Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School is a school where the homework literally tries to kill you, and the campus itself is one giant puzzle box. This Escape Academy 2 walkthrough gives you every main code I could confirm across all seven chapters, from the tram ticket to the Second Chamber, plus full Clocktower solutions, Extra Credit answers and the campus systems nobody explains properly. You will also learn how credits, Escape Bucks and ziplines work, which achievements you can miss, and whether the game is worth your cash in its rough launch week. Grab a pencil, a friend and maybe a snack. Class starts now.

What Is Escape Academy 2: Back 2 School and How Long Is It?

Back 2 School is the sequel to Coin Crew Games' 2022 puzzler, and it swaps the old "pick a room from a menu" structure for a free roaming campus. Between the big timed escape rooms you wander dorms, labs, a library, a courtyard and some places you are absolutely not allowed to be. It launched on November 5, 2026 for PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and Xbox One ^[3].

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Prices and specs come from the store listing ^[1], the Game Pass details from the launch announcements ^{[3] [15]}, and the playtime from early review and preview impressions ^{[10] [14]}. If you want to try before buying, the free demo on the official Steam page contains the entire first chapter ^[2].

How Does the Open Campus Work in Escape Academy 2?

The big change is that puzzles leak out of the rooms and into the hallways. The developers put it bluntly:

"Puzzles aren't strictly limited to rooms anymore."

Here is what actually runs the campus, because the game barely explains any of it ^{[9] [10]}:

• Credits: Clearing story rooms earns credits, and credits open gated areas. The Campus Gardens gate, for example, wants 17.
• Escape Bucks: The cash you spend on books, parts, tickets and ziplines. Your first few bucks hide in the vent and phone booth at the tram station.
• Extra Credit quests: 24 side puzzles handed out by students. They are the main way to refill your wallet.
• Ziplines: 10 in total. Buy them to cross campus fast and reach high spots, including the top of the Clocktower.
• Red herrings: 50 collectibles to trade with Cod Stewart at the fishing club in the courtyard.
• Pets: Finish an animal companion's side quest and it follows you everywhere. You cannot send it home, and it sometimes wanders into puzzles like an overly helpful toddler.

Escape Academy 2 Walkthrough: Chapter 1 Puzzle Solutions

Chapter 1 is the same content as the free demo, so these answers work in both ^{[2] [6]}.

Escape Shack Station

1. Tram code: Read the ticket machine dials to get destination code 9625.
2. Ticket money: Grab $1 each from the phone box, the vent and the top of the phone box, then buy your ticket.
3. Tram door: Enter STEAM on the door panel.

A Clued Awakening

1. Backpack padlock: The clue under the backpack says start at desk X2 Y2. Each desk shows a letter and a movement hint. Follow the chain to spell PATH.
2. Safe: Press the symbols in timeline order: coffee, karaoke, jigsaw, workshop, hide and seek.
3. Projector: Dial 772 on the phone for the last projector still, then match each founder's face to the correct still.

Locker'd and Loaded, Dorm Sweet Dorm and Better Book It!

• Locker: Headmaster Solange hands you a locker key and an orientation checklist. Find your own portrait on the portrait wall to get locker number 3517, then pocket the $3 inside.
• Dorm padlock: Count the symbols in the founders' portraits to get 346.
• Bookstore: Buy three books. The answers are EUREKA (cipher), then green square, brown diamond, blue triangle, yellow circle (eye colours), then up, left, up, down, left, up, down (arrows).
• Head to Head: Answer the ringing phone in the headmaster's office.

A Surprising Start: The Roof Door Code

The answer is STAY AWAY ^[8]. Each floor of the stairwell gives you one hint. The phrase "STarts STrong," so word one begins with ST. It contains three A letters. Both words end with the same letter. Then the cheekiest hint: the second word has a U, no wait, double that. Double U is W, which gets you AWAY.

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When I first played this in the Chapter 1 demo, I typed STAY OUT twice because I read "double that" as two U letters. Then I sat there feeling personally attacked by a door that was literally telling me to leave. Honestly, that moment sold me on the sequel's writing. The puzzle is a joke, the answer is a joke, and the joke is on you.

That Rings a Bell: Complete Clocktower Solution

Headmaster Solange wants you to climb the Clocktower and ring the bell. Here is every lock, floor by floor ^[7]:

1. Rope spool lock: Count the points on each coloured star hanging from the ceiling and enter them by colour: 47658.
2. Ladder lock: Wrap the rope around the shields in descending order of the four symbols, look through the telescope, and match the shape to the animal constellation: CAMEL.
3. Gears: Find three gears on floor two (the small one sits under the New Moon symbol), mount them and align the arrows. Rotational lock: right, down, up, left, right, down.
4. Planetarium: Match the asteroids to the moon craters: square, hexagon, circle, triangle, pentagon. Take the scissors.
5. Clock chest: Climb the boxes on the left to find the statue holding the clock cipher. Decode the clocks to get LUNAR and claim the lantern.
6. Elevator: Use the lantern to reveal letters in the purple moon phases. Read them from empty to full moon: ECLIPSE.
7. Season box: Fall is middle height and west, spring is middle height and east, summer is the longest height and north west, winter is the lowest height and north.
8. Final clock: Attach the season box device to the big clock. The numerals are mirrored, so read them backwards. Pull the sandbags in order A, C, A, E, D, G, A, then ring the bell.

Escape Academy 2 Walkthrough: Chapters 2 to 7 Codes

From here the campus splits into faculty districts. Each chapter opens with a short "talk to the professor" quest and builds up to a big room ^[6].

Chapter 2: The Science Campus

• Scientific Method: Talk to Von Bellini to enter the science campus.
• Coop de Grace: Match the animal tiles to the records: cheetah, octopus, howler monkey, turtle, whale. Food chain outlets: 9631, 9642, 9753. Use Clue Jay's colours for the worm box.
• Memory Leak: Chemical padlock 18826, radiation lock 403, then build the CH5NO3 structure.
• Overengineering Class: Buy parts worth $17 total.
• Lightbulb Moment: Mouse cage 5423, locker triangle, diamond, circle, square, padlock 2468, trampolines 895, 658 and 986. Bounce the beam with mirrors, then enter the colour sequence for the potential energy formula.

Chapter 3: The Humanities Campus

• Historic Beginnings: Talk to Professor Jeberson.
• Banned Together: Position the statues for book one, enter trolley code 2914 for book two, then step on the creaking floor drawings to open the mezzanine for book three.
• Quiz Pro Quo: B, A, B, B, D.
• Unlock and Load: Show the permit and buy the $10 crowbar. Find the three safe crates and place all eight exhibits.
• Think Inside the Box: A layered room of colour squares, ball and pipe puzzles, EKHO wooden columns, coin placements and a star chart, ending at the golden chest.

Chapter 4: Detention and the Grates

• Solvers Keepers: Use schematic A and guide Gillian south, west, north, north, west, north, east.
• Eyes on the Prize: Finish the bookshelf jigsaw. Safe: shield, fly, disco ball, valve. Pull the books listed in the Reshelfing Rules. Laser code 5863.
• Pay Close Detention: Lockpick pins third, fifth, first, second, fourth. Locker 9542. Build a fishing rod to snag the Warden's Key, then rotate the UV lights to match the arrows.
• Through the Looking Grate: Tree combination LIARS. Room paths go spades, hearts, clubs. Rearrange the plaque and take the map from the crate.

Chapter 5: The Arts Campus and the First Chamber

• A Strong St-Art: Talk to Professor Chortkoff.
• Casting a Wide Net: Sort the auditions into good and bad, then cast Peter, Chet, Ruby and the Detective.
• Suit Yourself: YARM opens the scissors. Chest codes 26013 (size) and 21306 (colour). Patch the cape.
• Pop Un-lock and Drop It: Record player: stop, pause, play, fast forward, stop, rewind. The dance gives 3258. Finish the final dance on the d-pad.
• Chortkoff's Gun: Buy the $20 ticket.
• Death of an Artist: Name Bertrand Solverson, cabinet 4069, address 30 Arson Avenue. Enter the symbols from the three portraits, unscramble the drawings into SECRET, and accuse Chet.
• A Monumental Discovery: Door colours OLIVE, RUBY, BROWNstone, VIOLETte, WHYTE. Decode UNMASK for the statue.
• The First Chamber: Use the skeleton key and duster on the placards, press buttons 2, 5, 4, 3, 5, mix the colours into the glass jug to match the chest lock, then complete the statue text.

Chapter 6: Storms, Ships and the Second Chamber

• Second Round Science: Find Von Bellini near the store room.
• A Storm Approaches: Readings 90 (air), 170 (water), 10 (smell). Tower board answer 26.
• Quanty: Rebooted: Postbox directions and black tiles spell CROWN. Chip numbers 2973. Convert CROWN to 86143 and 2973 to MAIN, then plug Quanty into the Personality Driver.
• Von Boyage: LEMON, barrels down, left, left, up, chest 712 plus the cannonball, captain's code port, aft, port, fore. Read the currents and winds charts, then open the life vest chest with SAVE and yellow 2, green 5, blue 6, red 9.
• Dark Tidings: Place the alchemical tiles 1 to 6, then pick bull, crab and lion for the constellations.
• The Second Chamber: Weigh the items to get 3440, use the mysterious coin and complete the statue text.

Chapter 7: Days Von By...

The finale wraps up the founders' conspiracy. Full, verified solutions for this room are not published anywhere yet, and I won't guess codes. I'll update this section as soon as I've checked every answer. Until then, expect it to reuse the tricks from Chapters 5 and 6: statue text, colour matching and mirrored readings.

What Are the Escape Academy 2 Extra Credit Puzzle Answers?

There are 24 Extra Credit quests. These are the ten answers confirmed so far ^[6]:

Missable Achievements to Grab Early

There are 41 achievements, and two of them punish you for being too good at the game ^[9]:

• B-B-B-B-Busted!: Get caught trespassing five times. Do it early, while most areas are still locked behind credits. If you miss it, start a new save and play until you reach the courtyard.
• Quanty Superposition: Meet all 11 versions of Quanty. The ones you can miss are in the Infirmary, Detention, the Garden and the Beach.
• Star Student: Get an A+ in every escape room, which means no hints and a beaten time limit. Replays make this much easier.

How Do Escape Academy 2 Puzzles Actually Think?

After lining up every code in this guide, a pattern jumps out. Almost every lock in Back 2 School belongs to one of four families. Learn to spot the family and half the room solves itself:

1. Counting: Star points (47658), portrait symbols (346), measured readings (90, 170, 10). If a room has lots of repeated decorations, count them by colour.
2. Ordering: Timelines, trophy years, moon phases, sandbags. If you see a sequence of anything, the answer is the order, not the items.
3. Word ciphers: PATH, LUNAR, ECLIPSE, CROWN, UNMASK, SECRET. A five-letter lock is begging for a theme word, so guess the room's theme before decoding.
4. Directions: Arrow locks, Gillian's route, barrel pushes, port and aft. Note which way you are facing when you read the clue, because mirrored clocks and flipped boards love to trick you.

In co-op, split by family: one player reads and counts, the other works the inputs. The puzzles spread their information across the room, which is exactly why reviewers keep saying many of them are easier with two people ^[10].

Is Escape Academy 2 Worth It? Reviews, Performance and Price

Early critic scores range from 6 out of 10 to about 8.3 out of 10, and the first aggregate settled at 73 out of 100 ^{[11] [12] [13]}. The split is easy to explain. Nearly everyone loves the escape rooms and the conspiracy story. The open world is where people disagree.

• The good: Clever, fair puzzles, a funny story full of puns, smooth co-op and loads of secrets tucked around campus ^{[10] [11]}.
• The rough: Frame drops and stutter while moving between campus areas, even on hardware above the recommended specs and on PS5 Pro. The escape rooms themselves run fine ^{[10] [11]}.
• The weird: Every student shares the same body model from the neck down, so finding "the kid with the quest" can feel like a lineup at uniform day ^[10].
• The mixed: There are occasional difficulty spikes between challenges, and some players found the final room easy to cheese ^{[10] [13]}.

At $19.99, or free on Game Pass, it is an easy recommendation for puzzle fans. Skip the $40.97 Deluxe Edition unless you are sure you want the Season Pass, which covers two planned DLC adventures ^{[1] [3]}. You can grab the base game on Steam, where launch week is already live across PC and consoles ^[16].

Final Thoughts on This Escape Academy 2 Walkthrough

Back 2 School is at its best inside its escape rooms, where every lock is a little joke waiting for you to get the punchline. The campus stutters and the students all look like clones, but the puzzles carry the whole semester. Bookmark this page, since I'll keep adding the Chapter 7 answers and the remaining Extra Credit solutions as they're confirmed. Now go ring that bell. Loudly.