Every The Escapists game, ranked
All 2 The Escapists games we hold, spanning 2015 to 2017: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 49,969 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: The Escapists 2 (GamingPickz Score 7.8), the highest-rated entry we can score.
- For canon order: begin with The Escapists (2015) and follow the release-order timeline below.
- For the money: The Escapists gives the most score per dollar right now.
The The Escapists games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
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Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best The Escapists games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
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The Escapists 2
Best for: Players who trust other players over critics
7.8GamingPickz Scorehigh confidenceThe Escapists 2 at a glance Released 2017 Studio Team17 Player sentiment 91% positive of 33,775 Critics 75/100 Price $19.99 Steam Deck playable Install size 4 GB Accessibility 1 declared feature Raw 91% shrinks to 90.9 on 33,775 reviews, then blends with the 75 critic aggregate, giving 7.8.
What the data supports- Small install at 4 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 91 against 75. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
The Escapists at a glance Released 2015 Studio Mouldy Toof Studios Player sentiment 90% positive of 16,194 Critics 71/100 Price $3.59 Steam Deck playable Install size 2 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 90% shrinks to 89.9 on 16,194 reviews, then blends with the 71 critic aggregate, giving 7.5.
What the data supports- Small install at 2 GB.
Worth checking first- Players rate it well above critics, 90 against 71. Usually a sign it improved after launch, or that it delivers something reviewers undervalued.
Best and worst entry
The best-received The Escapists game we can score is The Escapists 2 at 7.8. The lowest is The Escapists at 7.5, a 0.3-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: The Escapists at $3.59. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
- Best value: The Escapists, the most GamingPickz Score per dollar in the series at its current price.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the The Escapists entries on Steam:
- Playable: The Escapists, The Escapists 2
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 The Escapists games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The The Escapists series, game by game
Every The Escapists game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2015
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping! (Steam)
Reception
Reception The Escapists received generally positive reviews, with Windows and Xbox versions holding scores of 71 out of 100 and 74 out of 100 respectively on review aggregator website Metacritic . Reviews highlighted the freedom in approach that the game allowed, and reviewers told stories of their break outs. GameSpot writer Cameron Woolsey described tunnelling his way out, Official Xbox Magazine ( OXM ) writer Andy Kelly, described hiding his… (Wikipedia)
- 2017
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? (Steam)
Reception
Reception The game received generally positive reviews from critics according to review aggregator website Metacritic . The Russian magazine Igromania praised the game's humor, characters, variety of maps, and the option to play multiplayer, while somewhat criticizing the interface, specifically the dialog boxes . ^ "The Escapists 2 for PC Reviews" . (Wikipedia)
The Escapists, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
The Escapists vs other series
How The Escapists stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many The Escapists games are there?
We hold 2 The Escapists games in the catalogue, released between 2015 and 2017. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which The Escapists game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, The Escapists 2 rates highest at 7.8. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the The Escapists games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2015 to 2017. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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