The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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Prices
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Availability
We put this game to every storefront we collect. A market that answered not sold has told us something about the game; a market we never asked has not, and the two are never drawn the same.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
About
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!
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!
Add-ons
Each DLC is estimated with the same model as a game, then summed — a modeled figure, not reported DLC sales.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, GOG, Epic publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
SteamYou are here | $2.49−90% | 16.2Kreviews | 90% | — | $1.3M |
| $19.99 | 11.3Kratings | 89% | — | not modelled | |
Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Reviews
Themes across 842 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The game was so difficult and I was never successful when I played it so many years ago, so I wanted to give it a try again after all these years. Unfortunately the game is literally unplayable due to missing a .cmap file? All maps are still locked after tutorial, and I got that missing file error because I tried accessing my old save. People said to delete the save folder and try again (it didn't work for me), or they found that windows defender was blocking the game from accessing files (no notifications for me). I've tried different ways and replayed the tutorial 3 times and nothing got saved. Not even the settings, every time I open the game the settings went back to default. I don't know why the game doesn't work for my PC, but I don't care enough to do anything more about it.
I love this game! The fun of trying to figure out what you're supposed to do and how to escape while avoiding guards and keeping a low profile just didn't get old to me. From the first prison to the last one, all of them were fun. It makes me sad that this franchise took the Valve way of doing games and never got a 3rd installment.
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| $1.3M | 2.3K | 96% | $19.99 | |
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| $1.3M | 2.9K | 75% | $11.99 | |
| $1.3M | 2.2K | 70% | $19.99 | |
| $1.3M | 1.5K | 88% | $39.99 |
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| $209 | 1 | 100% | $9.99 | |
| — | 123 | 68% | $3.59 |
14 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
14 on sale1 answered “not sold”0 we did not ask
The 1 “not sold” market is read from the Steam price pass of Sep 11: that day the store answered for this game elsewhere and gave no price there. The 14 priced markets are the same rows as the table above — each the latest price we hold, dated here when it is older than that pass. The 0 marked “not asked” were not put to this store at all — either it has no storefront there or we do not collect it yet, and neither is a statement about the game. A refusal is a refusal on one day; a store can list a title again tomorrow.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 24 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 9 places towards #1, and the 2,404 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Italian
| $3.59−80% |
| 123ratings |
| 68% |
| — |
| not modelled |
| $17.99 | — | — | — | not modelled |
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 844 reviews with recorded playtime.
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игра детства!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Bought this several years ago and I STILL come back to it every once in a while. A great time-killer.
it is an incredible game and i love it and all of my family loves it
This game is about escaping a prison. The means of doing so and other functions like interacting with other prisoners or the jobs make the game interesting.
good game
Исправительная колония несовершенно летних в днр
20/10 y god. Alcatraz es una decepción
Pretty cool and fun game, although can get repetitive sometimes
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