The Escapists 2
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The entire goal is to break out of prison: the player steals items, crafts contraband, damages prison property, and does illicit favours for other inmates to fund and execute escapes.
Top-down pixel-art brawling where the inmate throws punches or swings crafted weapons at other prisoners and guards; hits produce small cartoon impacts with no blood or gore.
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What it is
The Escapists 2 is a top-down, pixel-art prison-escape strategy game where you play an inmate trying to break out of a series of increasingly secure prisons. You follow a daily routine of roll calls, meals, jobs, and exercise while secretly stealing supplies, crafting tools and makeshift weapons, digging tunnels, and finding creative routes past guards, cameras, and fences. Conflict is limited to cartoonish, bloodless brawling with fists or improvised weapons against other inmates and guards. There is no sexual content, nudity, strong language, drugs, or gore. The whole game is built around committing the crime of escaping and the rule-breaking (theft, contraband, bribery) needed to pull it off, all framed in a lighthearted, comedic tone. It can be played solo or in online and local co-op with others, and includes a prison editor for making and sharing custom levels.
How it's framed
The game treats prison escape as a playful puzzle rather than a serious crime story: the art is cute and cartoonish, guards and inmates are exaggerated caricatures, and getting caught leads to comic consequences like solitary confinement rather than grim outcomes. Rule-breaking and violence are presented as tools of an absurd, humorous heist fantasy with no real-world weight or moral commentary.
Details
- Developer
- Team17
- Publisher
- Team17
- Released
- Aug 21, 2017
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