The Escapists
Give it 5 hours
What the data shows
- In the first 2 hours 1 in 3 reviews are negative (31%); after 10h it's 1 in 20 (5%).
- Fully opens up by hour 10.
- The game has no story achievements, so drop-off points can't be measured.
- Only 23% of owners have even the first achievement — the rest barely played.
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 16,305 Steam reviews in every language. Median playtime in a sample of 297 reviews: 10.6h for positive, 6h 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 (22.8% of owners), so people who bought the game and never launched it don't count.
This game has no story achievements, so we can't tell where players quit.
All achievements (37)
story milestone ending side
- Grey Matters Reach 100 intellect 100%
- I Present To You Give away 50 items 78%
- Master Craftsman Fill 13 or more pages in your crafting journal 49%
- Punch Drunk Knocked out 50 inmates 45%
- Favour Fave Complete 100 favours 44%
- Let's Get Physical Get your Strength and Speed stat to 100 40%
- Disrespect My Authority Knocked out 50 guards 29%
- Strip Searched Strip 50 outfits from floored opponents 23%
- The Monopoly Guy Have $1000 or over on hand 22%
- Day One Escape a prison on the first day 22%
- Butter Fingers Dropped the soap in the showers 21%
- Digging It! Cleared a total of 50 tiles 19%
- Thug Life Recruit 5+ buddies 18%
- Clean Getaway Escape a prison with 0% average heat 15%
- Getting Your Hands Dirty Clean up the Reindeer's mess. 15%
- Santa's Lap Listen to a kids Christmas Wishlist. 14%
- Way of the Dragon Initiate a prison takeover using nunchuks 11%
- The Great Escapist! Successfully escaped from all six prisons 9.6%
- Tinsel Town Successfully dress the Christmas Tree with Tinsel. 7.9%
- Jobsworth Complete quota on every job 7.5%
- Getting Noticed Read the instructions to successfully activate the rocket. 7.0%
- Cage's Buddy Gift the Sovereign Ring to Cage 6.6%
- My Gifts To You Successfully place Presents under the Christmas Tree. 6.6%
- Northern Lights Successfully escape the level. 6.6%
- The Wet Bandit Flood 30 toilets 6.6%
- Wrapped Up Successfully wrap the Christmas Tree in Fairy Lights. 6.6%
- Ladies' Man Gift the Aftershave to Andy. 6.1%
- Soldiers Of Fortune The Escape Team have escaped. 6.1%
- Tanked Up Complete the construction of the Tank. 6.1%
- The Mad Man Gift the Trash Bag to Sean 6.1%
- The Key to Success Successfully activate the Keycard control Panel. 5.7%
- Never Be Alone Again Attended 50 prison visits 5.7%
- Finger of Blame Successfully activate the Finger Print control Panel. 5.3%
- Loved Up All members of the Escape Team love you upon escaping. 5.3%
- Spy Hard Successfully escape the level. 5.3%
- On Top of the World Try out the evil villain’s seat. 5.3%
- The Voice of Reason Successfully activate the Voice Analyzer control Panel. 5.3%