The Escapists
Worth it · Roguelike · 2015
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 8 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 80% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$17.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$3.5980% off
- Cost per hour
- $0.93/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 16,246
- Critics
- 71 players 19 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 9% Roguelike
Holding it back: Reach
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $3.59 or less.
Time and effort
- Typical playtime
- 19.4h
- To 100%
- 44.4h 2.3x the story
- Achievements
- 37
Price and sales
- Sales
- 108 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.59 October 2022
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 77 now
- Recent reviews
- 88% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 23% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 84% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
23% start to 1% rarestA game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
108 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score puts it in the top 9 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 77 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 84 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Mr.Mine (free, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66).
More about The Escapists
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 606 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 10 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 69 percent of the 1,506 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.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
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
great if you like retro games, but get escapists 2 if you want something easier and more polished (i still like this one more though)
2 more reviews
Super creative! This game is very creative! Gameplay looks pretty simple, but it's actually really hard. Without a guide or searching the internet, it'll take you hours just for the first level (which, before starting, says is "very easy". Imagine how hard other levels will be). Took me around 4 hours just for the first level - that is, with some googling and using guides. There are lots of ways to escape from what...
love this game. i m not that great of it as i m not the more patient person in the world but i never get bored of this game. 56 hour success the lower level twice but i will keep going and stay creative. recommend that for anyone wanting some good fun and time killer...
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About the game
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
The Escapists scores 76/100 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/298630/the-escapistsReviews 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 Oct 31, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.