This strategy game looks cute, but it’s actually pretty brutal! You play an inmate of a prison who’s trying to escape.
This involves doing favours for other prisoners to earn money, buying and stealing items to aid your escape plan, crafting more items and getting into fights. While all this is going on, you have to follow the routine of the prison, from mealtimes to lights out – and when you escape they put you in a higher – security prison. After the tutorial you don’t get that much guidance, and working out what you’re supposed to be doing isn’t always easy – but it’s super satisfying when you do put the escape plan together, and the game has lots of humour.
If you’ve never played The Escapists before, start with the first game it will help you learn the gameplay. If you like it, The Escapists 2 not only offers new prisons to escape from, it also has online multiplayer local co-op, so you can escape together! Here’s a tip; Don’t dawdle when you’re called to work – if you do it too slowly, you’ll get fired and it’s hard to get a new job!
