Escape MindEscape Mind

Game Details:  Mystery, 2019

Links:  Moby Games, Steam

Walkthrough Updated:  12/4/2020

Suggested Listening:  Where There's Smoke (Ash 25)

Escape Mind is a short puzzle adventure with small minigames. After chasing a white rabbit into an abandoned house you find yourself trapped and must explore the house and try to escape. There are 7 Steam Achievements, all documented in the walkthrough below.

Ground Floor

Pick up the matches and click on the lizard to make it run away. Touch the candle flame to extinguish it, then use a match to relight the candle (1/16). Click on the crow that appears in the window, and pick up the strange amulet that it drops. The gate will now open, so you can head left.

Click on the left bag and a red insect will escape. Extinguish and relight the candle (2/16). Notice the glass cabinet with 8 empty slots, then continue left again. Light the candle (3/16), then click the plant 3 times and take the blue scarab (1/8). Take the partial sign from the boarded doorway, then click on each of the boards to remove them. Now click on the spider repeatedly until it ends up in the web. Click on the spider to start a minigame:

You must click to move the spider right to the next web, avoiding the water drops, until you reach the far right.

Now pick up the black widow (2/8). Go up the stairs.

First Floor

Light the 3 candles (6/16), then pay attention to the red line drawing that appears on the wall, and the word "Aquarius" on the ground in front of the candles. Touch the red mushrooms to the left, and pick up the one that falls. Click on the tap twice to turn it off GOOD SAMARITAN. Around now you will probably have also clicked the mouse button 100 times 100 CLICKS!.

Head right, and extinguish and relight the candle (7/16). Click on the lizard to make it run away, then click on the red rose until you take the petals. Continue right and light the candle (8/16). Click on the owl until it explodes KABOOM!. Return left and climb up the ladder.

Second Floor

Extinguish and relight the candle (9/16). Click on the pictures on the table, and they will float up to the wall. Head right and light the candle (10/16), then click on the lizard to make it run away. Grab the sand clock from the top of the chest of drawers. Now search the drawers and pick up the termite (3/8). Examine the mouse hole to the right to start a minigame:

Your goal is to reach the target, by choosing which direction to move the green diamond. It will move until it hits an obstacle, and you will have to restart if you end up going past the edge of the area.

Once you are done, return left and climb back down the ladder.

First Floor

Go right and pick up the green crystal, then return left and climb up the ladder once more.

Second Floor

Insert the green crystal into the hole in the wall, then continue left. Grab the empty flask from the bottom left shelf, and the blue crystal from the top right shelf. Click on the purple hat on the ground, then pick up the silver key that is revealed. Now examine the red books on the bottom left and bottom right shelves for some clues about upcoming puzzles. Use your strange amulet on the book at the top right, then read this book for another clue.

Return right and drag the two pictures on to the candle to burn them both. Now examine the left window for another minigame:

Join lines to connect the stars to replicate the red line drawing you saw earlier above the 3 candles.

Pick up the moon moth (4/8). Go right and click on the purple hat again. Use your silver key on the bottom drawer, then open the drawer and take the red crystal from inside. Return left and climb down the ladder.

First Floor

Head right and click on the broom several times CLEAN HOUSE. Now head left twice and down through the doorway.

Ground Floor

Head right and insert the blue crystal into the hole in the wall. Go down through the new opening.

Basement

Extinguish and relight the candle (11/16). Use your partial sign on the wall here to complete the message. Continue right, then extinguish and relight another candle (12/16). Use your sand clock with the hole in the corner of the clock on the wall here. Climb down the ladder.

Sub-Basement

Light the candle (13/16), then click on the brick that is slightly lighter than the rest ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL. Click on the bat several times, then pick up the fish bones. Extinguish and relight the candle (14/16). Click on the hanging skulls, then collect the lady bug (5/8). Head left.

Light the candle (15/16), then take the blue triangle eye from the middle of the dream catcher. Use your empty flask to collect some water, then return right twice and climb up the ladder.

Basement

Go left and give the fish bones to the black cat. Collect the green potion. Insert the blue triangle eye into the slot on the wall, then head right and go down the ladder again.

Sub-Basement

Continue left and take the magic eye from the skull on the ground. Return right and up once more.

Basement

Head left and climb up again.

Ground Floor

Examine the triangle picture on the wall for the next minigame:

Click to move the small dot around the maze until it reaches the larger dot on the left. After appearing inside the larger dot on the right, keep clicking to move the small dot to the exit.

Pick up the red triangle eye. Head back down the hole.

Basement

Insert the red triangle eye into the slot on the wall, then put the red crystal into the skull's open mouth. Head left and light the candle (16/16) LET THERE BE LIGHT!. Click on the lizard to make it run away, then examine the book beneath the table for another clue. Return right and climb up.

Ground Floor

Click on the lizard again, then pick up its tail. Continue left and upstairs.

First Floor

Go right and take the dragon fly (6/8) from the window ledge. Go right and pick up the sheet music, then click on the purple hat again. Return left twice and downstairs.

Ground Floor

Continue right and down the hole.

Basement

Head left and put your flask of water on the burner. Put the red rose petals into the flask of water. Light the burner with a match, then take the red potion. Now add your red mushroom, magic eye and lizard tail to the mortar and pestle, then pick it up. Click on the incorrect equation on the wall to rotate it 180 degrees, then examine the new book on the top right shelf for another clue. Return right and up.

Ground Floor

Continue left and upstairs.

First Floor

Head right and up the ladder.

Second Floor

Now go left. Add your red potion and green potion to the cauldron, then drag the blue potion over it. Add your mortar and pestle, then pick up the bumble bee (7/8). Return right and down the ladder.

First Floor

Continue left and downstairs.

Ground Floor

Go right and down the hole.

Basement

Continue right and down the ladder.

Sub-Basement

Head left twice. Now you need to click on the frogs in the order indicated by the sheet music. Pick up the fire fly (8/8). Head right twice and climb up the ladder.

Basement

Now go left and up again.

Ground Floor

Pick up the golden key, then head back down.

Basement

Go left and use the golden key on the door. Examine the mechanism and click on the squares until they are all depressed. You will automatically leave through the open door CONGRATULATIONS!.