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The tenth Cube Escape follows the story of detective Dale Vandermeer who finds himself trapped in two different universes and needs to escape. Cube Escape: Paradox will be released together with the accompanying Paradox: A Rusty Lake Film.

Cube Escape: Paradox is a puzzle, free to play and psychological horror game developed and published by Rusty Lake.
Released on September 20th 2018 is available on Windows and MacOS in 14 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Polish, Russian and Turkish.

It has received 10,317 reviews of which 10,035 were positive and 282 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.4 out of 10. 😍

The game is free to play on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Cube Escape: Paradox into these genres:

Puzzle Free to Play Psychological Horror Point & Click Mystery Singleplayer Escape Room Indie Horror Multiplayer Adventure Atmospheric Story Rich 2D Detective Dark Surreal Great Soundtrack Co-op Hand-drawn

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Microsoft® Windows® XP/Vista/7,8, 10 or later
  • Processor: 1.8 Ghz Processor
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Direct X 9.0c compatible video card
  • DirectX: Version 9.0c
  • Storage: 120 MB available space
MacOS
  • OS: OS X version Leopard 10.5.8, Snow Leopard 10.6.3, or later
  • Processor: Intel Mac 1.8 Ghz
  • Memory: 1 GB RAM
  • Storage: 120 MB available space

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March 2025
This builds very nicely on Rusty Lake Hotel, Rusty Lake Roots and Rusty Lake Paradise so I will focus primarily on where it differs. Pros: Delivers just like the first three did. By far the most claustrophobic of these four, even more so than Hotel. In this one I never once experienced the game thinking I was trying to interact with one thing when really I was trying to interact with another that was close by. Yet another great hook. Emotionally engaging. Cons: As far as game play goes this does not really feature much new, though certainly the memory rearranging was fresh. The combination of live action footage with the distinct and purposefully not very photorealistic art style does clash, though it is fairly infrequent. Strongly recommended
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Feb. 2025
Cube Escape is a true classic of flash games and each game expands on the story. One of my favorite franchises.
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Feb. 2025
A very good game, the puzzles in this game seem to blend to that right level of difficulty and enjoyability, due to the nature of the game you will have to actively go out your way to click and interact with everything since sometimes you just miss something and it makes you search for like 5 minutes when you didn't need to. I think what really made this game shine was the soundtrack/ambiance, it reminded me of that Fatal Frame kind of vibe with how the music feels. Other than that I really enjoyed the story, but that's kind of just expected with the Rusty Lake series, so I was extremely impressed when it blended real-life actors with the in game setting and did it pretty well. it's something that makes this game stand out from the other ones. it certainly has a lot more layers that I need to take time to understand especially considering the alternative endings in this game, it's one of those games you would definitely gain more form playing the other games before it. I don't think you'd really enjoy this coming into the series as your first entry because you'd be mostly just confused since a lot of it's story relies on the fact you were there for it's previous entries this isn't to put down the game I believe this is an added fact, but due to the nature of the first chapter being free I think it's important for me to say that. and just to save time. chapter 2 is just as good if not further adds to my points I already put here.
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Sept. 2024
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☑ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☑ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☑ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☑ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10
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July 2024
[url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45030479/]🧩Undecided & Puzzled Reviews🧩 Visit and follow my curator page if you enjoyed this review❤️ Cube Escape: Paradox Rusty Lake does it again. As always, great art, great puzzles, great story and new interesting mechanics. This time though, they added some twists. The game uses FMV and a short film (you can find on YouTube or within the game through a link) that aid the game and interact with the game. It will give you clues and codes for extra easter eggs, or more story. Similar to an ARG but not quite. It definitely was a great experience. The casting was perfect and so was their acting. Given the different dynamics, the puzzles are even more interesting and a delight to try and solve them. This was divided into 2 chapters, the first one being free and the second a dlc. Technically the full game is just the dlc price. All of their games have a pretty good price for the game play time and content. Again, this is a part of a very story rich series which I fully recommend. The series bundle can be found below: [url=https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/3669/Rusty_Lake_Bundle/] Rusty Lake Bundle on Steam And Samsara Room https://store.steampowered.com/app/1281800/Samsara_Room/
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Frequently Asked Questions

Cube Escape: Paradox is free to play on Steam.

Cube Escape: Paradox is not on sale because is already free to play on Steam.

Cube Escape: Paradox received 10,035 positive votes out of a total of 10,317 achieving an impressive rating of 9.43.
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Cube Escape: Paradox was developed and published by Rusty Lake.

Cube Escape: Paradox is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Cube Escape: Paradox is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Cube Escape: Paradox is not playable on Linux.

Cube Escape: Paradox is a single-player game.

There is a DLC available for Cube Escape: Paradox. Explore additional content available for Cube Escape: Paradox on Steam.

Cube Escape: Paradox does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Cube Escape: Paradox does not support Steam Remote Play.

Cube Escape: Paradox does not currently support Steam Family Sharing.

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Cube Escape: Paradox
Free to play
9.4
10,035
282
Game modes
Online players
59
Developer
Rusty Lake
Publisher
Rusty Lake
Release 20 Sep 2018
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