The Escapists 2

I recommend this game. It's more for people who want to relax and get their head off of things. The game is for everyone whether you are a kid or an adult. The game doesn't have any disturbing things or some hard violence. So if you are looking for a game where you can do basically anything you want or you want to kind of relax, this game is for you! :)

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☑ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☐ 10

The games art style is very good and its level selection allows you to come back to the game. I just wish there were more maps that weren't included in a dlc.

- Its fun to play multiplayer but its more fun and easier with friends bc a lot of the lobbies have passwords
- Very good game tho
- There is also occasional language barrier and some people don't talk but that's all multiplayer games fr

Game is great, I only have played one session as the infamous and well-known degenerate criminal... Clive. This pretentious wannabe hipster is quite the hooligan I must say. It is very safe to assume that his criminal record should not be shared or saved to anywhere else than it need be. In the 3 hours I have spent in the mind of Clive I have since came out a person with a twisted view on bananas and soap, hand cream has also got me pondering on nasty intimate subjects that I really shouldn't be thinking about and surprisingly I now have changed my perspective on brooms - they are sturdy and brown just like my timber from my job wink wink. Yeah anyway this game is not just a game as Ninja would once say.

The Escapists 2 is a solid strategy game that improves on its predecessor in many ways. It offers a variety of prisons, each with unique layouts and challenges, keeping the gameplay fresh. The multiplayer mode adds a fun cooperative element, making escapes more dynamic. The pixel art style is simple but charming, and the crafting system allows for creative problem-solving. However, the game can feel repetitive at times, and some mechanics may be frustrating for new players. Despite these flaws, it’s an enjoyable experience for those who like strategy and planning. Overall, it’s a good but not perfect game.

Absolutely love this game, it's funny, it's mechanics are cool, every prison has a few unique escapes. Really hope they make a third game.

FUN AS HELL!! I flipping love this game so much, fact the devs went out of their way to allow macOS support? INSANE as most steam games on my library require to be run via Whiskey (check it out its sick) and loading times aren't half bad!
Plus maps are rlly challenging (not the easy or medium ones) which is sometimes a great sign for a good game!

(plus i own this game on xbox, amazing to play it on my computer)

A big step up in the graphic department and a huge massive step down in the gameplay aspect. Everything feel very clunky and slow compare to the first game. Combat especially feel weak and not good at all. The introduction of dog is a pretty good one. A welcome one even ,until you realize you can't do anything toward those thing once they charged toward you, peak cringe

any combat situation in this game feels relatively unfair and the option of quick saves and reloading being gone just makes the experience unbearable sometimes

NPC Inmate runs through scanner with contraband no problem.

I run through scanner with contraband, Get jumped by all staff on duty.

While serving my time in solitare I miss roll call

**wanted again as soon as i leave solitare**

Great game!

Decided to give this game a shot again after a few years not touching it.. I played The Escapist (First one) for 33 Hours, and this as of posting the review 8.2. I don't know if its because I'm used to the other but this one is missing a lot that I remember the first one having.

For one being able to use your mouse. If my mouse is below my character that is where i would like to attack. You didn't have this problem in the old one as you selected who you wanted to attack and it automatically attacked. This one the attacking works different unless you push the MMB in which you have a similar lock on feature but worse. The main problem with this game is it is to easy. Weather its the scripted escapes, or giving you a secret stash in your desk, there is just too much help in this game vs The Escapist. More importantly, you don't need to follow the regime. Yes, if you don't show up you will get heat, but if you pop your head in for 2 seconds and leave you are free to roam the prison like your a citizen with no repercussions.

As for the multiplayer I didn't try it recently, but from the past it was fun. However was it fun because I was playing with friends or because I was playing The Escapist 2. I'm thinking the former.

In my opinion if you are wanting to play a game in "The Escapist" series, play the first one. Yes the graphics are worst if you don't like 16bit but what it lacks in graphics it gains in actual game play and proper challenge.

Maybe with friends this is fun, but for me the game never clicked.

The Escapist 2 is about breaking out of prison while following (or strategically breaking) the rules.

I think for me the game fell flat because, after I had spent forever learning a prison, honing my schedule, gathering resources, I would find a scripted escape that was easy to accomplish and it felt like all my work was wasted.

This game is very good! The graphics are very good and its a wonderful puzzle game, with many different prisons to break out of and many ways to break out of them! I would recommend this to people that like a hard puzzle game.

sooo much fun to do when trying to relax has multiplayer also

This game can be fun at times, especially with friends. However, their idea of a difficulty curve is removing more and more sandbox elements to the point where it feels like escaping is just solving a puzzle or trying to figure out what the game 'wants' you to do. To me, this is a HUGE setback for the franchise.

I would totally recommend this game if you enjoy puzzles, teamwork and some hilarious interactions.
Played it with my friends and we totally decided to skip the tutorial that provided some useful insights of how the game works.

First time playing in the medium difficulty mission following through daily routines and trying to find out what to do in game. What to craft. Decided to smack the guards and got brought to solitary confinement peeling potatoes. Tried running naked through the game. Guard thought I was crazy and he brought me to solitary confinement.

Two hours in we became a part of the prison. Following daily routines. Wake up, Role Call, Breakfast, Job, Lunch, Gym, Free time, Job, Dinner, Sleep in that order.

Played the tutorial after that suffering two hour game play. Escaped the prison in 30 minutes.

10/10 would recommend.

it is very fun and although i gave up at first, i came back and managed to escape all of them (except DLC ones) but yeah i recommend this game.

I played the previous release of this series, the Escapists, and I'd say this was an absolute upgrade to the original. With the addition of co-op features, the Escapists 2 experience is completely different and a blast to play. There's also more prisons to explore and escape from that are all more diverse with each one including unique escapes in both solo and co-op.

Hella funny game. I highly recommend with friends.
I was playing a little bit ago with 3 of my friends on a map and we couldn't get out so one of my friends decided that digging out under the electric fence was a good idea. We spent 3 hours on that map dying over and over, my friend who was digging the tunnel started to go crazy cause we weren't out yet, like when we needed just 1 more lumber than we had anticipated he started to laugh hysterically, he laughed even more hysterically when we finally escaped, it was hilarious.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☑ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☑ 6
☐ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

---{ Author }---
☑ https://vojtastruhar.github.io/steam-review-template

**A great game, both solo and co-op!**
The game boasts plenty of maps, allowing for differing strategy and gameplay, with unique environments and escapes.
The game boasts well designed maps that dont feel empty nor cramped, along with a well stocked library of craftable items, cosmetics, quests and scenery, making every session enjoyable and non-grindy.
The goal of the game is to ofcourse, escape prisons. Every map has multiple ways to get out, fitting the maps environment and setting, some with a larger touch of humor, like shooting yourself from a canon ;). You CAN search up how to escape online, but I find figuring out how to get out via the hints scatterd throughout the map, comprised of arrows, notes in tucked away rooms, dialogue, quests and the crafting menu to be much more enjoyable. Whether you simply want to beat up the entire prison, plan a methodical escape or simply bust through a wall, this game along with its low price point is a great purchase.
The art style combined with the sound design makes the game beautiful as well, while requiring a very low end PC.
If you want to get a preview of some gameplay before purchasing (which you should) you should check out Blitz and BaronVonGames Co-Op series of the game, and if you need tutorials, TheRealGuruMatt is a great channel for that!
Also, sidenote, if you find yourself enjoying the game, I heavily reccomend the DLC's, especially the Wicked Ward DLC. The map along with the escapes offer a great experience.

Game is too hard for newcomers, yes it was all my skills issues.

On top of that sometimes the game get buggy when connection is unstable there's multiple time of prison break impossible to happen because of this bug. It take us multiple games just to diagnose what was the problem.

This bug where the person that have been having connection issues in any given time on the game, will cannot be able to escape later from the prison in the end. Due to some interaction with the objects cannot be met or happens.

Overall not recommended to people who are new to the genre such as myself

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☑ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☑ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☑ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
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☑ 10

Really fun! I really liked escaping some prisons and its a major overhaul of the first escapists

Great prison breaking experience, felt like I was really escaping real prison.

Peak Game, Especially the part where you escape.
10/10!

One of the best game i've ever played. Best experience was playing it with my friend. Totally worth it to buy. Thanks Team 17

Game of my childhood. Realy recomend if you like chalenges and making strategies.

Its remarkable how a guard wont even lift a finger for doing heinous acts to your fellow prisoner. but if i put soap in my socks its a lockdown.

It's simple. It's fun. It has co-op, and local co-op. My wife and I have had fun playing around in the prison scenarios. However, the game does very little to teach you how to play it. Even the crafting menu is just icons - no names or descriptions. So if you don't know what something is or how to use it, you pretty much have to go to the internet. Having said that, we still had fun building a massive tunnel for no real reason.

The game could use a good polish, but it won't be getting that. If you can look past the rough edges and learn as you go, the game offers some good fun.

The Escapists 2 is a fun and challenging prison-break game that combines strategy, crafting, and humor. With diverse prisons, creative escape methods, and co-op multiplayer, it offers endless replayability. Perfect for puzzle and strategy fans looking for a unique twist. 🌟🌟🌟🌟

+ a fun game where you should to think or the bad cops will come and beat you into a coma. or dogs..
i played both alone and with a friend, and you know what, its much more fun with friends
- a couple of times we had a situation when the necessary item for crafting did not appear, that is, at all, and because of this we had to restart the prison

Fun game not enough actuall prison levels none of those haunted house n circus maps

“Gotta love a good escape with your buddies! You can dig your way out or find another route—who’s gonna make it out first? 😂

Have fun waiting 17 days for some item that you need to randomly spawn in a desk. Fuck this game. Fuck the people who made this game. Fuck anyone who likes this game.

The Escpaists 2 is just one of those games you could spend hours and so on solely going room by room with your friends avoiding the good guys lol, get ahold of a comfy cushion on your chair for hard mode. 10/10 would recomend.

Extremely fun adventure-strategy game. There's a LOT of ways to escape, and you'll have to be patient.

Great solo, great with a friend watching you, great with friends - it's just a good time all around.

Goes on sale a lot. BIG reccomend.

this game wasnt really allat when i first played escapists one, but ive warmed up to both over time

just get your ass beat and accept that your bad at the combat

I open up a local game and wanted to play with my controller but all the time id get splitscreen PLEASE ADD A OPTION TO TURN IT OFF, second i dont blame the devs but my solution was open a public lobby and i forgot to add a pin, some people joined and they all started to attack me outta of a sudden, i tried attacking back but they were a bit good and alot lucky and i got my ass woop all the time, play it with this on your mind.

worth it if its on sale
good and fun with friends but gets slightly repetitive later

Very brain using game only the big brains of the big brainers can beat every prison without help

played this for prob 200 hours on xbox before getting it on pc, i would highly recommend this game, my only real complaint with it is the dogs are kind of annoying, also the map editor is pretty limiting (only 2 themes, you can only use 2 floors + roof & vents), but other than that, this game is so good imo. 9.5/10.

Very fun to play both with friends and singleplayer.

This had the potential to be a very good game but there is one major problem, some escapes can only be done in singleplayer and some only in multiplayer and guess what, you dont know wich one is wich until you are at the end of a game, and thats when it tells you that you have wasted your time(wich can be a couple of hours per map).

If i buy a game that says singleplayer/co op i expect to be able to beat it using either of the methods not having a part of the game locked off if playing singleplayer or having to kick a player out so only one of you can complete the escape. Or the developers could have spent couple of minutes to write next to the escape options which ones can you complete in what mode, only because of the lazines of the developers to impliment such a simple quality of life feature am i giving it a thumbs down.

I didn't find it enjoyable, felt kinda like doing chores, just not a game for me.
The craft tree is pretty cool, but the blending in and then sneaking about to get items feels like a slog. I imagine it's much better in multiplayer because you can chat while you do the 'boring stuff'.

commit crime in jail and not get punished. very good strategic game and is very good and cheap. 10/10 would definatly recommened especialy if u have friends

Awsome game, bought ut for 6 dollers Nikos Island is a must Instal DLC It saved my life

---{Gameplay}---
🔳Try not to get addicted
☑️Very good
🔳Good
🔳Nothing special
🔳Ehh
🔳Bad
🔳Just dont

---{Graphics}---
🔳Masterpiece
🔳Beautiful
☑️Good
🔳Decent
🔳Will do
🔳Bad
🔳Awful
🔳Paint.exe

---{Audio}---
🔳Eargasm
🔳Very good
☑️Good
🔳Decent
🔳Not too bad
🔳Bad
🔳Earrape

---{Audience}---
🔳Kids
🔳Teens
🔳Adults
☑️Everyone

---{PC Requirements}---
🔳Check if you can run paint
🔳Potato
☑️Decent
🔳Fast
🔳Rich boi
🔳Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{Story}---
🔳Doesn't have
🔳Something isnt nothing I guess
🔳Not greatly told
🔳Average
☑️Good
🔳Lovely
🔳Will make you cry or smile alot

---{Playstyle}---
🔳Almost never the same in any two people
☑️varies a little bit from person to person
🔳Weapon AND character classes
🔳Weapon OR character classes
🔳Creative AND Survival
🔳Creative OR Survival
🔳Melee AND Ranged
🔳Melee OR Ranged

---{Difficulity}---
🔳Just press a bunch of buttons
🔳Easy
🔳Significant brain usage
☑️Easy to learn / Hard to master
🔳Not so easy
🔳Difficult
🔳Dark Souls

---{Grind}---
🔳Nothing
☑️Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks
🔳Isnt necessary to progress
🔳A bit grindy sometimes
🔳Average grind level
🔳A bit grindy
🔳Insanity

---{Game Time}---
🔳Long enough for a cup of tea
🔳Short
🔳Average
🔳Long
☑️Depends on you
🔳Endless

---{Price}---
☑️Just buy it
🔳Worth the price
🔳Wait for sale
🔳Maybe if you have some spare money left
🔳Not recommended
🔳Dont throw money into a rubbish bin

---{Micro-Transactions}---
🔳EA
🔳Mobile Game(Necessary if you don’t want to wait 15 weeks to construct a toaster)
🔳”Premium” Currency AND Normal Currency
🔳”Premium” Currency OR Normal Currency
🔳Quick way to advance
🔳Fortnite(Skins/Emotes/Etc)
🔳Only to show off big time
☑️Level DLC
🔳None

---{Bugs/Glitches}---
🔳Never had any
☑️Minor bugs/glitches
🔳Few bugs/glitches
🔳Can get annoying
🔳Ruining the game
🔳The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs/glitches