
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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
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..."
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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.
Genres
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% |
| — |
| 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.
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
i named one of the old balding characters pyrocynical and i was running around beating the ♥♥♥♥ out of him and then stealing his clothes and flushing them down the toilet and it was making me laugh so hard i almost pissed myself
Un excelente juego, faltaria agregar una funcion para trabajar en estafas telefonicas a Ancianos, como la realidad misma
fun game, can piss you off sometimes with cell checks on your room every morning and night for 3 days in a row sometimes but it makes you learn to hide stuff in different places
A game built on waiting. All progress is locked behind RNG items showing up in prisoners' cells. Alternatively, the player can also depend on the RNG necessary pickups appearing in random prisoners' shops with limited, random item pools. All progress is locked behind these items as punitive screens and losses in progress are automatically inflicted on the player if they do specific things (exist for 60 seconds after skipping roll call, have a vent uncovered for longer than a few seconds, exist for a second or two after taking a key from a guard). Therefore, the player is pigeon-holed into time-consuming crafting or recruiting mechanics that are based on the RNG item pools generated every day. There are other unnecessary, unfun mechanics like constantly degrading stats, constantly degrading relationships with other prisoners, crafting locked behind repetitive clicking minigames, and a job system that only gives you enough money to buy 2-3 items per day. However, the core of the game-play is just bad. It is a slot machine. A slot machine that is only available after the player has stared at paint drying for 20 minutes and completed three terrible clicking minigames to preserve their stats.
In comparsion to mobile version this one is even worse! Terrible interface, unfinished tutorials, absolutely disgusting fullscreen mode. I regret buying this with all the DLCs.
Although I really try to love this game, I just cannot recommend this due to the gamebreaking glitches and completely unexplained mechanics.
garbage game, had everything and bugged so i couldnt get out of my bed, loaded my save and it seems all contraband is gone, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT, you hide items in toilet then sent to solitary,magically the items disappear, you reload and contrabands disappear, great job best game plan ever, if you want to play this ♥♥♥♥ be warned otherwise play escapists2 way better and not such a hassle. You spend useless money on crafting recipes, this is bs game design and its a struggle for no reason at all. You get spotted and u broke a wall, instantly to solitary, you get spotted outside a prison, instantly to solitary through remote technology, like it is just unrealistic(ironic) even tho its a videogame but why make it such a struggle,ffs, fix ur game.
this game deserves a remaster since forever, i'd recommend anyone to play console version instead, if you have a chance
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.
Active players
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Players by region
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Players also reviewed
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