Escape Simulator

Escape Simulator is the closest thing to a real escape room you can play from separate houses. It is a first-person puzzler where you can pick up, rotate and smash almost everything in the room, and the rooms themselves were designed with input from real-life escape room operators. Pine Studio describes the co-op as best with 2-3 players but playable with more, so it suits a small team rather than a whole department.

The reason it keeps showing up on virtual game night lists is the level editor: thousands of community-made rooms mean the game does not run out after the campaign. It is a paid download on Steam and other stores rather than a browser game, so plan for install time before the session — this is the one pick here that your group cannot join from a link in the chat. OPG does not sell or host it; the Play button opens Pine Studio's own page.