The Escapists
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $17.99.
- Length
- 19.4h
- Value
- $0.93/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia GeForce 8000, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series, 2 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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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The value story
The lowest price on record is $3.59, set in October 2022. 107 discounts in the 12 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 17 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Escapists 2 ($4.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($0.99, scores 17).
The press gave it 71; the people who bought it give it 90 percent. A 19-point gap in the buyer's favour.
Of the 599 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 12 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 1,501 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 11 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 44, 2.3 times as much.
The drop-off
23% 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
Players
45 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
You might need some patience to play this - it's not particularly action-packed - but the point is the buildup and it does that perfectly. Definitely would rate it at like 8/10 or more, personally.
I would say that it's a fun game, and it is, but its also very technical and difficult, even the very easy level of center peaks is hard for me, I don't know if that's just because I'm bad at the game, but...
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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The Escapists scores 76/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/298630/the-escapistsThe 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 Aug 1, price as of Sep 24.
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