Escape from Mental Hospital Cheats and Tips

Escape from Mental Hospital is an escape room game from Peaksel Games, set in the cells and corridors of an eerie asylum. You play a young woman who wakes with no memory of who she is. To get her out, you search each room for hidden objects, work through its puzzles, and slowly piece her story back together.

The first few rooms ease you in. After that the puzzles get inventive: memory tiles, code locks, logic boards, the occasional spot-the-difference screen. Here's how the rooms work and how to get unstuck when one beats you.

You can also check out our complete Escape from Mental Hospital walkthrough by following that link.

Search the whole room before touching a puzzle

Most puzzles stay locked until you're holding the right item, so the first thing to do in any room is hunt for things to pick up. Tap the bed, the drawers, the bin, the radiator, the floor. Tap the patient too, and whatever they're holding. Miss one object and you can lose ages wondering why a puzzle won't respond.

Open and combine items in your inventory

Picking something up is rarely the end of it. Tap items in your inventory to inspect them, and try opening them or joining them together. A wallet opens to reveal a coin. A lamp comes apart to give you a pencil sharpener. A handle slots into a drawer so it'll open. When you're stuck, the answer is often something already in your bag that you haven't fiddled with yet.

The clue is usually somewhere else in the room

Not everything you tap is an item to collect. Plenty of rooms hand you the solution to a lock through a board on the wall, or a diagram you'd otherwise walk straight past. The handles on a row of coffee cups might set the dials on a safe. A board might tell you which switches to flip. When a puzzle looks impossible, stop hunting for items and start hunting for the answer.

Most rooms end with a code on a keypad

The way out is nearly always a code punched into a keypad, after you've cracked the room's main puzzle. Worked out a string of numbers but can't see what to do with it? Check near the door.

Collect the Red Envelopes for the story

A Red Envelope turns up on your first level, then on every fifth one after that. Each adds a piece of the main character's past. Grab them if the mystery is what's keeping you playing. Our walkthrough marks where they appear.

Don't panic if your rooms don't match a guide

Here's something that throws people: the rooms don't come in a fixed order. Your level 12 might be someone else's level 9. So a guide that doesn't match your screen isn't wrong, you've just had the rooms dealt in a different order. Go by what's in the room, not the number above it.

Help the patients when they ask

Some rooms have a patient who wants something before you can move on, like bandages. Tap them to find out what, then dig that item out of the room. Sort the patient out and the rest of the room tends to open up.

Get used to the recurring mini-games

The same handful of mini-games keep coming back, so learning each one pays off fast. You'll spot the difference between two pictures, match pairs of tiles, copy a flashing light sequence, link up colored lights on a board. You'll know them all on sight before long.

Use the tutorial and hints if you get stuck

The game opens with a tutorial that walks you through how rooms work, and you can switch it off whenever you like using the button at the lower left. Beaten by one puzzle in particular? The game offers hints to nudge you forward, and our full level-by-level walkthrough has the solution for the ones that simply won't give.

Summary

Escape from Mental Hospital rewards a careful eye more than quick thinking. Search every corner, open and combine what you pick up, and read the boards and pictures as clues to the locks beside them. If your rooms turn up in a different order to a guide, go by what's in the room. And when a level flatly refuses to budge, every solution is in our Escape from Mental Hospital walkthrough.

Latest Review:

If the extra levels after level 65 were there I'd like to continue this game. It's great to play but now I'm stuck with no updates for levels

3.6 / 5.0

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