The Escapists 2 - Game of the Year Edition

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About the Game The Ultimate Prison Sandbox! Risk it all to breakout from the toughest prisons in the world.

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Developer:
Mouldy Toof Studios
Publisher:
Team17
Release date:
21 August 2017
Recent Steam reviews:
Very Positive (132)
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (11251)

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About the Game

The Ultimate Prison Sandbox!

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!

Escape Team Assemble!

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!

Create YOUR Con!

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.

Craft 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!

Prepare for a fight! 

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!

New ways to escape!

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.

Construct a clink!

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!

Features

  • 11 Prisons

  • Up to 4 player co-operative and versus multiplayer

  • Drop-in/ Drop-out Online/Splitscreen multiplayer

  • Over 300 customisations

  • Multi-storey Prisons

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS *:
Windows 7/8.1/10 (32-bit versions)
Processor:
Intel Core Duo E6600 @ 2.4GHz
Memory:
2 GB RAM
Graphics:
Intel 4400, GeForce GT 8800, AMD Radeon HD 4650
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
4 GB available space
Sound Card:
Windows Compatible Sound card

recommended*

OS *:
Windows 7/8.1/10 (64-bit versions)
Processor:
i5-2500k@3.3GHz, AMD FX 6300 3.5GHz
Memory:
4 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 750, AMD R7 370
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
4 GB available space
Sound Card:
Windows Compatible Sound card

User reviews

AverageMint
Recommended | 09 Jul 2026
20.4h played

i had like thirty days on this game on xbox. i had 100%ed it twice over. i spent an entire summer playing this back in junior high. make escapists 3 please i beg you

Helpful: 0
Team Gav
Not recommended | 03 Jul 2026
24.6h played

Bought this to play coop with a friend. We worked hard on a multi-step plan over many days to acquire a key to an important door. We then discovered that the player with the key couldn't use it to let the other player

Helpful: 2
MightyWarrior
Recommended | 14 Jul 2026
2.2h played

ESCAPE! 6/10. I played this game years ago with friends who enjoyed it because of nostalgia. It's not my type of game, but it was enjoyable to play it with them. Seems like a lot of ways to escape, which I never ended

Helpful: 0
giugar_
Recommended | 07 Jul 2026
8.9h played

Peak game, also peak split-screen memories. HAD to re-buy the game on sale. There is more than one ending for each prison, which are all unique in their way, lots of item variety and very packed with content overall.

Helpful: 1
doq
Recommended | 07 Jul 2026
21.6h played

Great game to spend time with friends or alone. Controls are great, graphic design is awesome as well as the sound design / soundtrack. The game is semi-often on sale so its worth the purchase Just remember to give the

Helpful: 0
AGO
Recommended | 04 Jul 2026
19.3h played

This game is a ton of fun but it is just way too easy, you could explain someone how to escape ANY prison in 2&3 sentences MAX, most prisons don't requires Keys except for a very few that require only the red one, most

Helpful: 1