Escape Room games recommendations

Well, I enjoy this genre myself and some games I've played that are similar in gameplay to Escape Academy that I'd recommend would be:
Escape Simulator, Discolored, The Guest, The House of Da Vinci 1-2, The Room 1-4, Tested on Humans: Escape Room, all the "We Were Here" games, Mad Experiments: Escape Room

And then for some other games you might enjoy that I've also played and enjoyed myself, they're also escape room but a bit different:
all games from the "Rusty Lake" developers, Agent A: A puzzle in disguise, Heal, Tick Tock: A Tale for Two

And here is two Escape Room games I have not played myself but they're on my wishlist, so maybe you'll find them interesting too:
The Inheritance of Crimson Manor, Escape From Mystwood Mansion

Hope you find something in here that you enjoy :D

I'd like to recommend a pretty short free game A Book of Beasts and Buddies. The "story" is filling in a bestiary, but the core gameplay is almost just like an escape room!

The Rusty Lake games have many similar games, that are played inside a room / in a small location - but they are point and click, not first person walkaround games.

The Initiate was interesting, and I try to figure out what was the name of another similarish game I played

edit: the second game is the minigame inside Dread X collection, called Outsiders

Besides what everyone else said, I recommend What Never Was. It's a short and free game, but I enjoyed it a lot

It's already been said, but worth saying again, Escape Simulator is my go-to when it comes to escape room games. Between the excellent DLCs they've released and the community workshop support, the amount of content in that game is crazy. For just mechanics and puzzle variety, I think it's the top game you can get. If story and such is important, other's might have more to offer though.

It's also worth mentioning that the price of it will go up on April 2nd, since they're adding VR support to it. So it might be worth grabbing before then if interested.

I might be repeating some recommendations but the Myst series- escape island rather than escape room. The room series and house of da vinci games! Also boxes lost fragments, looks very similar to the room but I haven't personally played it yet. Escape simulator and we were here are both fun to play with friends. Escape memoirs fits the genre. Confabulation is fun if you like horror. Escape from mystwood mansion is a good one, I feel like it has similar vibes to Escape academy! That's all I can remember at the moment. Happy puzzling :)

Escape room type games are some of my favorite games. It does depend on how you classify the genre though, as it's sort of a lose definition in a sense.

If you consider games like Myst to be in the same genre or close enough then I've got plenty of suggestions. With that in mind some of these may not be your cup of tea, but I will also second what others have said about some of the games.

The ones I will also vouch for are Escape Simulator (best bang for your buck, since it has user generated content), The House of Da Vinci 1-3 (3rd one is a little meh but still fun), Rusty Lake series (and all other games by them), Mad Experiment: Escape Room (not the best, but passable), and The Room 1-4

My additions for purely escape room style games:
If you have VR:
Abode
The Room VR: A Dark Matter

These ones are kinda meh at times, but still good. A tad short for my liking, but they're relatively cheap especially on sale:
Alumni
A Last Will and Testament: Adventure (I've reviewed this one if you want to take a look)
Between Time: Escape Room
Tested on Humans: Escape Room
Palindrome Syndrome: Escape Room
Regular Factory: Escape Room

These that are less escape room and just general Puzzle Adventure type and sort of Escape Room adjacent:
Myst
Riven
Obduction
Quern - Undying Thoughts
Oneiros
Black Mirror (started BM 2 but haven't gotten around to finishing it)
The Witness
The Pillar

And there's a game that has not yet released, but I was lucky enough to be a tester for the game for a while, on and off (you'll see me in the credits when it's out!)
Blue Prince

I can't say much about the game, as I am still under NDA, but I highly recommend checking it out when it releases. ESPECIALLY if you like escape rooms and puzzles and such.

I have a few others in my library I'm probably forgetting at the moment, and even more I have yet to get around to playing. But I hope you have fun with some of these suggestions!

Zero Escape series, but it's a VN game. First 2 games.
Puzzles are cool but mostly you will find yourself reading text's.

Thank you for your recommendations! I'll keep an eye on every one of them.
By the way, I also found and finished "Dr Livingstone, I presume? - Reversed Escape Room" and I found it short but nice.

Super basic, but i really enjoyed The Room series (that Daniel already mentioned). I agree with Almeck that The Myst series is also great, with Riven as it stand-out, and Zero Escape Nonary Games, like yourshk mentioned, is also great, The 7th Guest is another classic.

The Stanley Parable???
i got the closet ending and have told all my friends

Dope, I need to skim through this and add some games to wishlist.

there's a collection for smartphone called "escape game collection" they have many scenarios no text lots of hamster and it's free

Amazon Games is giving - at least in my region - Faraway now. There are 3 of them: Jungle, Arctic and Puzzle.

CRIMSON ROOM｜大人ゲーム王国 for Yahoo! ゲーム　かんたんゲーム
https://y.honkakuha.success-games.net/game/su-56-crimsonroom/
🤔It reminds me of a game from a long time ago in 2004.
"Crimson Room Rebirth" - I think this one was in English. The above link is only in Japanese.

...OLD English ver Found.
Crimson Room : Toshimitsu Takagi : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
https://archive.org/details/crimsonroom_flash#loading

I remember having a blast playing through the mountain of escape room Flash games back in the day. One i remember is The Great Room Escape series from Armor Games, 5 games + the epilogue The Great House Escape.
Have fun

Humble Bundle now has a Escape Rooms pack.
I will give some games of it as I already have them.