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EscapeForge
Single-player escape room iOS game for ages 9–14
▶ Play it nowBuilt for sittings of about 20 minutes on the screen. That is our design budget, not a measurement.
👥 Pass-and-play available
Meet your mentor
Every Spark & Anvil app has a friendly mentor character that demonstrates, asks, and patiently scaffolds learning. On-device AI personalizes the mentor's responses to your kid's progress — never connecting to a server, never collecting data.
Mentored by Latch
#FFA726 EscapeForge is an escape room game where you solve puzzles to unlock doors and escape before time runs out! Each room is packed with math puzzles, word challenges, ciphers, pattern recognition, and logic problems. Can you think fast enough to find your way out?
Characters who teach
Meet the cast
Each character in EscapeForge is one kind of puzzle: math, words, codes, patterns, logic, connections, sequences, mazes, hidden objects and riddles. Latch, the mentor, opens each room.
Tally
Math puzzles — counting / arithmetic / number-sense
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Lexa
Word puzzles — anagrams / vocabulary / spelling
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Sift
Cipher puzzles — substitution / Caesar / frequency analysis
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Tile
Pattern puzzles — repetition / symmetry / tessellation
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Cog
Logic puzzles — deduction / elimination / constraint
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Link
Connection puzzles — association / category / cross-reference
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Beat
Sequence puzzles — temporal-order / step-by-step / dependency
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Maze
Spatial puzzles — mazes / path-finding / mapping / mental rotation
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Seek
Search puzzles — hidden objects / visual search / spot-the-difference
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Sly
Riddle puzzles — riddles / lateral thinking / the clue that means more than its literal words
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What's inside
Explore the Room
Look around the room by tapping on objects and areas. Find hidden clues, locked doors, and puzzle stations scattered throughout each chamber. Everything you fin
Solve Puzzles
Each room has multiple puzzles to solve. You might crack a number code, unscramble words, decode a cipher, complete a pattern, or work through a logic problem.
Unlock Doors
Puzzles connect to doors and gates through a channel system. Solve the right puzzles in the right order to open the path forward. Some doors need multiple puzzl
Beat the Clock
Every room has a time limit. Work quickly but carefully -- rushing through puzzles leads to mistakes, but thinking too long means time runs out. Find the right
Mentored by Latch — on-device AI, no data leaves the device.
How EscapeForge handles your kid's data
- ✅ All progress, settings, and AI-generated content stays on the device
- ✅ No analytics, no tracking, no third-party SDKs
- ✅ Free — no ads, no in-app purchases
- ✅ No personal information collected from children — in line with COPPA (updated by the 2026 FTC amendments)
- ✅ No chat with strangers — play-together rooms use a short code and preset emotes, never typed messages
EscapeForge runs on ForgeKit — the open-source Swift Package Manager framework that powers every Spark & Anvil app. ForgeKit ensures consistent accessibility, COPPA compliance, and design language across the portfolio, so your kid's progress and preferences feel coherent across every app they touch.
Coming to the App Store
EscapeForge is in active development. Email us to hear when it ships — no marketing, no spam, just a one-shot launch announcement.
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