The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Very Positive (243 reviews) - 83% of the 243 user reviews in the last 30 days are positive.
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Very Positive (9,808 reviews) - 91% of the 9,808 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date: 13 Feb, 2015

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Reviews

“dynamic, fun, and challenging”
90/100 – Games Beat

“The Escapists is a gratifying game that provides dozens of hours of entertainment. Planning an escape and watching it unfold is endlessly satisfying, and a successful breakout leaves you feeling jubilant”
8/10 – Gamespot

“As for me, I think I'm going to go back to Escapists for quite a while whenever I need to brush up on my puzzle skills simply because of how open-ended it is”
8/10 – Destructoid

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Our latest free content update includes a new challenge in the form of The London Tower Prison, inspired by one of the most famous British historical sites. How will you escape?

About This Game

The Escapists provides the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life and, as is the case with all inmates, the main objective is escape! While under the careful watch of the guards, players will need to go about their daily duties clandestinely secreting useful objects from under their captors’ noses. Potential escapees will learn how to craft seemingly innocuous items into useful tools and even weapons as well as using them to execute cunning diversionary tactics.

Players will need to learn when to keep in line, utilising their time sensibly as they develop their own personal plans of escape. Learning the prison’s daily routines and spotting opportunities are all part of life behind bars. Working out potential routes and even misdirecting guards soon become second nature.

Whilst remembering to attend roll-call, holding down their job and keeping their fellow inmates on side, players are can also benefit from advancing their character's statistics through various means including boosting their intellect and exercising regularly. Balance mundane routine with careful planning to attain your ultimate goal - escape and freedom!

Features



  • 8 Fully operational prisons complete with routines to give you a flavour of how it *really* is inside!
  • 10 Separate job opportunities for you to sink your teeth into… If you have the knowledge to earn and hold down these employment paths of course!
  • 185+ Unique Items for you to seek out and perhaps even craft useful items with. (Team17 fully endorse the use of various weapons such as ‘shivs’, ‘nunchucks’ and ‘maces’ – within a fictional setting of course!).
  • Various Favour types for you to tackle offered up by inmates – You wouldn't want to go upsetting them now, would you?
  • Highly opinionated and incredibly funny inmates and guards to keep you on your toes as well as providing entertainment!
  • Multiple escape routes for you to work out and achieve the title of ‘The Escapist’!
  • Multiple save slots so you can have more than one escape attempt on the go!
  • Steam Achievements to strive for.
  • Steam Leaderboards – Once you have escaped see how you fared against other successfully escaped players!
  • Prison Editor – Create from scratch your very own confinement masterpiece and share it with the community!

System Requirements

Windows
Mac OS X
SteamOS + Linux
    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows XP
    • Processor: Dual Core CPU 2.4 gHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia GeForce 8000, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Windows Compatible Card
    • Additional Notes: We recommend updating your PC's hardware drivers before playing. If your PC is no longer supported by your manufacturer and your hardware drivers are very old, you may experience difficulty running the game. Please check with your PC manufacturer for more details.
    Minimum:
    • OS: OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
    • Processor: 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 9400M or equivalent
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Additional Notes:
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit or later
    • Processor: Dual Core CPU 2.4 gHz
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia GeForce GT 8000, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series
    • Storage: 2 GB available space
    • Sound Card: Linux Compatible Card
    • Additional Notes:
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Recent:
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Pirate Queen Zoey
( 4.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 10 August
Honestly, not great. I'd suggest getting prison architect instead and playing escape mode, wish I'd bought that game instead.
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APEX
( 8.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 10 August
Great game, multiplayer would make it even better.
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callumoneill40
( 1.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
great game a bit hard but great
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Shooter McGavin
( 5.7 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
next time i go to prison, im definitely trying to knock out a guard with a cup of hot chocolate.
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Ruski
( 20.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
I LOVE THIS GAME :D <3!
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✪Mousealoon
( 26.1 hrs on record )
Posted: 9 August
The only interesting part is when u are about to escape
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Chef Boyardee
( 26.2 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
Still waiting on multi-player.
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Lbro20
( 5.4 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
We need multiplayer... otherwise, fun game
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Archlon
( 18.3 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
The escapists is overall great. It revolves around a lot of strategy (especially if you dont look the escape route up). New players get frustrated with the game because it is confusing, so ill give a couple tips:

1. Sniper guards go home at lights out
2. You can hide contraband in your toilet
3. Think of EVERYTHING.
4. Get crafting notes to learn how to craft things
5. Mess around a bit!

The issue is that Prison Architect is better. But it is easier to escape by simply burning the whole place down in that game, making it boring after a while.

Also check out the workshop for more prisons. Most of them are free and very timeconsuming!
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8-BITLORD
( 38.8 hrs on record )
Posted: 8 August
I like this game.

PROS
-Lots of prisons with more being added
-Its fun
-Its tense
-IT takes strategy
-Nice looking art style

CONS
-Gets a little boring after you do it long enough
-Bad tutorial

Overall i recommend getting it if its on SALE!
87/100
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Most Helpful Reviews  In the past 30 days
45 of 51 people (88%) found this review helpful
92 people found this review funny
Recommended
4.6 hrs on record
Posted: 21 July
Attempt #1
Crawl through the vents
FAILED

Attempt #2
Steal a guards clothing, weapons and key
FAILED

Attempt #3
Create a some clay, Beat up a guard and create a key mold out of a key and clay. Safely return the key back before the guard wakes up, Use the key at night time to bust out of the prison while no one is watching.
FAILED

Final Attempt
Beat up a guard with a soap in a sock
SUCCESS
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14 of 17 people (82%) found this review helpful
13 people found this review funny
Recommended
22.2 hrs on record
Posted: 12 July
- Do you enjoy breaking walls using plastic forks?
- Do you want to beat someone using a soap inside a sock as a weapon?
- Do you want to rob a book from Robert in order to deliver ir to... Robert?
- Do you want to be smart enough to escape thousands of prisons (workshop) but dumb enough to get caught again?
- Have you had enough building prisons in Prison Architect and decided to be a inmate in them?

Well, fear no more, The Escapists delivers all your needs into one simple game: Your goal is to be creative enough to escape prisons the fastest way possible, you can dig tunnels, you can do a revolution or just simply walk out using the keys, you decide! Some perks of this game are the workshop support, dlcs at a decent price, and tons of ways to beat the same maps, great devs and a good community all in all. Recommend buying it, you will have tons of fun (and stress for not getting the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ red key
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6 of 6 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
28.7 hrs on record
Posted: 23 July
I love this game, I've been wondering what a light-hearted yet realistic prison would look like. You'll find it here.
The community makes custom maps everyday so you will never run out of stuff to do

Get this game when it's on sale
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9 of 12 people (75%) found this review helpful
1 person found this review funny
Recommended
17.5 hrs on record
Posted: 17 July
The Escapists happens to be a very well-built game, but like all games, has it's fair share of flaws.

Pros
  • Very fun
  • Gives you an achievement for flooding 30 toilets
  • Comes with a prison designer (also known as the "Map Editor") so you can make your own levels and send them to the world

Cons
  • Can become tedious after a while
  • Your stats deteriorate a bit too quickly
  • The officers sometimes become suspicious when you're doing nothing wrong whatsoever

Overall, The Escapists is worth playing, and the addition of a mode where you play as an officer would be a very welcome one. After all, it would be fun to learn just what the officers do offscreen.
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6 of 7 people (86%) found this review helpful
4 people found this review funny
Recommended
8.2 hrs on record
Posted: 23 July
Wow! I'm amazed by this game! I didn't expect it to be that fun of a game!

Pros:
-Not Too Expensive!
-Workshop Maps!
-Family & Kid Friendly!
-Brain Trainer (Makes you create plans,frienships,learn schedules,etc.)

Cons:
-Sometimes Can Get Really Glitchy (Really Rare Tho)
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4 of 4 people (100%) found this review helpful
2 people found this review funny
Recommended
19.0 hrs on record
Posted: 24 July
This game is SUPER FUN! When you know how to play it, it's really fun.

Personally, I got the PC for the editor. I mainly play this game on my Xbox One.

There is 6 basic prisons. Each with twists, a snow one, a one where the guards are ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, and the one where it's 2.4% impossible. But, there is about 5-6 DLC Maps for money with special mechanics, and a Level Editor and Workshop for infinite levels!

For 6$ (for the sale) or $18, it's a really good game. IF you want a Editor, get the Computer verison. If you have a Xbox One, and don't care about creating levels and you want the 6 levels and DLC, get the PlayStation 4 or the Xbox One Edition (Xbox and PlayStation is alot easier.)
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
48.6 hrs on record
Posted: 25 July
It's the best game ever !!! I recommend you to buy this game if you like the story mode life but in this game is a unusual story in this game. Is a story where you need to escape from diferent jails. If you like this type of games i recommend you to watch at Prison Break. This is a very good serial. Escape Team and Duct Tapes are Forever is the best DLC in the world !! Buy this game !
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
Recommended
5.4 hrs on record
Posted: 8 August
We need multiplayer... otherwise, fun game
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2 of 2 people (100%) found this review helpful
1 of 1 people (100%) found this review helpful
2 people found this review funny
Recommended
2.7 hrs on record
Posted: 28 July
The 2 hours i have were me stuck on the first level. I'm still stuck on it.
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