The Escapists: Complete Edition (2024)

FAQs

What happens if you miss roll call escapists? ›

Missing a routine increases your heat which can make guards suspicious of you, but in most cases that's not a big problem at all. Just don't miss roll call. Missing that will result in a prison lockdown and you in solitary confinement peeling potatoes.

Wearing a Guard Outfit allows free searching of desks. Using these methods, you must gather as much stuff as you can before you try to escape. For most escapes, you should try to gather shovels, pickaxes, cutters and Plastic Keys. These will grant you access to locked doors and allow you to tunnel, cut or chip.

When focusing on the main objectives, The Escapists is about 20 Hours in length. If you're a gamer that strives to see all aspects of the game, you are likely to spend around 44 Hours to obtain 100% completion.

Time passes at 1 in game minute per 1 second real life; so 1 real life minute is 1 hour in game. Time cannot be controlled other than it does pause when certain menus are brought up. Fortunately, there is no time limit on escaping the prison and no time limit on the side quests you do for other prisoners.

Toilets are furniture that can be located in toilet blocks or in cells. They are helpful for storing items but there is a chance of the items disappearing. Also during cell shakedowns you can leave items in the toilet - guards don't search the toilets and so you can hide contraband items easily.

A lockdown is triggered when the player misses a Roll call during the daily routine, if the player knocks out 20% of the Guards in the prison or if a Guard looks in your cell and doesn't see you in Lights Out (countered by a bed dummy).

You can also place a Desk over a hole to hide it. This is very important if you don't want the guards or snipers to find the hole and bust you. If the guards did find the hole, you will be sent to solitary and your progress on your tunnel will be reset to zero. All the items in your tunnel will also vanish.

Weapon. The Nunchucks is the strongest weapon in the game. This weapon can be crafted using wire and timber.

If you were looking forward to a sequel for The Escapists 2, then you might love to hear that The Escapists 3... is not coming out anytime soon. However, the team behind the well-received series is releasing a new title in the similar vein of the prison escapee-RPG.

Is Escapists 2 or 1 better? ›

Other than the editor, Escapists 2 is basically better in a lot of ways. More fun, better quality of life improvements, more consistently comedic, more involved combat, and character customization (always a plus in my book). Whether or not the game is harder than the first...to be honest I'm not entirely sure.

Latest Critic Reviews

The few humorous lines of dialogue spouted by the guards and fellow inmates did little to put a shine over my miserable time with The Escapists. The Complete Edition of The Escapists can be easily considered the best entry in the series, but only because of Nintendo Switch.

"Is The Franchise of The Escapists Dead?" - No. Not at all. In a blog posted half a year ago, Team17 didn't directly say that a new Escapists game is planned / in production, but they do state that the Escapists Franchise has got a future.

Mechanics. Completing the quota for the work period will result in being paid. Pay varies depending on the job and the prison. The Janitor pays the least, followed by the Laundry, Library, Kitchen, Wood Shop, and lastly the Metal Shop (TE1 only).

In The Escapists, the player, who assumes the role of a prisoner, must escape from six primary prisons ranging from very easy to very hard. Each time a prison is escaped the next prison is unlocked.

Vacating Jobs

Instead of knocking them out, get them to chase you until job time ends, as you'll need to knock them out multiple times in order to get them fired. If you do knock them out (in The Escapists), steal their shirt so they'll have to go get one from their cell.

If Guards see that the vent cover is missing, you'll be placed into solitary in The Escapists. If they see a missing cover in The Escapists 2, they will head to the Control Room and trigger an increase in Security Level. To avoid these consequences, use the Fake Vent Cover or put the Vent Cover back.

Walls can be destroyed by using chipping tools (to name a few, crowbar, Lightweight Pickaxe, flimsy shovel, sturdy shovel).