The Escapists 2
Worth it · Strategy · 2017
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
$19.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9975% offWorth it
- Cost per hourA
- $1.18/hr
- ReviewsA
- 91% of 33,963
- Critics
- 75 players 16 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 3% Strategy
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 17h
- To 100%
- 59.7h 3.5x the story
- Achievements
- 58
Price and sales
- Sales
- 83 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $3.99 December 2025
- Sale every
- 36d last September 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 280 now
- Recent reviews
- 87% 30 days
- Cheaper than
- 7% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 96% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
87% start to <1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 83 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 75 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 3 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 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 Tinkerlands ($12.99, scores 66).
More about The Escapists 2
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, 23 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2024 to October 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,604 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 674 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 2,172 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.
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
Pretty good overall, but the prison creator is lacking. Its missing alot of content that is in the premade prisons.
2 more reviews
fun game with friends, takes a bit to get the hang of it but overall fun and you can troll your friends
Really fun 2d prison escaper Originally I had bought this game on PS but I bought it for PC because of the map maker and workshop. The game has really cute graphics and a good humour. The game also has crafting and puzzle solving. There is an Escapists 3 coming next year as well.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
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?
Minimum specs
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.
Cite this score
The Escapists 2 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/641990/the-escapists-2Reviews 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 5, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.