The Escape: Together
Skip · Multiplayer · 2023 · Early Access
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 43, under the fair line, at $3.99.
- Length
- 3h
- Value
- $1.33/hr
- Reviews
- 78% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($2.39)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($1.99)
- Last discount ended
- 29 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 760 / AMD Radeon HD 7870, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Escape: Together is a 1-3 player Online CO-OP escape horror. The paranormal creature has taken over the house. You must use everything you find to survive and make your runaway.
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
The value story
The lowest price on record is $1.49, set in May 2024. Its cuts run 40 percent off as a rule. There have been 34 in the 4 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Value puts it in the top 22 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 81 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ghost Janitors ($6.69, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats PILGRIM ($5.59, scores 21).
This site sampled 720 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 40 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written January 2023 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 651 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 52 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 3 of the 40 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 854 reviews written there were positive, against 78 percent overall, and those are 42 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 3 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 7, 2.4 times as much.
The drop-off
62% start to 1% 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
What players say
The Escape: Together is a pretty standard co-op escape room horror game that is best enjoyed with friends. There aren't really any unique mechanics, but it does what it sets out to do. There are four levels in total, and the game is also quite affordable, which makes it easier to recommend. The main issues for me were the lack of an FOV. There are also quite a lot of reused assets, and many of the maps start to feel...
me and my guys all got the game in 2024 and played all the maps. Then we saw that a new map had dropped and we all decided to hop back on and play it, so much fun and most definitely recommend if you're trying to make memorable nights with your homies
I've played ~50 horror games like this, and this is genuinely one of the worst three. It's almost impressive how completely it fails at being a horror game. There's no tension, no atmosphere, no suspense, and barely any reason to keep playing. Every "scary" moment feels like the game politely informing you that something is supposed to be frightening. The gameplay is so repetitive that I eventually became more...
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Cite this score
The Escape: Together scores 43/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2242760/the-escape-togetherReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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