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The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Release DateFeb 13, 2015
Price$ 17.99  Top 15%
Steam Rating (Steam Purchases / All)90.4% (very positive) Top 25% / 90.3%  Top 25%
Steam DB Rating (Steam Purchases / All)88.2% Top 10% / 88.1%  Top 5%
Reviews (Steam Purchases / All)14.1K  Top 2% / 15.9K  Top 2%
Curators821 reviews  Top 1%
Median Play Time17.3 hours  Top 10%
Play Time per Dollar58 minutes  Top 25%
Followers105.5K  Top 1%
Owners± 1.6M  Top 2%
Copies Sold± 1.3M  Top 2%
Gross Revenue ($)± 9.5M  Top 2%

Rating and Reviews (Monthly)
  

Chart showing the monthly evolution of The Escapists steam rating, positive and negative reviews.

This graph shows The Escapists's Steam rating and reviews between June 2014 and December 2023. Steam's rating oscillates between 96.6% (September 2014) and 89% (September 2019).

With 15.9K reviews Top 2%, The Escapists is an undeniable major AAA level success. There are peaks that suggests major updates or discounts.

Review Languages
 

Donut graph showing review languages for The Escapists and the proportion of players they represent.

This doughnut graph shows The Escapists's reviewers languages. The most popular language is English (65%), followed by Russian (10%). There is a healthy diversity in the review languages, with 28 different languages represented. The game is available in 7 languages. Unless the game has a lot of dialogues, translating is usually not a lot of work compared to completing a game, therefore adding more translations is generally recommended.

Time Played

Chart displaying The Escapists percentiles of time played for positive, negative, and early access reviews.

This chart displays the time players have spent in The Escapists, showing a comparison between positive and negative reviews. It also shows the reviews during Early Access. The time played is very good, reaching 47 hours in the 80th percentile.

The negative reviews play time is 3.7 times lower than the positive reviews median play time. The negative review time is high (median is 5 hours), it can be a sign that The Escapists crashes after a while or becomes too repetitive or difficult towards the end. The Players' feedback section might give some insight about that.

Players' Feedback

Game's StrengthsGame's Weaknesses
  • Crafting tools from everyday objects
  • Humorous events and random side quests
  • Different levels with their own difficulty
  • Ability to make friends or enemies with other inmates
  • Mini-character customization
  • Addictive gameplay
  • Option menu ingame
  • Map editor available
  • Prison Architect's escape mode exceeds its creativity, aesthetics and fun
  • Beautiful hacked leaderboards
  • Difficulty of escaping prisons
  • Keyboard and mouse controls not convenient on a Living Room PC setup
  • Condescending gameplay
  • Classic-videogame unfair gameplay
  • Locked levels due to high difficulty of the first level
  • Guards attacking you when your heat meter is too high
  • Awkward and inconsistent controls
  • Few ways to escape
  • No widescreen correction upon fullscreen
  • Lack of controller support

The intention behind these pros & cons isn't to establish a balanced evaluation of the game, but rather to assist developers in identifying enhancement opportunities. The game's score of 90.4%  Top 25% should be considered while evaluating them.

Please take this list with a grain of salt, as this is an AI generated list based on a small sample of The Escapists's review data provided by Steam. Moreover, be aware that problems aren't always meant to be solved. Communicating clearly and managing the player's expectations is important too!

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