking after your character's health and apartment rent.
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Immortality is a mystery horror game where you investigate the lost movies of Marissa Marcel to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Immortality is a mystery horror game where you investigate the lost movies of Marissa Marcel to unravel the mystery of her disappearance. As you paw through the footage, you uncover a story that spans three decades in unnerving and horrific ways.
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Xbox X|S and iOS
Röki is a Scandinavian folklore point-and-click style adventure game where you play Tove on a journey to save her family.
Röki is a Scandinavian folklore point-and-click style adventure game where you play Tove on a journey to save her family. As you help her come to terms with loss, you explore deep into a snowy fairytale landscape with strange locations and creatures.
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Return of the Obra Dinn is a narrative puzzle game where you play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have mysteriously died.
Return of the Obra Dinn is a narrative puzzle game where you play a shipping company agent assessing what happened on board a fictional East India Company ship where all the passengers have mysteriously died. Exploring the ship, you can revisit the moment of death for each body in order to identify each of the 60 crew members and how they died.
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building.
Twelve Minutes is an adventure thriller game about a single apartment building. You view things from above and can interact with a simple click-and-drag interface.
Moncage is an adventure puzzle game, where you find a mysterious cube.
Moncage is an adventure puzzle game, where you find a mysterious cube. Each face displays a different scene and by rotating and interacting you can change your view and how they overlap with each other.
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama.
Heaven's Vault is a communication adventure game you play an archaeologist translating an ancient alien language whose decrypting weaves through an unfolding drama. While doing real linguistic work you interact with companions and locals.
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people.
The White Door is an adventure that you play by exploring each room, finding and interacting with items and people. Along with its unusual black-and-white visuals, The White Door is also notable for the topic of mental health and memory loss it takes on.
Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder.
Tangle Tower is a murder mystery game, from the same developer as Snipperclips, where you explore a grand old house and its intertwining families to solve a mysterious murder. You are given the events of the murder, each person's movement and a range of items to find.
Out Now: PC, Switch and iPhone, iPad
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure.
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure. You explore and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies.
Hidden Agenda is an adventure noir crime thriller.
Hidden Agenda is an adventure noir crime thriller. It's from the people who made Until Dawn, but uses the PlayLink technology to let multiple people play on the PlayStation using their smartphones to interact and make decisions.
Out Now: PS4
Argument Wars is an adventure game where you play a lawyer in a U.S.
Argument Wars is an adventure game where you play a lawyer in a U.S. Supreme Court.
Out Now: Android, Web and iOS
Welcome to Elk is an adventure game set on a fictional island.
Welcome to Elk is an adventure game set on a fictional island. It tells true stories and tall tales, about the people who live there.
Out Now: Mac, PC and Xbox One
Spy Party is a one-versus-one game about observing behaviour.
Spy Party is a one-versus-one game about observing behaviour. One player is a spy at a party among many computer-controlled guests, with a list of missions.
Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power.
Not For Broadcast is a narrative puzzle game where you control the National Nightly News just as a radical government comes to power. By deciding the angles, adverts, images and censoring in the show you control what the people see and determine what’s Not For Broadcast.
Out Now: Mac and PC
Beat Cop is a police crime drama where you have been framed for murder.
Beat Cop is a police crime drama where you have been framed for murder. Back on the street, you navigate the pixilated 80’s Miami Vice world to find out who did it.
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret.
Love - A Puzzle Box Filled with Stories is a puzzle game about regret. You interact with and explore a single apartment building.
Under the Waves is a narrative adventure where you survey the ocean depths to find leaking pipes and make repairs.
Under the Waves is a narrative adventure where you survey the ocean depths to find leaking pipes and make repairs. As you do you also discover a story of a grieving man retreating into himself.
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Ambition: A Minuet in Power is a text adventure that offers a historical twist on the dating game genre.
Ambition: A Minuet in Power is a text adventure that offers a historical twist on the dating game genre. You play a young woman far from home, abandoned by the love of her life in the city of Paris.
Backbone is an adventure game inspired by film noir where you role-play as a human-like raccoon detective.
Backbone is an adventure game inspired by film noir where you role-play as a human-like raccoon detective. As a detective, you search for clues and evidence, talk to witnesses, and choose which leads to follow.
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox X|S
Rainswept is an adventure game where you investigate a murder with the themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma.
Rainswept is an adventure game where you investigate a murder with the themes of love, relationships and unresolved trauma. You are Detective Michael Stone, assisting local police with a seemingly simple case.
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Catherine is a narrative puzzle game about a young man torn between two lovers, struggling with the temptation and consequences of infidelity.
Catherine is a narrative puzzle game about a young man torn between two lovers, struggling with the temptation and consequences of infidelity. During the daytime, you interact with characters in a visual novel that sets up the nighttime traversal challenge.
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, Switch and Xbox 360
It's a Wrap! is a running and jumping game set within an editable 1980s Hollywood film timeline that you can adjust to make the jumps and dashes achievable.
It's a Wrap! is a running and jumping game set within an editable 1980s Hollywood film timeline that you can adjust to make the jumps and dashes achievable. Play is in two stages, first, you drag and drop the different actions on the timeline to set things up for the second stage where you (hopefully) run and jump to the end of the scene (without getting crushed by that giant boulder) It's a game that's as much about sitting in the director's chair as it is good timing and platforming skills.
Bloodshore is a narrative game that uses video footage of real actors to invite you to enter an extreme game show where contestants compete to be the last one alive on a desert island.
Bloodshore is a narrative game that uses video footage of real actors to invite you to enter an extreme game show where contestants compete to be the last one alive on a desert island. To play you make choices for your character that affect your alliances with other contestants and resources.
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox X|S and iOS
If Fire Escape is not age appropriate for your child, here are similar games ordered by age rating so you can find an age-appropriate alternative that’s also a game they will love.
If you like the sound of Fire Escape but find it too complex or challenging, the games in this section offer a similar experience but with a lower Skill Rating.
These are our hand-picked alternatives to Fire Escape. This doesn't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Labyrinth. These selections also include games that offer a different experience but address a similar theme or topic.
Reef is a sequencing game where you grow a coral reef piece by piece.
Reef is a sequencing game where you grow a coral reef piece by piece. You play by placing Coral pieces on a 4-by-4 grid, trying to match patterns on the cards that you choose.
Carcassonne is a strategy game where you lay tiles to create a medieval landscape of farms, rivers and cities.
Carcassonne is a strategy game where you lay tiles to create a medieval landscape of farms, rivers and cities. Each new tile must match the roads, rivers, farms and cities of those around it.
Cantaloop is a trilogy of goofy point-and-click adventure games in book form.
Cantaloop is a trilogy of goofy point-and-click adventure games in book form. It's set in 1976 where you play Oz "Hook" Carpenter who's just returned from exile and is seeking revenge.
These are games of a similar genre mix to Fire Escape. This includes games from the Puzzle, Narrative and Adventure genres. We pick out games of a similar PEGI rating to further hone these generated suggestions.
Over The Alps is an adventure with intrigue and espionage set in Switzerland in 1939.
Over The Alps is an adventure with intrigue and espionage set in Switzerland in 1939. Designed to look like retro photographs.
Out Now: PC and iPhone, iPad
Infernium is an adventure horror game where you need to carefully consider your strategy to progress through the non-linear interlocking chapters.
Infernium is an adventure horror game where you need to carefully consider your strategy to progress through the non-linear interlocking chapters. Exploring the world, avoiding getting caught by the ethereal enemies and solving puzzles uncovers a story about a group of friends.
To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon.
To the Moon is a story-adventure following two doctors trying to fulfil a dying man's last wish to go to the moon. With only a few ways to interact with the game, you control the doctors, exploring and solving puzzles to reconstruct the dying man's memories.
The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society.
The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies.
Out Now: PC, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Gone Home places you in the role of Katie, returning from overseas to her family home.
Gone Home places you in the role of Katie, returning from overseas to her family home. But the house is deserted and by exploring the rooms you piece together what happened to her sister, Sam.
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
In addition to the similar games listed above, which have been linked to this game specifically in the database, you may find games with a similar theme to Fire Escape in the following lists: