Gear Out Escape Puzzle

Adventure
4.8
28 ratings 20 reviews
release date
2023
January 20
game modes
• Singleplayer
player modes
• Standing • Sitting • Roomscale
compatibility
• Quest 1 • Quest 2/Pro • Quest 3/3S
storage 1.4 GB
Store Page
$6.99 ended Jul 21
$10.99

Gear Out Escape Puzzle is a unique, tense and completely immersive interactive escape-room puzzle game.

Explore the creepy environments and solve challenging puzzles to escape to the next level. But watch out - you're not always in there alone!

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Navigate through 26 different environments, solving problems and interacting with obstacles to locate gears. Arrange the gears on the final puzzles to open the door and escape to the next level.

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Each level can be randomised to generate up to 9,999 puzzle variations for extended game play. Explore caves, tunnels, underwater, basements, drains, industrial areas and offices. Interact with doors, wheels, cranes, levers, buttons, hatches, drawers, lockers, wall-bashing hammers and more. The scale of each level varies from single rooms to expansive complexes and mazes.

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Controls are fully customizable to your specific preference. Play seated, standing or room-scale with one or both controllers.

To succeed at Gear Out, you need to be smart and brave. Ready to put yourself to the test? Install Gear Out now.

comfort ⦾ Moderate
age rating13+ Teen
websiteforwardthinkinginteractive.com
developerForward Thinking Interactive
publisherForward Thinking Interactive
connectionInternet not required
app version2.10
languagesEnglish ∙ Chinese ∙ French ∙ German ∙ Korean ∙ Spanish ∙ Welsh

Price History

Reviews 20

kryotex31 days ago

perfect game if you like gears!

my 2nd favorite single player escape room

James4 months ago
1

Frustrating as heck.

I want this to be a good game, but so far, it's just a frustrating game with horrible physics. I was trying to do the tutorial where it tells you to pick up the gear and place it on the highlighted spindle. The highlight was on a wall with no spindle. I turned around to see if i missed something, and then the highlight jumped to the actual spindle. I literally spent 20 minutes trying to put the gear on the spindle, and I couldn't do it. My hand flopped about with the gear in hand, and even when lined up with the red gear highlight, it still wouldn't go on. It just falls through the spindle to the floor. I finally had enough and just quit the game. If I can't get past the tutorial, something is wrong.

3 months ago

Hello

Sorry to hear you're having problems. Thank you contacting me via the contact form at forthinteract.com as this is the best way to get support. I responded to you 33 minutes later requesting further info so I can see what's wrong. I am concerned that you said "The highlight was on a wall with no spindle" as this should never happen. I look forward to receiving your response so I can check out for any issues. Until then, the notes below might help as to what is expected behaviour.

Gear Out is a puzzle game where you attach gears to spindles in a specific order to make them all drive each other. In the tutorial, one of the spindles lights up in blue to guide you where to attach a gear. This only happens in the tutorial. When you are holding a gear in your hand, you can try and place it on a spindle - either directly by moving the gear to the rough vicinity of your intended spindle, or by pointing your laser at a spindle. The spindle will light up green if it is possible for the gear to be attached or red if it is not possible. The main reason why it might not be possible to attach a gear to a spindle is that the gear is too large to fit the available space. So if the spindle goes green and you let go of the gear, it will snap into place on the spindle. Otherwise if you let a gear go when the spindle is red (or you haven't highlighted any spindle) then the gear will just drop to the floor as any other object will if you let it go.

Each gear has a weight and this is reflected in how it interacts with the hand. The smaller lighter gears are easy to flick around with your hand. The larger heavier gears are not so easy and will swing your hand as a heavy weight will do in real life. This is an intentional behaviour to try and make the environment feel more physical and real. However, it can be disabled in the control panel by unchecking "use weighted gears".

Hopefully that helps, but otherwise respond to the email I sent and we'll work through it.

David.

Lee5 months ago
1

It's good

A little janky, but it's very good. I didn't get very far as I'm not smart enough for this sort of game - too hard for me. If you like puzzle games definitely try this.

4 months ago

Thanks very much for the great review :-) If you see anything janky, ley me know via the contact form at forthinteract.com and I'll look into it straight away.

Ron Panus5 months ago
5

A new type of puzzle solving game.

This is a very interesting “puzzle” type of game. Let’s be clear that the player (you) will have many opportunities to have the crap scared out of you. Nice and creepy. In short, you must first locate the required gears that need to be placed on the gear-wall, and in the correct order to move to the next level. Cool thing is that the puzzles and time requirements to advance are very reasonable. You pickup and place the gears using Psionic-type method. Highly recommend this game.

5 months ago

I'm really glad you are enjoying Gear Out and thank you so much for leaving such a kind review. :-))

Crush6 months ago
7

Gear out

Really like this game. Very different and the graphics a great. But I cannot get past level 13. The game glitches out. I had the gears all set and the game went completely black. Had to start the level over. Then finally did get through the door to the 3 chests of gold with the metal elevator but the elevator will not go up. The buttons do not work. So I’ll have to start level 13 yet again. I would love to get to the metal levels. So frustrated. Can anyone help?
UPDATE..
Tech support has already reached out to me and is fixing the problems. Very quick response. Updated my review to 5 stars. Great game and great support. Thank you!

6 months ago

Hello. Thank you very much for the kind comments and for providing accurate feedback via the contact form at forthinteract.com. This is the best way of seeking support, as we don't get notifications that a review has been left, so could miss support requests here.

I've fixed the issue you discovered, which was that those nasty mummies on Level 13 could inadvertently lock the player in a room with no chance to escape! This has been fixed from version 2.06.

Thanks again for the kind comments and I hope you continue to enjoy Gear Out.

JaneyBee6 months ago

Great game!

A great game with great graphics and easy to use controls. A different approach to the ordinary escape room though, making it all the more exciting

6 months ago

Thank you very much for your encouraging feedback. Glad you are enjoying Gear Out. :-)

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