The Escaper
BANGER · Narrative · 2020
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $3.99.
- Length
- 2h 3h to 100%
- Value
- $2.00/hr
- Reviews
- 94% of 777 positive
Watch this gameOne alert when it goes on sale.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.19 (20% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
3D escape room game with realtime graphics and physics-based puzzles.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Video card with 512MB of VRAM, 1 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 36 times in the 7 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 20 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 95 percent. The nearest things to it, The House of Da Vinci 3 ($19.99, scores 62) and The Search ($3.99, scores 30), are both worse buys on this math.
More about The Escaper
Of the 346 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 2 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 2 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
The drop-off
85% start to 14% 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
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 21:54 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
My wife and I completed the game in just under 5 hours. We give it a 7 out of 10. You will need a walk through for some of the puzzles. For $3.99 it's worth getting.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Before and after playing it, I read the reviews (obviously keeping an eye for the negative ones) and I truly don't understand why people are being negative and/or leave bad or "neutral" reviews for the game. It was fun to play, yes short (took a little bit more than 2 hours) but enjoyable nonetheless and it has the price of a coffee. The only times I was stuck were when I hadn't noticed a couple of things (not a...
The only reason I am giving thumbs down is to balance with the positive reviews, it's not a "very positive" worthy game, to me... Consider this a neutral from me. It's an average escape room/puzzle game with a couple of very unreasonable "puzzles" and a rather clunky interface.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
The Escaper scores 85/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1234520/the-escaperReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.