The first season of Escape the Night premiered on Youtube Red on June 22, 2016 and concluded on August 17, 2016, with a total of 10 episodes. The premiere season showcased a total of ten guests invited to The Savant's party and required them to act and dress as various personas from the Roaring Twenties. Once there, isolated from the outside world and tasked with surviving the night and escaping the historical era.
In October 2015, the subscription service formerly 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. This also includes an untitled Joey Graceffa project that involves a murder mystery. A year later, the subscription service teased clips of their upcoming murder mystery series. Sam Gutelle, a writer from Tubefilter, described the potential series as "the board game Clue" which turns the party "into a whodunit, with each guest transformed into a suspect." Joey Graceffa, the creator of the series, revealed in a Teen Vogue interview that "the idea for the project has been in the works for two years, and that he most looked forward to collaborating" with other YouTubers.
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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 âÂÂlightheartedâ and âÂÂcampy,â noting that while itâÂÂs 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 âÂÂmediocre pseudo-reality horrorâ 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 âÂÂvery littleâ in the way of positive role models, though some teamwork and intrigue emerge as strengths.