IndieSimulationStrategy
The Escapists 2
Give it 3 hours
Gets good by 3h almost every game dips in hours 2–3
Fully opens up by 10h rated like by long-time players
Reach the ending 6% of players who started
Started playing 87% of owners
Steam reviews 91% positive of 33,923
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours almost 1 in 3 reviews are negative (29%); after 10h it's 1 in 18 (6%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- 6% of players who start reach the ending.
- Most players drop off before “Holiday Blues” (Escape the Centre Perks 2.0 prison): only 61% of starters get there.
- 87% of owners got the first achievement.
When it gets good
Share of positive reviews by how many hours the reviewer had played when writing the review.
before it gets good opening up fully opened up
Based on all 34,217 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 294 reviews: 9.6h for positive, 6.8h for negative. Almost every game is rated lower in the first 2–3 hours: that window includes refunds and quick first impressions. What matters is how deep the dip is and how fast the game recovers.
Where players quit
Share of players who started the game and reached each story milestone. 100% is the most common achievement (87.1% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
- Started playing 100%
- Holiday Blues Escape the Centre Perks 2.0 prison. Most players quit here 61% −39
- Escaping Is My Forte Escape the Rattlesnake Springs prison. 30% −31
- A Camp Departure Escape the K.A.P.O.W Camp prison. 17% −13
- Drying Out Escape the H.M.P Offshore prison. 10% −7
- Chilled Out Escape the Fort Tundra prison. 7% −2
- I want to Believe Escape the Area 17 prison. 7%
- One Pixellated Step... Escape the U.S.S Anomaly prison. 6% −1
story milestone ending biggest drop-off
Story milestones were labeled by AI from achievement names and descriptions; mistakes are possible.
All achievements (58)
story milestone ending side
- Dr. Love Get whisked away by a hunky medic. 100%
- Artful Dodger Craft an item. 82%
- Man's Worst Friend Get mauled by a guard dog. 79%
- Open Prison Play a Classic Game Online. 77%
- All Mod Cons Use a customised character in-game. 69%
- Holiday Blues Escape the Centre Perks 2.0 prison. 61%
- To Me, To You Enter a multiplayer only area. 53%
- Ripped on the Inside Max out the Strength statistic. 51%
- The Olympian Max out the Fitness statistic. 50%
- Criminal Mastermind Max out the Intellect statistic. 30%
- Escaping Is My Forte Escape the Rattlesnake Springs prison. 30%
- Statistician Max out all 3 character statistics. 26%
- A Camp Departure Escape the K.A.P.O.W Camp prison. 17%
- Bad Intentions Part 2 Knock out 50 guards. 11%
- Music Maestro Play on the instruments for 1 hour of in-game time. 10%
- Riot Act Play a Versus Game Online. 10%
- Drying Out Escape the H.M.P Offshore prison. 9.5%
- The Mobile Escapist Escape from all 3 of the base game transport prisons 8.7%
- Naked Lunch Attend dinner whilst being naked. 7.6%
- Chilled Out Escape the Fort Tundra prison. 7.2%
- I want to Believe Escape the Area 17 prison. 6.8%
- One Pixellated Step... Escape the U.S.S Anomaly prison. 5.5%
- Artisan Craft 50 unique items. 4.4%
- Tell Me What's Your Favour Complete 100 favours. 3.8%
- Pour Us A Brew Will Yer, Love? Make a cup of tea and gift it to another inmate or guard. 3.1%
- I've Got A Cunning Plan Perform 7 unique escapes across the Classic prisons. 3.0%
- The Great Escape Escape all Classic prisons. 3.0%
- Are You Not Entertained?! Escape Big Top Breakout by any means. 2.9%
- Scared Stiff Escape Wicked Ward by any means. 2.8%
- Oh What A Knight! Escape Dungeons and Duct Tape by any means. 2.6%
- I ain’t afraid of no Ghost Witness the ghost perform an otherworldly feat… 2.6%
- Man's Best Friend Gain a high enough opinion from a dog. 2.6%
- Wind Up Merchant Complete the unique multiplayer escape. 2.3%
- Monster Mash Complete the unique multiplayer escape. 2.2%
- Siege The Day Complete the unique multiplayer escape. 2.1%
- Bad Intentions Knock out 100 inmates. 2.1%
- I'm The Daddy Knock out every inmate at least once in a single prison. 1.8%
- The Cake Is A Lie? Attack a guard with a cake. 1.8%
- Call Of Snooty Escape H.M.P. Offshore on Snooty the Dolphin. 1.7%
- Keep It Clean! Tag 200 places throughout any prison. 1.6%
- Are You Lonesome Tonight? Spend 3 days total time in solitary over multiple prisons/sessions. 1.5%
- It’s A Long Shot Complete the unique single player escape. 1.4%
- A Grave Affair Complete the unique single player escape. 1.3%
- ‘Tis But A Scratch Complete the unique single player escape. 1.1%
- Good Intentions Go 3 consecutive days without raising your Guard Heat above 0 in a single session. 1.1%
- It’s An Illusion, Not A Trick Complete the ‘Smoke and Mirrors’ Quest. 1.1%
- Royal Flush Use the Royal throne. 1.0%
- Almost Haunted Complete the ‘Bump in the night’ quest. 0.9%
- Clowning Around Complete the ‘No Laughing Matter’ quest. 0.9%
- Crook Of All Trades Complete the quota once for each of the jobs over multiple prisons/sessions. 0.9%
- I Am Your Father... Fight another player in the U.S.S Anomaly, when you are both armed with energy swords. 0.9%
- Soap On A Rope Spend 3 days total time in the showers over multiple prisons/sessions. 0.9%
- Stage Fright Avoid going to the Show Time routine for 3 days in a row. 0.9%
- The Naked Chef Complete a quota of the Kitchen job whilst being naked. 0.9%
- To Antiquity And Beyond Complete the ‘Eternally Grateful’ Quest. 0.8%
- Yo Dawg, I heard you like Exhibits Complete the ‘It Belongs In A Museum’ quest. 0.8%
- Online Enforcer Win 10 Online Versus Games. 0.8%
- Coffin Dodger Complete the ‘What it does in the shadows…’ quest. 0.8%
Steam page Updated: 2026-10-18.