Escape Simulator
Worth it · Strategy · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99, a BANGER if it drops to $8.44.
- Cost per hour▼
- $1.31/hr
- ReviewsS
- 94% of 19,501
- Critics
- 82 players 12 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 1% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Score at full price
Score today
Watch this gameOne alert at $8.44 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 7.6h
- To 100%
- 15.6h 2.1x the story
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 54 on record
- Typical cut
- 30% off
- Steam low
- $7.99 September 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 334 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 98% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
96% start to 3% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
54 discounts in the 5 years on record, a median of 30 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. The math puts its BANGER price at $8.44. The record reaches that level 2 times.
Its score sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. The nearest things to it, We Were Here Together ($12.99, scores 58) and We Were Here Too ($9.99, scores 49), are both worse buys on this math.
More about Escape Simulator
82 from critics against 94 percent from players, and the player number comes from people who own the game.
35 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2023 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 73 percent of the 1,330 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
7.6 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.1 times the campaign.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, and at 7.6 hours it is short enough to finish on one.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Hi Pine Studio, I just wanted to say thank you for making this game. Whilst I didn't play through it as much as my wife did, she played every single DLC, and knew every puzzle by heart, and if she were still here, I'd absolutely let her drag me through this game from start to end. She loved how creative this game was, she always loved puzzles, and it always made me smile watching her solve them, so I just wanted to...
1 more review, not recommended
Solid puzzle game, it's a shame this studio fell down the generative AI pipeline.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, DX10-capable GPU, 18 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Escape Simulator scores 82/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1435790/escape-simulatorReviews 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 Nov 8, price as of Nov 8. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.