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Live by prison schedules, craft tools from scavenged goods, and plan solo or co-op escapes across distinct prisons.
Released 21 Aug 2017
Craft Escape Tools
Hide Contraband
Plan Co-op Escapes
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
Developed by Team17, Mouldy Toof Studios · Published by Team17
You play an inmate trying to escape a series of prisons, each with its own layout, security, and routines. Multi-storey facilities include areas such as roofs, vents, and underground passages to explore.
Attend roll call and jobs while improving your stats, earning money, and searching for useful supplies. Combine everyday objects into tools, hide evidence, sneak around guards, or fight when plans go wrong.
Study each prison and work out an escape route, then gather the items and make your move. Play alone or in co-op and versus multiplayer, customize your prisoner, or use the map editor to build and share custom prisons.
Players who enjoy the game often praise the planning and puzzle-like process of finding a way out, along with the variety of prison layouts and escape methods. Co-op with friends is a recurring highlight, with players describing shared planning and chaotic mishaps as fun. Some also appreciate the crafting, combat, and custom-prison editor.
Risk it all to breakout from the toughest prisons in the world. Explore the biggest prisons yet, with multiple floors, roofs, vents and underground tunnels.
You’ll have to live by the prison rules, attending roll call, doing prison jobs and following strict routines; all the while secretly engineering your bid for freedom!
Your prison escape antics will take you from the frosty Fort Tundra, a train hurtling through the desert, and even to the final frontier!
Unite with up to 3 friends to create the ultimate escape crew and engineer the wildest escapes yet! Jump online or gather round on a couch to prepare for your sneaky adventures. By working together you’ll be able to create even more elaborate and daring plans.
Feeling competitive? Dive into the versus mode and show that you’ve got the skills to break out of any prison faster than your friends can. If all else fails, settle your rivalry in the court yard with a prison punch up!
It’s time to make your prisoner truly yours. Choose from a massive array of customisations to make your character unique to you. It’s important to look stylish whilst you mastermind your escape.
Being in prison forces you to be creative and work with the limited tools at your disposal. You’ll have to combine everyday objects like soap and socks to craft new weapons and tools to help you achieve your goal. Steal forks from the cafeteria to chip a tunnel in your room, and craft a poster from magazines and duct tape to hide the evidence. You’ll soon learn that duct tape solves (almost) everything!
The Escapists 2 introduces a brand new combat system to make every prison brawl more exciting and interactive. You’ll have to block and tie together chains of attacks whilst strafing around your locked on targets to gain the upper hand in combat. Make sure your visit the gym first to build up those muscles!
As the prisons get tougher you’re going to have to get more creative with your escape plans. There’s a ton of options to tackle almost any prison escape.
With the Prison Map Editor, it’s your turn to construct a prison worthy of housing the toughest inmates! It includes all the rooms, fences and guard dogs you need to build a prison that’s as hard as your imagination makes it – no duct-tape required.
You can pick up those prison blueprints and start crafting your own creations through the Custom Prisons option on the main menu, and when you’re ready you can show the world by sharing them through Steam Workshop where you can download subscribe to fellow architects’ lock-ups – all custom maps can be played either solo or in both local and online multiplayer!
11 Prisons
Up to 4 player co-operative and versus multiplayer
Drop-in/ Drop-out Online/Splitscreen multiplayer
Over 300 customisations
Multi-storey Prisons
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Achievements | 58 |
| Age ratings |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | The game supports single-player and multiplayer. Multiplayer supports up to 4 players total in cooperative and versus play, available online and via shared/split screen. It includes drop-in/drop-out play. Custom prisons can be played solo or in local and online multiplayer. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The Prison Map Editor allows creation and Steam Workshop sharing of custom prisons. Custom maps can be played solo or in both local and online multiplayer. No other multiplayer-specific mod support is stated. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 5 listed on Steam |
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| Metacritic | 75/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |
