Escape the Night season 1

Escape the Night
Season 1
Promotional poster for season one.
No. of contestants	11
Winners	Joey Graceffa Eva Gutowski Oli White
No. of episodes	10
Release
Original network	YouTube Red
Original release	June 22 (2016-06-22) – August 17, 2016 (2016-08-17)
Season chronology

The first season of Escape the Night premiered on YouTube Red on June 22, 2016, and concluded on August 17, 2016, after 10 episodes. Created and hosted by Joey Graceffa, the season follows Graceffa, playing "The Savant," as he invites ten fellow internet personalities to a dinner party at an estate trapped in the year 1920, where each guest assumes a persona from the Roaring Twenties. Isolated from the outside world, the guests must survive the night by solving puzzles, voting one another into lethal challenges, and unraveling the estate's dark history in order to escape.

Though presented within a scripted horror narrative, the season's competitive elements — the group votes and the outcomes of most death challenges — were genuinely contested, making the series a hybrid of scripted horror drama and reality competition. Three guests — Graceffa, Eva Gutowski, and Oli White — survived the season and escaped the estate.

Format

Eleven guests, including Graceffa as host-participant, are trapped inside an estate that exists in the year 1920, each dressed and acting as an era-appropriate persona. After the first guest is killed by the evil controlling the house, a hidden letter establishes the season's objective: four artifacts scattered across the estate must be recovered and cleansed before anyone can leave, at the cost of further lives. Midway through the season, a second objective is revealed — the house draws its strength from its five former owners, and all five must be freed before the evil can be banished.

Each episode generally follows a recurring structure. The guests work together through a chain of puzzles, séances, and searches that culminates in a lethal challenge tied to that episode's antagonist. The group then votes two guests into the challenge, typically by drawing names from a hat; in some episodes, the nominated guests select other guests as partners who compete on their behalf. The loser of the challenge dies and is eliminated from the season, and the group recovers that episode's artifact or frees that episode's owner. Variations occurred throughout the season: in the premiere, the entire group competed to save the poisoned guest; in the third episode, the group vote itself selected the victim, with no intervening challenge; in the fifth, both nominated guests were spared; and the finale replaced the vote and challenge with an escape sequence in which the surviving guests evaded the season's villains while completing a final puzzle chain.

While the storyline, characters, and certain deaths were scripted, the voting and the outcomes of the death challenges were largely genuine and determined by the guests' own decisions and performances, a hybrid structure comparable to earlier narrative reality series such as Murder in Small Town X, Whodunnit?, and The Quest. Two deaths in the season were predetermined by production: Shane Dawson's, due to filming schedule constraints, and GloZell Green's, due to a leg injury she sustained during the series.

Production

In October 2015, the subscription service then known as YouTube Red revealed upcoming projects such as Fight of the Living Dead, A Trip to Unicorn Island (2016), Single by 30, and Scare PewDiePie. These included an untitled Joey Graceffa project involving a murder mystery. A year later, the service teased clips of the upcoming series. Sam Gutelle, a writer for Tubefilter, described the potential series as "the board game Clue" which turns the party "into a whodunit, with each guest transformed into a suspect." Graceffa, the creator of the series, revealed in a Teen Vogue interview that the idea for the project had been in the works for two years, and that he most looked forward to collaborating with other YouTubers.

Guests

Joey Graceffa

Lele Pons

Timothy DeLaGhetto

Matt Haag

GloZell Green

Justine Ezarik

Shane Dawson

Guests from the first season of Escape the Night

Guest	Persona	Status	Cause of Death
Joey Graceffa	The Savant	Escaped (Episode 10)	—N/a
Eva Gutowski	The Journalist
Oli White	The Big Game Hunter
Lele Pons	The Hustler	Dead (Episode 9)	Electrocuted by the learning chair
Timothy DeLaGhetto	The Mobster	Dead (Episode 8)	Shot himself playing Russian roulette
Matt Haag	The Professor	Dead (Episode 7)	Ingested poison twice
Sierra Furtado	The Heiress	Dead (Episode 6)	Demonically possessed and convulsed to death
GloZell Green	The Jazz Singer	Dead (Episode 4)	Choked on her own blood after her name was written in the murder journal
Justine Ezarik	The Gambler	Dead (Episode 3)	Buried alive to reverse the Claws Ritual
Andrea Brooks	The Fixer	Dead (Episode 2)	Asphyxiated by gas from the Ungodly Machine
Shane Dawson	The Renegade	Dead (Episode 1)	Poisoned by the evil of the house

Cast

The estate's staff and inhabitants, along with the antagonists of each episode, were played by actors.

Recurring

Character	Played by	Role	Outcome
Arthur	Paul Chirico	The estate's butler, who guides the guests through the night	Revealed in Episode 9 as the one in league with the evil of the house; killed by his brother in Episode 10
Sarah	Katia Hayes	The maid	Killed by the butler's brother in Episode 10
Marvin	David Hutchison	The groundskeeper	Killed by the butler's brother in Episode 10

The former owners

Within the season's story, the house draws its strength from its five former owners, each of whom must be freed by the guests.

Owner	Played by	Introduced	Freed	Notes
David Santos	Danny Pardo	Episode 6	Episode 6	A priest who lost his faith after a failed exorcism; freed when the guests complete it
Madison Jones	Anastasia Zorin	Episode 7	Episode 7	Transformed into a mermaid; freed when the guests return her daughter's doll
Colin Wentworth	Zach Cramblit	Episode 8	Episode 8	A soldier obsessed with his lost gold; freed when the guests recover it
Vincent Wells	David Rispoli	Episode 9	Episode 9	A sanatorium patient tormented by hallucinations; freed when the guests survive three of them
The Butler's Brother	Kevin Foster	Episode 10	Episode 10	Imprisoned in the cellar by Arthur; upon release, kills Sarah, Marvin, and Arthur

Minor characters

• Lindsay Roetzel as Bellhop Girl, who delivers the invitations to the guests (episode 1)
• Chris Nielsen as the Rolls-Royce Driver, who drives the guests to the estate and is killed when the car explodes (episode 1)
• Scott Thewes as Dennis Mann, who brings the Ungodly Creature to life (episode 2)
• Romika Annabell Osorio as the Ungodly Creature, which emerges from the Ungodly Machine (episode 2)
• Michael Zazarino and Angelique Pereira as the Ungodly Machine's test subjects (episode 2)
• Zac Titus as Michael and Jay Washington as the Nervous Man, who helped conceal the second artifact (episode 3)
• Maddy Curley as Caroline Eastwick, who was buried alive to conceal the second artifact (episode 3)
• Andrew Stroud as Calvin, a serial killer who murdered his family and preserved them as mannequins (episode 4)
• Omar Deckard as Sam, the estate's guardian (episode 5)
• Kelcey Watson as the Ring Leader and Daniel Preda as Claudia the Ticket Master, of the carnival (episode 5)
• Mark McClain Wilson as Frederick, Madison's abusive husband, and Sofia Naccarato as Verona, her daughter (episode 7)

Notes:

Guest history

Voting history

Legend:

  Escaped the first season of Escape the Night.

  Guest was voted into a challenge and won.

  Guest was selected as a partner for a challenge competitor and won, saving their partner.

  Guest was selected as a partner for a challenge competitor and lost, causing their partner to die.

  Guests were to complete tasks to save a poisoned guest, but failed to save them.

  Guest was voted into a challenge and remained safe.

  Guest was declared safe from the challenge.

  Guest wasn't voted into a challenge but died.

  Guest was not voted into a challenge but instead voted to die.

  Guest wasn't voted into the challenge and was chosen to die by the guests voted in the challenge.

  Guest was voted into a challenge and died.

Escape The Night season 1 voting history

	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Voted Players	(None)	Andrea Lele	(None)	Joey Lele	Oli Timothy	Matt Sierra	Matt Timothy	Eva Timothy	Lele Oli	(None)
Challenge Winner(s)		Lele		Joey Lele	Oli Timothy	Matt	Timothy	Eva	Oli
Eliminated	Shane	Andrea	Justine	Glozell	(None)	Sierra	Matt	Timothy	Lele
Joey	Safe	Andrea	Timothy	Glozell	Oli	Sierra	Timothy	Timothy	Joey	Escaped
Eva		Andrea	Justine	Safe	Matt	Andrea	Matt	Joey	Eva
Oli		Eva	Justine	Matt	Sierra	Matt	Matt	Joey	Oli
Lele		Matt	Justine	Matt	Matt	Matt	Matt	Eva	Lele
Timothy		Lele	Justine	Safe	Sierra	Sierra	Eva	Eva
Matt		Lele	Lele	Lele	Oli	Sierra	Eva
Sierra		Andrea	Justine	Safe	Timothy	Matt
Glozell		Eva	Justine	Joey
Justine		Andrea	Timothy
Andrea		Joey
Shane	Dead

Challenge history

Legend:

  The guest was eliminated but was never voted for a challenge.

  The guest was eliminated after their first time being voted for a challenge.

  The guest was eliminated after their second time being voted for a challenge.

  The guest was eliminated after their third time being voted for a challenge.

Episode	Guest(s)			Challenge	Eliminated	Cause of Death
1	Everyone			Everyone had to complete a series of impossible tasks to gain the cure to the poison that Shane Dawson had ingested.	Shane Dawson	Poisoned by the Evil of the House.
2	Andrea Brooks	vs.	Lele Pons	Their chosen partners had to complete a series of tasks involving the wiring and piping with the first to finish causing their partner to escape, but the other's tank to be filled with poisonous gas.	Andrea Brooks	Inhaled noxious gas produced by the Ungodly Machine.
3	Everyone			The guests had to vote for one of their friends to be buried alive and then be the ones to bury them.	Justine Ezarik	Buried alive to reverse the Claws Ritual.
4	Joey Graceffa	vs.	Lele Pons	They had to do tasks involving mannequins to get keys to open a drawer which was revealed to contain a Murder Journal in which they had to write one name.	GloZell Green	Choked on her own blood after Joey wrote her name in the Murder Journal.
5	Oli White	vs.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	Need to perform in a circus show and receive points for whoever did better and whoever got the least points would supposedly die.	None	The Ring Master spared their lives.
6	Matt Haag	vs.	Sierra Furtado	Sierra had to hold down a possessed girl and recite a prayer whilst Matt needed to perform a ritual around them. Unbeknownst to either, a rosary involved in Matt's task would kill the person who wore it.	Sierra Furtado	Demonically possessed and convulsed to death.
7	Matt Haag	vs.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	Needed to organize a doll house correctly to get the vials. Winner got to choose which vial they drank, one was poisoned, the other was not.	Matt Haag	Ingested poison twice.
8	Eva Gutowski	vs.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	They had to take part in a game, which was a hybrid of Battleship and Russian Roulette.	Timothy DeLaGhetto	Shot himself in the head while playing Russian Roulette.
9	Lele Pons	vs.	Oli White	Their chosen partners had to throw rings. However, with every miss their partner would be electrocuted, and whoever's partner finished last would have their chair overloaded with electricity.	Lele Pons	Electrocuted by the Learning Chair.

Episodes

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"An Invitation"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)
Haunted by dreams of a house "built without hands," Joey inherits a remote estate and invites ten friends to a dinner party on its grounds, asking each to dress as a persona from the 1920s. During the party, Eva and Shane witness the maid dragging a body upstairs; at dinner, Shane collapses, poisoned by the evil of the house. Group Challenge: The guests have fifteen minutes to solve three puzzles and unlock the three bottles containing the divided antidote. Only one group succeeds — Joey, Eva, and GloZell, who find a key hidden inside a painting — and Shane dies with the antidote incomplete. Eliminated: Shane Dawson (The Renegade) — died of poison. Revelation: A letter hidden on Shane's body reveals that a dark magic controls the house, that the Society Against Evil has left its symbol around the estate to mark clues, and that four artifacts must be recovered and cleansed before anyone can leave — at the cost of more lives. Notes: The guests attempt to flee, but their car explodes with the driver inside, sealing them within the estate. There is no vote in this episode; the season's voting mechanism is introduced in the following episode.
2	2	"The Ungodly Machine"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	June 22, 2016 (2016-06-22)
A flashback shows the basement machine being charged by the deaths of two abducted test subjects. In the present, the guests must locate the first artifact. Investigation: A spirit-board séance spells out "books," leading to eight volumes hidden across the first floor; the books yield a code opening the severed hand, which leads to a chess-arrangement puzzle and then to the ballroom, where elemental symbols produce the combination (2358) to a cabinet revealing that the Ungodly Machine below must be driven to malfunction. Voted into the challenge: Andrea and Lele (drawn from a hat at Arthur's suggestion). Andrea's chosen partner: Justine Lele's chosen partner: Eva Death Challenge: The nominees are sealed in gas capsules wired to the machine while their partners race through three sabotage puzzles — decoding a lever blueprint, retrieving a screw from iced water, and rewiring a control panel. The first partner to force a malfunction frees their player; the loser's capsule floods with gas. Challenge Winner: Eva, freeing Lele. Eliminated: Andrea Brooks (The Fixer) — asphyxiated by the machine's gas. Artifact: The first artifact is recovered and shelved. Notes: Justine's suggestion that Andrea's death may have been for the best turns the group against her, with several accusing her of deliberate sabotage. Oli finds a note warning that one among the group is in league with the evil of the house; suspicion initially falls on Joey.
3	3	"Buried Alive"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	June 29, 2016 (2016-06-29)
A flashback shows a young woman seized and buried alive on the estate grounds. In the present, the traitor's note has the guests openly accusing one another. Investigation: To contact the buried woman, Caroline Eastwick, the guests must gather three of her possessions to protect the séance — her scarf (hidden in a tissue box in the guest room), her emerald earrings (in the back of a jewelry box), and a lock of her hair (a blonde wig in a hidden bathroom). The séance succeeds: Caroline directs them to her coffin near a red stone, its key reached by "the low road." The coffin proves empty except for a note: Caroline was buried alive to conceal the second artifact, and another person must be buried alive to reverse the ritual. Vote: The guests vote directly on who will be buried alive; there is no challenge. Justine is drawn. She attempts to flee but is caught by Marvin, the groundskeeper, and the group buries her themselves. Eliminated: Justine Ezarik (The Gambler) — buried alive to reverse the Claws Ritual. Artifact: The second artifact is unearthed from the reopened grave, alongside a sealed wooden box of unknown purpose. Notes: This is the only episode of the season in which the vote itself is the elimination mechanism, with no intervening challenge.
4	4	"Mannequins"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 6, 2016 (2016-07-06)
A flashback introduces Calvin, a serial killer who murdered his family and preserved them as mannequins. In the present, GloZell accuses Joey of feigning grief over Justine. Investigation: Smashing the mystery box yields a slip reading "IDLE"; converted to alphabet positions (9-4-12-5) and set on a four-handed clock, it exposes a library keyhole and a photograph of the foyer staircase, where the key is hidden behind loose wood. The key opens a hidden room of mannequins — Calvin's murdered family, one figure short. Meanwhile, Tim and Sierra slip away to a car outside, recovering a "slow down" note, a key by the brake, and the missing fifth mannequin from the trunk, completing the dinner scene. Voted into the challenge: Joey and Lele, sent upstairs to play "perverse games" for the third artifact. Death Challenge: A series of party games with the mannequins yields a combination opening a drawer containing a murder journal: the next name written in it will die a horrible death. Lele argues for Matt; Joey writes GloZell's name. Eliminated: GloZell Green (The Jazz Singer) — coughed up blood and died after her name was written in the murder journal. Joey and Lele both survive the challenge. Artifact: The third artifact is recovered. Notes: Joey urges Lele to conceal their role in GloZell's death; when Matt erupts, Lele admits the truth, telling him it was a choice between him and GloZell. The episode ends with an inhuman roar as Arthur announces the house has released its guardian.
5	5	"Freak Show"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 13, 2016 (2016-07-13)
With the guardian stalking the grounds, Joey returns from his encounter with a circus ticket. Investigation: The guests trace an orange scent to a ticket box dispensing two clown masks that render their wearers invisible to the guardian, and search the grounds in rotating pairs. A key in a birdbath opens the pool house, where a mirror-code puzzle inside nested chests produces a music box; its melody summons a ringmaster who leashes the guardian and opens a carnival containing the final artifact. Voted into the challenge: Oli and Timothy. Death Challenge: The two perform before a carnival crowd in three events — a strongman bell (won by Oli), juggling (failed by both), and a tightrope walk (won by Tim) — after which the audience votes on who dies. Both are locked into a dunk tank said to contain piranhas, and both are dunked. Eliminated: None — the tank proves harmless, and the Ring Leader spares both lives. This is the season's only episode without an elimination. Artifact: The fourth and final artifact is recovered. Notes: With all four artifacts assembled, the guests prepare the ritual they believe will banish the evil.
6	6	"Did Someone Call For An Exorcist?"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 20, 2016 (2016-07-20)
A flashback shows a priest failing an exorcism and losing his faith. In the present, the binding ritual — Sierra wrapping the center artifact in black coil while Matt reads the invocation — fails as the artifacts topple. Investigation: A hidden black box leads Joey and Tim to David Santos, the priest, imprisoned in the back basement. He reveals the season's true objective: the house draws strength from its five former owners, all of whom must be freed before the demon can be banished. His own freedom requires completing the exorcism he abandoned. Split into teams, the guests recover a rosary from a cabinet keyed to Revelations 13:1 (arranging seven demon names alphabetically) and prepare holy water by solving a Roman-numeral equation hidden in a painting of Saint Peter (five cups of water plus tabernacle dust). Voted into the challenge: Matt and Sierra. Matt volunteers, citing his knowledge of exorcisms, then withdraws just before the vote — angering the group, several of whom vote for him anyway. Death Challenge: Sierra must restrain the possessed girl while praying without pause; Matt performs the ritual's steps around them. The concealed final instruction reveals that the rosary kills whoever wears it — Matt may place it on Sierra or on himself. Eliminated: Sierra Furtado (The Heiress) — demonically possessed and convulsed to death after Matt, rushing through the instructions, placed the rosary on her. Owner Freed: David Santos, the priest (first of five). Notes: The group is horrified to learn Matt could have sacrificed himself instead.
7	7	"Mermaid Tails"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	July 27, 2016 (2016-07-27)
The priest's notebook identifies the next owner as Madison, a woman transformed into a mermaid after her abusive marriage, found chained in an upstairs room. She will be freed only when the guests return her daughter's doll. Investigation: The key to Madison's room is found inside a small golden globe. Her instructions require weighing her victims' names in coins — each name counted out in coins matching its letters, the total weight forming a safe's combination — luring her mermaid sisters from the pool with a recorded song (trapping them in the pool house), retrieving her three victims' bodies and a chest from the water, and solving a code counted from moon phases on turtle statues around the pool. The safe's final compartment holds a stone tablet ordering two guests into the doll room on the third floor. Voted into the challenge: Matt and Timothy — with resentment still burning over the exorcism and Matt having withdrawn from helping the group. Death Challenge: Both drink poison, then must recreate three nursery rhymes using dolls in their dollhouses; mistakes bring more poison, success supposedly an antidote. Both finish and each receives a vial. Eliminated: Matt Haag (The Professor) — declaring himself certain he had won, he drank his vial, which was poison. A note reveals neither vial was the antidote, which was fastened behind the drawer. Owner Freed: Madison (second of five), released when Tim returns with the doll. Notes: The episode closes with the remaining five guests asking who must be freed next.
8	8	"All Out War"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	August 3, 2016 (2016-08-03)
The next owner is Collin, a soldier consumed by obsession with his lost gold. Presented with a gold bar, he agrees to help the guests — and warns them they are standing in a war zone. Investigation: Under Collin's covering fire, the guests advance into the backyard battlefield guided by radio instructions. Eva destroys an enemy-held building with a grenade, and the group recovers a locked briefcase whose code yields the key to Collin's chest of gold. Joey and Oli complete a task sealed inside a bunker while the others take up rifles to hold off attacking soldiers. Voted into the challenge: Eva and Timothy. Death Challenge: A game combining Battleship with Russian roulette — each player arranges troops on a hidden grid, and every successful strike forces the player hit to fire a revolver at their own head. Eliminated: Timothy DeLaGhetto (The Mobster) — after Eva survived one forced pull, Tim declared he would rather die himself than watch her fire again; on the next strike against him, he pulled the trigger and the chamber fired. Owner Freed: Collin Wentworth (third of five). Eva demands to know whether the gold was worth it; "Yes," he answers in a hollow voice before vanishing. Notes: Before the vote, Oli warns Eva that Joey plans to vote her in, and the two form an alliance against him — the first explicit alliance of the season.
9	9	"Wicked Hallucinations"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	August 10, 2016 (2016-08-10)
A flashback opens in a sanatorium, where a doctor administers electric shocks to his patient Vincent as "learning" whenever he describes his visions — until Vincent slips his restraints, kills the doctor, and returns to the manor. The guests find him straitjacketed in the attic: the fourth owner. To free him, they must survive three of his hallucinations, mapped across the grounds. Investigation (Hallucinations 1 and 2): In the greenhouse, the guests assemble a "plant man" from buried body parts while a creature claws at them through the walls; the completed monster destroys their attacker, yielding the first key. At a circle of standing stones, a masked swordswoman presides over hanging masks, five of which match riddles — each wrong choice ejects a guest from the vision. Oli is cast out mid-trial; the final mask proves to be the swordswoman's own, and unmasking her faceless visage costs Lele her place before the group flees with the second key. Voted into the challenge: Lele and Oli — for the final hallucination, each guest places their own name in the hat to prevent hard feelings. Lele's partner: Joey Oli's partner: Eva Death Challenge: In the doctor's electroshock chamber, the nominees are strapped into "learning" chairs while their partners toss metal rings at posts. Every miss delivers a shock; the slower team's chair overloads at the time limit. Challenge Winners: Eva and Oli. Eliminated: Lele Pons (The Hustler) — electrocuted when her chair overloaded. Owner Freed: Vincent (fourth of five). Notes: Freed, Vincent unmasks the traitor foretold in the second episode: Arthur, the chief of staff, is the one in league with the evil of the house. The final three flee for their lives as the episode ends.
10	10	"Betrayal At The House On The Hill"	Adam Lawson	Adam Lawson	August 17, 2016 (2016-08-17)
A flashback narrated by Arthur reveals his past as a confidence man who poisoned his wealthy wife on their anniversary before being summoned to the estate, intent on controlling the evil within it. His staff capture Joey, Eva, and Oli, and Arthur reveals that the entire night has served his scheme: he needed the artifacts gathered and the owners driven out to claim the house, and the earlier binding ritual was deliberately false. The three are chloroformed and chained in a hidden torture room. Escape: Passing a poker between them to open their locks, the guests find Arthur's pocket watch and a note: they must leave the estate by sunrise at 6:00, or the serum they have been injected with will make them permanent servants of the house. Escaping through the butler's chambers with the true ritual diagram, they trigger an alarm; Arthur, Sarah, and Marvin fan out to hunt them, with capture meaning death. Final Investigation: Evading the patrols, the guests recover diamonds from the front fountain, which yield rubies; the rubies fit the eyes of a second-floor gargoyle, releasing an emerald; and a "spiral of pain" staircase leads to the key to a cell in the wine cellar holding the final owner. Owner Freed: The butler's brother (fifth of five), imprisoned by Arthur years before. Released, he takes his revenge — killing Sarah, then Marvin, and finally Arthur himself — before driving the guests inside to finish the ritual. Endgame: Eva and Oli gather the artifacts while Joey pockets the deed to the estate so it cannot fall into the wrong hands. The three complete the true ritual, banishing the evil, then bury the artifacts within the allotted five minutes and depart at dawn. Eliminated: None. Escaped: Joey Graceffa, Eva Gutowski, and Oli White. Notes: As the survivors leave, a crack briefly spreads across Joey's face and his eyes flash black before returning to normal; the closing narration reveals the evil has survived within him and will carry him to another era.

Reception

Critical response

On review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, Escape the Night Season 1 has a Tomatometer of 71%, based on 1 critic review. In his review, Andy Dehnart of Reality Blurred described the show as "lighthearted" and "campy," noting that while it's still finding its footing, it shows a lot of promise and could be seen as a worthy successor to Whodunnit?.

On Common Sense Media, critic Emily Ashby gave a more mixed evaluation. She called the series a "mediocre pseudo-reality horror" that leans heavily on YouTube personalities, and argued that while the ensemble cast and 1920s mansion setup provide some suspense, the plot feels formulaic and overacted. She also noted that the violence is fairly mild (albeit cinematic), and that there is "very little" in the way of positive role models, though some teamwork and intrigue emerge as strengths.

Awards and nominations

Award	Year	Category	Recipient(s) and nominee(s)	Result	Ref.
Streamy Awards	2016	Best Costume Design	Olivia Hines	Nominated
		Best Ensemble Cast	Escape the Night	Won

See also

• Murder in Small Town X
• The Murder Game
• Whodunnit?
• The Quest
• 13: Fear Is Real
• Killer Camp