Games Like Folder Escape

A folder becomes a room. A file becomes a tool.

You start out as a stickman, and you have to get out of a locked folder.

Every piece of logic you need to escape is on the screen you have always looked at. You just have never looked at it as a puzzle before.

Rename a broken key file and the key works again.

Change a file extension from .txt to .exe and the bomb actually detonates.

Tick Show hidden items and a platform appears where there was nothing, while the floor you were standing on disappears.

Switch from icon view to list view and the files rearrange themselves.

The screen you have used every day, played as a game.

Stage structure

The 30 stages are grouped five at a time into six zones.

Each zone teaches one new logic per stage across its first four, and a .zip shows up on the fifth.

The four stages before it come compressed, so it asks for everything you just learned at once.

Stages 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 and 30 sit in that slot and work as a kind of mid-boss.

Clear ranks

"How well did I actually clear that?" Clear ranks answer it. Your action count decides the rank.

Only your best rank per stage is kept, so a rank you have earned never drops and you are free to retry. The stage list on the start screen shows at a glance which stages are still worth digging into.

Comfort and challenge

30 stages, 60 to 90 minutes on a first run

Single player. Keyboard, with a mouse for some stages. English and Korean.