Escape Machines
Skip · RPG · 2015 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $9.95/hr
- Reviews▼
- 41% of 694
- Genre rank
- Top 97% RPG
Holding it back: Cost per hour, Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 0.2h
- To 100%
- 0.3h 1.5x the story
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 51% off
- Steam low
- $0.13 November 2015
- Sale every
- 45d last November 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 88% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The value story
The value story
It has been discounted 83 times in the 12 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 51 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 3 days ago.
It is cheaper than 88 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. StarMade ($14.99, scores 15) outscores it, and so does Between the Stars ($29.99, scores 35). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Escape Machines
Inside the two-hour refund window, 40 percent of the 261 reviews written there were positive, against 41 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 3 days ago.
- 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
Surely, being in Early Access state since 2015 with promises to swtich to UE4 should already made you suspicious about this "project". While it's a solid "Alien Shooter"-like game based on Flash Player, it's literally 15-20 minutes game with no promising future (duh).
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Escape Machines is an addictive Science Fiction single/multi-player/co-op adventure shooter in the near future! Artificial intellect and robots fight against their creators. You must take control of the robots and save people.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0 Compatible, 553 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
Cite this score
Escape Machines scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/363490/escape-machinesReviews 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 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.