Usability: Escape key should take you out of any game menus before opening main menu

130 votes

If you have a game menu open (like the Battle Results screen), pressing Escape should close that menu instead of opening the main menu on top of it.

Released! 🎉 Suggested by: James (16 May, '22) • Upvoted: 12 Nov, '23 • Comments: 5

Comments: 5

17 May, '22
Nate
Escape key should always close any open window. Currently, with one of the windows it doesn't close the window but opens the option menu.
18 May, '22
IATGOF
This is more of a bug to fix than a new feature to implement imo. The current behaviour is inconsistent, with Escape sometimes closing the menus as expected and sometimes showing the main menu instead.
23 Jun, '22
TheBlasterPastor Admin
"Escape out of menus" (suggested by Greenclonk on 2022-05-16), including upvotes (12) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.
23 Nov, '22
Moderator Admin
I marked it as "Partly released" as it should work like this in most instances now, and at least the most annoying places. But, there is a chance that the problem might re-occur when we release new menu elements. So please let us know if it is still a problem!
22 Feb, '23
Arseniy
It is still a problem. I can't close many modals with "Esc" key. Which is annoying tbh.