
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
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
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.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 25 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 10 places towards #1, and the 2,413 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.
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 |
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SteamYou are here | $17.99 | 16.2Kreviews | 90% | — | $10.4M |
| $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 841 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
The Escapists - czyli klasyk z mojego dzieciństwa. Gra, którą uwielbiałam godzinami oglądać na youtubie, a z czasem i sama w nią grać. Choć przyznam, że kiedyś miałam wiele trudności i stresu z przechodzeniem do kolejnych więzień (doszłam chyba do 3.). A co po latach? Zupełnie co innego. Przestałam się stresować wszystkim nielegalnym, co robię. A co to oznacza? Więcej zabawy z gry! Dzięki temu mogłam jeszcze lepiej poznać grę i poszukiwać rozwiązań (tzn. rzeczy do ucieczki). A co w sobie gra zawiera, co mi się podoba? Spróbuję opisać. -Grafika - To chyba najbardziej widoczny element gry. Osobiście bardzo lubię pikselową grafikę. A ta tutaj jest bardzo dobrze zrobiona. -Humor - Nie uwydatnia się on w każdym detalu gry, ale nie można go pominąć. Jest obecny w rozmowach, które potrafią wywołać uśmiech na twarzy. Najlepsze pamiętam głównie ze stołówki. -Poziom trudności - Czasem łatwiejszy, a czasem trudniejszy. Myślę, że dla każdego jest on inny. Jak mówiłam, kiedyś miałam wiele problemów z ucieczką (jeśli do niej doszło, to potrafiło to być po nawet 20-30 dni), a teraz z tego samego więzienia potrafię uciec w 3-5 dni. Głównie więc to kwestia podejścia i umiejętności, choć i szczęścia. -Relacje z więżniami - Miło mieć przyjaciół, którzy na twoje zawołanie będą stali obok Ciebie w trakcie godzin swojej pracy i jak ją już utracą, to i tak będą czule o Tobie myśleć. Iść pobić strażnika i dostać od niego? Żaden problem, już lecą! Oczywiście, najpierw muszą Cię lubić, a to nie jest takie łatwe. Reputacja potrafi szybko spadać i po dniu możecie się już prawie nie znać. No nic, zakładam, że o przyjaciół trzeba dbać, co nie? -Poszukiwanie przedmiotów - Zajęcie miłe, choć czasem dość kłopotliwe, gdy np. znajdziesz super nielegalny przedmiot, ale po drodze jest bramka na kontrabandę. Oczywiście, najpierw musisz znaleźć przedmioty, których będziesz potrzebować przy ucieczce. Jest ich sporo, a w biurkach więźniów prędzej znajdziesz wszystko inne niż to, co poszukujesz. Opóźni to Twoją ucieczkę, ale to po prostu mechanika tej gry. -Muzyka - Ach, cudowna muzyka do ćwiczeń! A czas wolny? Muzyka w tle jest sympatyczna. Ogólnie dźwięki w grze są fajne! Coś dodawać? Chyba nie muszę. W każdym razie, gra jest super i do niej szczerze zachęcam!
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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.
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Stats
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% |
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| 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 843 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Is it really so damn hard to NOT spread your game files everywhere and just stay in your folder? And even if you don't stay in your steam folder, would it kill you to at least make your savegame subfolder in the "my games" folder that has been around since Windows Vista (so well before this game was even conceived) instead of the trucking documents folder? This is an automatic thumbsdown from me and putting the dev on my ignore list, regardless of gameplay. Although this would've been a thumbsdown for gameplay as well. No clue what to do, how to do it, and the controls don't work.
А старший брат держится вполне неплохо😏. Ну а если серьёзно, играется бодро, и во многих аспектах намного сложнее второй части. Спавны предметов меньше, охрана закалённей, контрабанду труднее спрятать (Сан-Пачино мне вообще в кошмарах будет снится). Рекомендую.
Niezła próba, tato gimpera.
I've tried to play this game a few times over the years, but I've never been able to get into it. While the idea of a figuring out creative ways to escape from a prison sounds neat, I just found the game to be quite repetitive and tedious. You aren't really given much instruction other than to escape, so I found myself spending a lot of time collecting random items and trying to combine them to no avail. Other than the occasional recipe you can purchase from other inmates, there doesn't seem to be a way to learn how to craft anything other than trial and error (or looking things up online). Additionally, some recipes require certain stats to craft, requiring you to slowly level those up over time to even use those recipes. In general, there just feels like there's a lot of waiting, as failing to follow the strict prison schedule usually has consequences, so if you don't stand and wait at roll call or sit and wait during lunch, you get punished. And the punishment can be fairly severe. If you have illegal items in your cell and you get unlucky and get searched, you lose all those items, and getting knocked out or sent to solitary confinement reduces your stats as well, so you can lose a lot of progress very quickly. The slow grind of levelling up your character and slowly trying to figure out what to even do, combined with the fairly punishing consequences of getting caught just made the game feel too slow for me. It seems like a lot of people enjoy it though, so you might still want to give it a try, but I can't recommend it.
This is a game I could see becoming more enjoyable with many hours and a few guides open. The main problem for me is that the game feels extremely difficult to learn. To craft anything, you would need to play hours to get crafting notes and/or have a crafting guide open. Even with a guide open, every mistake is painfully punishing. Even in the "very easy" prison, if you are found doing anything suspicious, you lose a significant part of your progress and are sent to solitary. If you start trying to escape using a specific method and learn you need something new but are already outside at night, you are almost certainly getting caught. There are some easier methods, but the thought of starting one after being caught feels like a chore. This is a game I truly wish I could love but could not get into. I also have The Escapists 2, and hopefully that provides me more enjoyment.
One of the most overlooked indie games and that is so unfortunate. It's impressive how much of this game can be described as a "stress simulator" yet it still manages to be loads of fun.
Un excelente juego, faltaria agregar una funcion para trabajar en estafas telefonicas a Ancianos, como la realidad misma
Gameplay [] Tu é doido jogaço 10/10 [] fenomenal [] fluída, bem feita [x] legalzinho [] dá pra passar o tempo [] chega da preguiça [] "era melhor enfiar a midia física dele no rabo do que jogar" Gráficos [] tão real quanto a realidade [] extremamente lindo [] belo [] videogame bem feito [x] da pra imergir [] ta ruim isso aqui [] feio e cagado, dói de ver Áudio/Música [] O puro suco do gozofone [] altamente imersivo [] isso aqui tá muito bom [x] fizeram bem feito [] até que vai [] kkk q desgrama é isso [] "mermão joga no mudo q compensa mais" Público alvo [] masoquistas e psicopatas [] Adulto [] adolescente [x] criança [] "hmmm areia, delicia" História [] deve ter sido o Stephen King q escreveu [] perfeito [] dá like se chorou [] uma boa história [] nem tão boa mas vai [] pô ja aviso que nao tem história [x] "mente vazia oficina do diabo" Dificuldade [] Eu peço perdão por todos os meus pecados e chorarei em posição fetal [] que bagulho absurdo [x] tem que usar o cérebro [] Balanceado [] casual [] até minha vózinha jogaria sem problemas [] "uga buga mim andar e bater" Grind [x] Estou a 500 horas e o item não dropa... [] Me sinto um operário mal pago [] só se eu quiser fazer o 100% [] aquele grind pra pegar coisas boas [] com 0 de grind ainda consigo zerar [] as coisas caem do céu [] "nasci num berço de ouro e isso me basta" Tempo de jogo [] Peidei e o jogo acabou [] dá pra zerar em 1 dia sem pressa [] boa duração [] longo, ideal [x] depende do quão bom vc é [] jogo tem 1000 horas de encheção de linguiça [] "nem se eu vivesse milenios daria pra terminar..."
Active players
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Players by region
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