In our case, the answer is always “no, it’s not the same game. Our games are completely our own production, and we don’t buy ready-made games from elsewhere.”
Many companies buy ready-made escape games, for example, from abroad, in which case many different companies can have the same game, only with a different name. Also with business acquisitions, the same games can change location from one city to another.
Below are some examples of companies that sell escape games:
Industroom
Ready-made games, props, tasks, etc. Link to pages
Escape Room Supplier
Ready-made games and tasks for escape rooms. Link to pages
Escape Room Franchise
Was one of the biggest producers of escape games, especially in the early days of escape rooms. Link to pages
TrapFactory Hungary
Has also been in operation since the early days of escape rooms. Link to pages
Escapology
One of the biggest producers of escape games. Link to pages
There is no harm in buying ready-made games, as long as the companies have somewhere told where the game is from in the first place. If several escape game companies buy the same games and only change the introductory text and the name, then at some point more and more people will end up playing the same escape room again just because they didn’t know that the game in question was already available at another company.
It would be a bit the same as if you went to the cinema to watch a movie and at the very beginning you noticed that “this is the same movie that we have already seen, but with a different name!”.
We have been designing and building games since 2015 and when playing with us you can be sure that our games are completely unique! 🙂