The Escapists 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $4.99.
- Length
- 17h
- Value
- $0.29/hr
- Reviews
- 91% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel 4400, GeForce GT 8800, AMD Radeon HD 4650, 4 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.99. That was December 2025. Its cuts run 75 percent off as a rule. There have been 83 in the 9 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today's $4.99 at 75 percent off still sits 25 percent above the floor, so a deeper cut exists in its history.
This sale is doing real work. 76 at list, 84 today.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 91 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 96 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Factorio ($35.00, scores 97) beats it on value, while it beats Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine ($14.99, scores 83).
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 16 points higher at 91 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Of the 799 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 25 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2024 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 378 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 2,160 reviews written there were positive, against 91 percent overall, and those are 8 percent of everything written about it.
17 hours to finish it, 60 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
87% 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
214 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
i stuck a bar of up another prisoners butt, and put a banana in my butt. 10/10 game
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 2 scores 84/100 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/641990/the-escapists-2The 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 Sep 12, price as of Sep 24.
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