A Way Out
Fair · Action · 2020
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $8.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $1.50/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650Ti 2GB, AMD Radeon HD 7750 2GB, 25 GB of storage. Windows only.
A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.
What drives the score
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $2.99. That was December 2024. It has been discounted 51 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today's $8.99 at 70 percent off still sits 201 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 47 at list, 65 today.
On value it sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 93 percent. Among the games that feel like it, It Takes Two ($11.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Unravel Two ($4.99, scores 52).
78 from critics against 88 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 3,582 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 5 percent of everything written about it.
The rating rests on 102,914 reviews, so it is not going to move much from here.
The drop-off
53% start to 3% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
262 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A Way Out was a pretty interesting co-op experience, and overall I can say I enjoyed it. What I liked the most was the story. The relationship between Leo and Vincent is well handled, and the game does a good job showing their parallel lives, different personalities, and the reasons that pushed both of them into the situation they're in. I also liked the small hints spread throughout the game - if you pay enough...
Ok game but wait for a deep sale before buying. Good story but Its a one and done kind of game. Im giving it a postitave review, but i really wish there was an option for neutral review as its just to short to pay full price for.
looks gorgeous, and is directed like a movie. play the entire thing in one sitting if possible. read NOTHING about it. go in totally blind. 12/10 genuinely made me feel every emotion.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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A Way Out scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1222700/a-way-outThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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