The Escapists
All that stands between you and your freedom is a perfectly executed escape plan. The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main…
The Escapists is an adventure developed by Mouldy Toof Studios, released 13 February 2015 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360 and Android. It currently starts at $3.03 at GameBillet.
What The Escapists is
The Escapists is an adventure game developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and released in 2015. It was published by Team17. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox 360, Android, iOS, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Multimedia Fusion.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Escapists is a strategy game developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and following a Steam Early Access release in 2014, was released in 2015 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It was released on iOS and Android in 2017. A Nintendo Switch version of the game containing all downloadable content was released in 2018. The game was launched on the Epic Games Store on 23 September 2021, with the weekly free game campaign of Epic Games. Players assume the role of an inmate and must escape from prisons of increasing difficulty.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action, comedy, sandbox and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 37 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Escapists holds a critic score of 69 out of 100. That places it above 32% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored about average for its year. Player ratings track closely with critics at 66, across 110 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Dual Core CPU 2.4 gHz, 2 GB RAM and Intel HD Graphics 4000, Nvidia GeForce 8000, ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $3.03 at GameBillet, 83% below its usual price.
What it launched against
The Escapists launched on 13 February 2015, within three weeks of Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light and The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Life Is Strange, Dying Light: The Following - Enhanced Edition, Dying Light, The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Escapists yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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