About Epic Scape
You are the character.
Epic Scape is a mobile-first adventure engine that turns the world around you into a playable story filled with mysteries and puzzles.
Epic Scape is a Real-World Adventure Game
Epic Scape transforms a specific venue or brand into an adventure game. Physical spaces and objects are no longer just settings; they are the game itself. The result is a seamless adventure where your reality and the story are one.
Players move through connected challenges to discover new meanings at their own pace. What a player sees is part of the narrative.
What Epic Scape Is Built On
Epic Scape shares two essential foundations with classic escape rooms:
- a series of interconnected puzzles
- a clear theme and a narrative framework
These elements form the backbone of every Epic Scape adventure. They create continuity, meaning, and a sense of progression that ties the experience together.
From there, Epic Scape evolves beyond escape rooms. We take those core mechanics and liberate them into expansive, real-world environments. Instead of being locked in a room, players engage with the world freely.
You Are the Character
At the core of Epic Scape is a simple idea: games give players 100% agency.
Epic Scape creates a temporary space where new forms of agency become possible. While many games focus on controlling a character, Epic Scape removes this separation. The player does not guide an avatar; the player is the character.
The player is the character, acting directly in the real environment. Movement, observation, decisions, and discoveries happen through the player's own body and perspective.
This is immersion through agency.
Where Epic Scape Comes From
Epic Scape is an independent game studio shaping the future of spatial gaming. Each adventure is designed, written, and crafted by game designers in collaboration with the venue or the brand.
By blending AI and augmented reality, we create experiences that were previously impossible.
Every Epic Scape adventure is a curated game, designed to fit the brand.
Epic Scape – You are the character.
Our Story
From parks to cultural venues across Helsinki
Spring: The Beginning
Epic Scape was founded in Helsinki after early tests in Kaisaniemi and Töölönlahti parks.
Summer: Organic Growth
With zero money spent on ads, over 3,000 players joined the first games during summer 2024.
100% word-of-mouth growth
Year One: Expanding Horizons
Within its first year, the project expanded into libraries, museums and festivals.
Based at Maria 01
Epic Scape operates from Maria 01, the leading startup campus in the Nordics.
About Me
Jyri Puhakka – Founder of Epic Scape & Independent Game Developer
I'm a self-taught full-stack game designer with a background in special education and over 15 years of teaching experience. Today, I create immersive, location-based games that blend escape room mechanics with storytelling, pedagogy, and modern web technologies. I collaborate with venues that value stories.
Epic Scape is where my passions meet: learning, mystery, and movement.
My work is shaped by my experience as a special education teacher, certified work supervisor, and game-based learning consultant.
My North Star is to create moments of wonder: where puzzles, mysteries, and the world around us come alive in unexpected ways.