Players assume the role of an inmate and must escape from prisons of increasing difficulty. The game was launched on the Epic Games Store on 23 September 2021, with the weekly free game campaign of Epic Games. A Nintendo Switch version of the game containing all downloadable content was released in 2018. It was released on iOS and Android in 2017. The game was developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and following a Steam Early Access release in 2014, was released in 2015 for Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360, Xbox One and PlayStation 4.
The Escapists is a strategy game played from a top-down perspective.
