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As an inmate, follow prison routines, gather and craft tools, then plan a stealthy or disruptive escape from increasingly secure prisons.
Released 13 Feb 2015
Plan Daily Routines
Craft Escape Tools
Dig Hidden Tunnels
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
Developed by Mouldy Toof Studios · Published by Team17
You play as an inmate whose goal is to escape from a series of prisons. Each facility has its own layout, security and daily schedule, which you can learn and use to find opportunities.
Attend roll calls and other routines, hold a prison job, train your attributes, and interact with inmates and guards. You can take favors, trade or search desks for useful supplies, while keeping contraband and suspicious behavior out of sight.
Combine items to make tools and weapons for your escape plan. Dig tunnels, get past barriers, disguise yourself or create a disturbance; different prisons offer different challenges. A prison editor also lets you build and share custom layouts.
Players who enjoy The Escapists often praise the freedom to devise their own escape plans and the satisfaction of making a plan work after learning a prison’s routines and systems. Crafting, the distinctive pixel art and soundtrack also recur as highlights. Some players find the trial-and-error learning curve demanding, and report that repeated routines or setbacks can become frustrating.
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.
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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!
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 37 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1 |
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| Multiplayer | The provided store information identifies the game as single-player and does not list any multiplayer feature. Steam Leaderboards and Steam Workshop are present, but they do not indicate direct multiplayer play. User reviews repeatedly describe multiplayer or co-op as absent and as something they wanted added, with one review contrasting this game against The Escapists 2 as the sequel with multiplayer support. |
| Multiplayer & mods | Steam Workshop support is listed for custom prison content via the Prison Editor, but the provided information does not show any multiplayer functionality enabled by mods or workshop content. |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 5 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 71/100 View on Metacritic |
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