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The Escapists: Prison Escape

Team17 Digital Limited · Games
Rating
4.4 ★
3k ratings
Price
$4.99
US storefront
Size
469.0 MB
v1.12
Age Rating
9+
1 languages
Categories
Games Entertainment Strategy
Daily chart position by storefront
Tracking since 2 Jul 2026 · lower is better · hover a point for the exact date and rank
Description
The Escapists, you’ve done the crime but can you survive and do the time? The Escapists is a unique prison escape sandbox game where you get to experience a life behind bars and barbed wire fences. You’ve had a life of crime but now you’re caught. With thrilling and immersive gameplay, you need to create an escape route in a world of other prisoners and ruled by routine.

From roll call to lights out, you’re banged up. There’s no get out of jail free card in this game, you need to break out. Are you up for the challenge or are just going to sit there in your cell? You need all your wits and skill to bust out. No walls are going to hold you, you need to escape!

While under the careful watch of the guards, you’ll need to get used to prison life while you use strategy and daring to swipe useful objects from under their noses. Make innocent looking items into useful tools like shovels for cunning escape plans or handy weapons to survive in a fight.

Escaping requires cunning, strategy, the right equipment and staying at least two steps ahead of the guards. Bribe and fight your way through the prison ranks. If your fellow prisoners like you enough, recruit them and create your own gang. You might even take over a prison! The guards are out to stop any escape attempts, so you’ll have to avoid suspicious behaviour by attending roll calls, working a prison job and hiding your stolen contraband.

Features:

● Addictive prison simulator game, steal spoons and forks, use them to dig a tunnel out of your cell.
● Over 6 themed prisons, try to escape from minimum security jails or fearsome big houses like Alcatraz
● Find, steal and trade items to create dozens of crafting combinations to aid your escape
● Use the exercise yard to increase your strength, handy for scaling walls
● Find other prisoners to trade swag with, you’ll need duct tape, a screwdriver or nail files
● Dodge contraband detectors. if you pass through one with contraband in your pocket, the heat meter rises to 99 percent
● Adapt to life behind the steel doors with prison routines and jobs and master the game's six penitentiaries, there are three extra prisons waiting to be challenged.
● Push yourself to survive and increase your strength, speed, and intellect. There are multiple ways to break out and escape, you just need to find them.

The Escapists is a thrilling sandbox strategy prison simulator that challenges you to bust out in a number of different ways. You want to break free but you're banged up and you need to escape! How you survive and do that is up to you, but when you’re out of your cell, a rigid daily schedule is designed to keep you in line. You're expected to work at one of several jobs during the day, exercise and showers are mandatory.

The Escapists is tough game, just like jail.
Can you dig a tunnel right under the walls of the prison? Or even steal a guard uniform to blend in with your captors? Addictive and tense, it’s a real challenge to escape your first prison. Commit a few inside crimes, there are dozens of items to find, steal and smuggle. Some are contraband you can sell or trade for more useful gear. Create clever makeshift weapons and tools, a bar of soap in a sock is useful in a fistfight.

Materials purchased or "borrowed" from your fellow inmates are used to craft tools and other items like wires, a bottle of bleach, a piece of timber, a bar of chocolate, a plastic comb, and much more. If you’re smart enough, you’ll figure out ways to make your escape. There are dozens of items to find and use to get out of your cell, including a pickaxe, wire cutters, zip lines and more.

The Escapists is an addictive strategy prison simulator game that challenges you to break out of jail. Don’t be a prisoner, be an Escapist!

Download The Escapists today, it would be a crime not to. You can’t check out and you can never leave, unless you have an escape plan…

http://escapistgame.com/

https://www.team17.com/
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Chart presence — 45 positions tracked
StorefrontCategoryChartRank
New Zealand Games Top Paid #23
Slovakia Games Top Paid #33
Slovakia Apps Top Paid #48
New Zealand Apps Top Paid #51
Italy Games Top Paid #93
Bahrain Games Top Paid #815
Oman Games Top Paid #832
Pakistan Games Top Paid #835
Nigeria Games Top Paid #839
Qatar Games Top Paid #844
Iceland Games Top Paid #846
Estonia Games Top Paid #860
Egypt Games Top Paid #860
Kuwait Games Top Paid #865
Lithuania Games Top Paid #876
Latvia Games Top Paid #880
South Korea Games Top Paid #886
Croatia Games Top Paid #891
Hungary Games Top Paid #905
Saudi Arabia Games Top Paid #908
United Arab Emirates Games Top Paid #910
Portugal Games Top Paid #915
Kazakhstan Games Top Paid #918
Argentina Games Top Paid #921
Colombia Games Top Paid #921
Finland Games Top Paid #921
South Africa Games Top Paid #922
Chile Games Top Paid #925
Romania Games Top Paid #926
Belgium Games Top Paid #933
Denmark Games Top Paid #937
Czech Republic Games Top Paid #940
Philippines Games Top Paid #940
Ireland Games Top Paid #941
Austria Games Top Paid #944
Singapore Games Top Paid #951
Norway Games Top Paid #953
United States Games Top Paid #964
Brazil Games Top Paid #967
Ukraine Games Top Paid #968
Turkey Games Top Paid #978
Canada Games Top Paid #979
United Kingdom Games Top Paid #987
Mexico Games Top Paid #991
Poland Games Top Paid #998
Ratings by country — 43 storefronts
StorefrontRatingRating CountPrice
United States 4.4 ★ 3k Free
Canada 4.3 ★ 566 Free
United Kingdom 4.3 ★ 498 Free
Italy 3.8 ★ 106 5,99 €
Mexico 4.4 ★ 77 Free
Brazil 4.2 ★ 71 Free
New Zealand 4.4 ★ 60 Free
Poland 4.3 ★ 35 24,99 zł
South Africa 4.5 ★ 33 Free
Ireland 4.7 ★ 29 Free
United Arab Emirates 4.5 ★ 28 Free
Ukraine 4.2 ★ 26 5,99 USD
Philippines 4.2 ★ 24 Free
Turkey 4.1 ★ 23 Free
Romania 3.5 ★ 20 29,99 lei
Norway 4.9 ★ 20 59,00 kr
Belgium 4.2 ★ 19 5,99 €
Saudi Arabia 4.3 ★ 18 Free
Denmark 4.2 ★ 16 39,00 kr
Finland 4.5 ★ 15 5,99 €
Austria 4.2 ★ 15 5,99 €
Portugal 4.2 ★ 13 5,99 €
Czech Republic 4.4 ★ 13 129,00 Kč
South Korea 3.8 ★ 10 Free
Singapore 3.7 ★ 9 Free
Chile 4.5 ★ 8 Free
Hungary 4.9 ★ 7 Free
Kazakhstan 4.3 ★ 6 2,990.00₸
Slovakia 4.2 ★ 5 5,99 €
Colombia 4.2 ★ 5 Free
Lithuania 4.8 ★ 4 5,99 €
Argentina 4.8 ★ 4 Free
Estonia 4.3 ★ 3 5,99 €
Kuwait 4.0 ★ 3 Free
Latvia 5.0 ★ 3 5,99 €
Oman 5.0 ★ 2 Free
Pakistan 4.5 ★ 2 Free
Qatar 5.0 ★ 2 Free
Croatia 5.0 ★ 2 5,99 €
Iceland 5.0 ★ 1 Free
Egypt 5.0 ★ 1 Free
Bahrain 0.0 ★ 0 Free
Nigeria 0.0 ★ 0 Free
Details
Seller: Team17 Digital Limited
Requires: iOS 9.0+
Last updated: 13 Mar 2020
First released: 2 Mar 2017
Yesterday's rank (US, top position): #965
Update history: View version & listing changes →
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