
Steam reviews
Very Positive
91% of 33,423 reviews
Critic scores
75
Metacritic
Generally favorable
Aggregated from professional reviewers. OpenCritic and others are on the roadmap.
Strategy Live▲Surging
THE ESCAPISTS 2
The Escapists 2 has 244 concurrent players on Steam right now. Its 24 hour peak is 467 and its all-time peak is 467. Data refreshes every 5 minutes from the official Steam Web API.
DEV · Team17, Mouldy Toof StudiosPUB · Team172017
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
- Up 52% in the last 24h. Something brought players back.
- Currently at 52% of the all-time peak of 467 players.
- Last updated 8 months ago: The Survivalists' Frostbite Fortress DLC is OUT NOW! 🐵❄️.
Playing now
244
24h peak
467
24h change
▲ 51.5%
Quick verdict
Is The Escapists 2 still alive in 2026?
PREVIOUS 24 HOURS
GALLERY & TRAILERS
1 / 17
ACROSS PLATFORMS
STEAMLIVE
Current
244
24h peak
467
All-time
467
TWITCHLIVE · VIEWERS
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Xbox · PlayStation · Nintendo
No public concurrent-player API exists for these platforms. Other sites guess by scraping achievement timestamps or leaderboards. We won’t make up numbers. If the platforms ever ship a real API, real numbers will show up here.
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