Action · February 13, 2015

The Escapists (2015)

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Just Updated FREE CONTENT UPDATE! Jingle Cells Following on from last year’s release of the free Santa’s Sweatshop content, our daring escapee elf unfortunately lost control of their sleigh mid-flight and was forced to make an emergency landing – right in the middle of the grounds of the Jingle Cells prison! Stuck doing hard time again, if you want to get home in time for the holidays you’ll need to sneak around the brand new wintery themed prison sourcing the unique items and crafting supplies that you’ll need to repair the sleigh and make another break for it! The Jingle Cells update features: New festive themed prison to escape 20 new items and craftables New leaderboard to make your mark on About the Game You’ve landed yourself in prison again, and your only chance is to engineer an escape by any means necessary. How you do it is up to you! Why not cause a prison riot? Or dig a tunnel right under the walls of the prison? Or even steal a guard uniform to blend in with your captors? The Escapists is a unique prison sandbox experience with lots of items to craft and combine in your daring quest for freedom. Life in prison will keep you on your toes with the strict rules that you’ll have to break. The guards are out to stop any escape attempts, so you’ll have to avoid suspicious behaviour by attending roll calls, working a prison job and hiding your stolen craftables. Escaping is what you do best, and you’ll have to prove your skills in a variety of challenging prisons from across the world. Become an Escapist now! Features 10 Fully operational prisons complete with routines to give you a flavour of how it *really* is inside! 10 Separate job opportunities for you to sink your teeth into… If you have the knowledge to earn and hold down these employment paths of course! 185+ Unique Items for you to seek out and perhaps even craft useful items with. (Team17 fully endorse the use of various weapons such as ‘shivs’, ‘nunchucks’ and ‘maces’ – within a fictional setting of course!). Various Favour types for you to tackle offered up by inmates – You wouldn't want to go upsetting them now, would you? Highly opinionated and incredibly funny inmates and guards to keep you on your toes as well as providing entertainment! Multiple escape routes for you to work out and achieve the title of ‘The Escapist’! Multiple save slots so you can have more than one escape attempt on the go! Steam Achievements to strive for. Steam Leaderboards – Once you have escaped see how you fared against other successfully escaped players! Prison Editor – Create from scratch your very own confinement masterpiece and share it with the community!

Action releases from 2015

146 Action titles launched in 2015 — top 6 by review volume.

Position in Action

MetricThis titleGenre position
Review volume16.1k Steam reviewsTop 29% in Action
Positive rating90% positiveGenre average: 83% — this title sits in top 37%
Metacritic71/100Genre average 77 — top 80% of Action titles
Engagement hours15 h averageTop 33% for session depth among Action

Community Tag Signals

Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.

  • Pixel Graphics · 1.1k
  • Strategy · 911
  • Crafting · 829
  • Singleplayer · 792
  • 2D · 697
  • Simulation · 684
  • Indie · 573
  • Action · 474
  • Survival · 455
  • Difficult · 455
  • Adventure · 420
  • Puzzle · 397
  • RPG · 335
  • Top-Down · 323
  • Multiplayer · 309

Peer Action titles

Comparable titles in the same genre and review-volume band — ranked by Steam positive percentage.

Reception Metrics

Steam community

90%Very Positive · 16.1k reviews

14.4k positive · 1.6k negative

Metacritic

71/100 critic aggregate

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Metacritic user score

6.7/10

Curator recommendations

14.2k

Press Quotes

“dynamic, fun, and challenging” 90/100 – Games Beat “The Escapists is a gratifying game that provides dozens of hours of entertainment. Planning an escape and watching it unfold is endlessly satisfying, and a successful breakout leaves you feeling jubilant” 8/10 – Gamespot “As for me, I think I'm going to go back to Escapists for quite a while whenever I need to brush up on my puzzle skills simply because of how open-ended it is” 8/10 – Destructoid

Features & Capabilities

Community

  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Trading Cards
  • Steam Workshop
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Leaderboards

Other

  • Single-player
  • Family Sharing

Localization Coverage

Interface / Subtitles (7)

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Spanish - Spain
  • Polish
  • Russian
  • Italian

Release & Availability

Release dateFeb 13, 2015
DeveloperMouldy Toof Studios
PublisherTeam17
Base price$3.59 -80%
DLC / Add-ons5 released
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Estimated owners1M–10M
External linksMetacritic page · [email protected]

Engagement Profile

All-time avg

15h

moderate (15–40 hours)

Median

6h

Typical completion time

Achievements

37

Steam unlocks available

Editions & Packages

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