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 across all eight chapters, from the tram ticket to the final escape, plus full Clocktower solutions, all 24 Extra Credit answers (yes, including Cluepid's Arrow and that sneaky picnic puzzle), every red herring location and the secret long distance call. You will also learn how credits, Escape Bucks and ziplines work, which achievements you can miss, and whether the game is worth your cash. 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 8 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: The Band, the Crypt and the Third Chamber

Chapter 7 is the longest stretch of the game, so top up your Escape Bucks before you start. The band's singer alone costs $20 ^[6].

• Days Von By...: Talk to the staff by the bandstand.
• Banding Together: Recruit the band. Pianist: E, D, E, C, G. Drummer: snare, snare, bass, crash, floor tom. Trombonist: slide to circle, pentagon, square, triangle, hexagon (the order is on Trombone Tony's note). Pay the singer $20, then pick "Introduce Band" with Chortkoff.
• Rest in Paint: Count the stars, spirals and moons behind the pots and enter 342 in the locker for spray paint. Rotate the stencil into a lion, enter LION in the lockbox for the Shapes Stencil, then press the paint colours in order of each shape's points: pink, blue, green, red, orange. Use the key on the Stencil Cupboard and spray Stencils A, B, C and D on the canvas.
• Deciphering Melodies: At the Cipher Center, sort the music box notes, run the Invisible Ink machine and enter CHORD using the Strum Chart. Starting from B, move down three to F, up four to C, up one to D, down three to A and up four to E. Aim the marble bumpers to play B, F, C, D, A, E on the xylophone, then hand the sheet music to Jeberson.
• Pushing up Daisies: In the Greenhouse, set the Fertilizers wall to square, triangle, heart, triangle. Use the Escapist's Hedge on all three flower beds, match the flower colours on the wreath using the poem, and give the wreath to Bonilla.
• Von but Not Forgotten: Head through the campus gardens to the stage and let Chortkoff move the story along.
• A Well-Kept Secret: At night, with your glasses on, follow the footprints onto the roof. The statue lock takes HISTORY for the Stone Tablet. The four footprint sums are 3, 5, 2 and 8. Enter each one in its matching lock at the fountain, then take the tunnel.
• The Third Chamber: Swap the picture tiles back into place. The chest takes 57A3 (Spades 5, Hearts 7, Clubs A, Diamonds 3). Match the broken window panels to the floor letters to spell TIME. Light the candles and note the order they burn out for the next chest. Guides disagree on the exact animal order here, so trust what your own candles show. Fill in the statue text, leave through the tunnel and talk to Solange.
• A Crypt-ic Reveal: Find Jeberson at the rear stairwell past the dorms, go down the spiral stairs and ride the minecart.
• Off the Rails: Gear machine: L then XL in the middle, S then M on the left, S on the right. Follow the pan poster's directions and set the four gemstones in the triangles. The lantern colours spell DUSTY. For the rail tiles, flip the red lever to triangles, then circle and square, then hexagon. Use the Old Keyring on two locks, enter 3241 for one half of the Crest and set the ball paths to top 2, middle 3, bottom 1 for the other. Inside Reina's Crypt, the gems give 9238. Talk to Solange.

Chapter 8: Rewriting History and Escaping the Academy

• Rewriting History: Go to the beach dock, talk to the professors, then continue the story ^[6].
• Eye of the Brain Storm: Pin up the Diamond Paper from the tree. Cross the stepping stones to spell OPPOSITE, then enter FORGET on the plate. Arrange the diamond cards so every row and column adds up to 15. Put the lightbulb in the lamp and open the safe with 1, 5, 8, 3. Pose the Vicluevian Man's arms and legs and read the brainpower values: A 16, B 9, C 19, D 12. Enter them on the door, then open pod 19 with 1, 6, 4, 3, 5, 2.
• Mind Your Elders: Take the blue and red keys from the statues. The blue key gets you a cannonball and a lighter, so load the cannon and blast the wall. Ride the zipline, then solve the bridge with keys 9, 13, 8 and 6, sorted by each key's edge count and colour. Gather all four parts of Reina Wym's Final Words plus the final key, and show the Letter to the giant Alistair Bell.
• Escape the Academy: Head to the Upper Arts Campus, talk to Solange and choose "Complete Story".

Escape Academy 2 Extra Credit: All 24 Side Quest Answers

Extra Credit quests are the students with a green dollar sign over their heads. Every one pays Escape Bucks, and finishing all 24 unlocks the Escape-a-holic achievement. Here is each quest, where to find it and the answer ^{[6] [20]}:

Cluepid's Arrow Solution: Chest Code 41352

Cluepid's Arrow is the archery quest in the Gardens, close to the waterfall. Here is how to work out the code instead of just copying it ^[6]:

1. Talk to the archer: They have lost their arrow, and it is locked in a chest.
2. Study the targets: Every target board either has an arrow stuck in it or an arrow pointing at it, and every arrowhead has a different shape.
3. Match and count: Pair each arrowhead shape with its target, count that target's rings, and read the numbers in the order of the shapes on the chest. You get 41352.
4. Deliver the arrow: Take the arrow out of the chest and give it to the archer to get paid.

A Cryptic Picnic: How the Picnic Puzzle Works

The picnic puzzle sits at the bandstand on the Humanities Campus. Talk to the student with the dollar sign to start it ^[6].

1. Read the plates: Look at the picnic grid on the floor. Every plate shows two letters.
2. Find the shared letters: All the plates in a row share one letter, and so do all the plates in a column.
3. Spell the words: Those shared letters spell two words: SNACK and FRUIT. Enter them on the lunch box.
4. Get paid: Collect the fruit from the box and hand it over for your Escape Bucks.

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.

All 50 Red Herring Locations

Trade red herrings to Cod Stewart at the fishing club for cash, and hand over all 50 for the Herring is Caring achievement. Some spots only open later in the story, so treat this as a checklist rather than a speedrun ^[17].

Headmaster's Tower (9):

• Your dorm room, on the laundry pile you never wash
• The hideout under the stairs in the main courtyard, among the barrels
• Inside a student's sandwich on a cafeteria table
• For sale at the cafeteria counter
• The plaque on the second floor lobby wall, right of the stairs
• The bookshelf right of the headmaster's door
• The vending machine in the stairwell down to detention
• The shelf beside the nurse's station bed
• On the tower spire (needs ziplines)

Science Campus (12):

• A tree pot next to the dumpsters
• Under Nugget's nest in the chicken coop
• Behind a spill in the chemistry lab
• Under a pipe outside the biology lab
• Under the Puzzle Factory's rear entrance
• In a vent near the leaky pipes quest
• On a shelf in the weather tower, behind Von Bellini
• The back corner of the incinerator, next to Jacob Spumoni
• Under the entrance platform of Quanty's old lab
• Along the path wall behind Quanty's lab
• Behind the big red crates
• On the wind turbine platform

Humanities Campus (10):

• Library, right side, on a shelf above the ladder
• Library, left side, in a corner
• Lecture hall, on a front row chair
• A library windowsill by the gazebo
• Under the museum front desk
• A crate on the news building roof (climb up from the back)
• The artifact bin on the Cipher Center's second floor
• Among the flowers in the left garden outside the greenhouse
• In the water under an arch near Founder's Fountain
• The far riverbank, past the log near the gazebo

Arts Campus (9):

• A trash can on the second floor near the tunnel entrance
• A shelf in the theatre department
• Under the central table in the costume department
• The dance studio
• Behind the tank in the Eel museum
• Music studio, on a shelf to the right
• Music studio, behind the piano
• Art studio, on the office chair
• The upper arts fountain, near the door that needs 80 credits

Quad (2), Gardens (5) and Beach (3):

• Quad: behind the trash can at the main entrance
• Quad: in the bushes behind the Clown Club quest
• Gardens: behind the outdoor stage
• Gardens: in the river near the Cluepid's Arrow quest
• Gardens: on the path up to the riddle box, left of the log
• Gardens: deep inside the hedge maze
• Gardens: on the big rock overlooking the outdoor stage
• Beach: among the rocks on the left side
• Beach: at the lifeguard tower, next to Quanty
• Beach: in a bucket on the right side of the docks

Long Distance Call: How to Unlock The Big RevEEL

The long distance call is the game's best hidden secret. Complete it to reconnect with an old friend of the Academy and earn the secret achievement The Big RevEEL. You can only do it after the credits roll ^[18].

1. Meet the requirements: Finish the story, collect all 80 credits (the jigsaw piece counter in the top left corner) and keep at least $50 in Escape Bucks.
2. Reach the lighthouse: In the upper arts campus, go through the door that needs 80 credits, climb the ladder and turn around. Ride the zipline that only opens at 80 credits, then walk around the top of the lighthouse.
3. Place the call: Find the screen that reads "Place long distance call, Insert $50" and pay.
4. Dial the number: Open the number pad, enter 4213 and press the checkmark at the bottom.

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 it updated as patches land and the two DLC adventures arrive. Now go ring that bell. Loudly.