Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out
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Action indie game focused on prison escape and digging-out scenarios, published by PlayWay S.A. and developed by Digital Melody. It released in 2025 at a $7.99 initial price and has 3,208 Steam reviews listed as 0% positive, mixed.
Overview
Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out is a 2025 Action game developed by Digital Melody and published by PlayWay S.A.. On Steam it has gathered 3,467 player reviews, 85% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Digital Melody with publisher PlayWay S.A. is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 94,000 to 218,000 units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
3,467
Positive
85%
Steam appid
3672720
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.094K to 218K
units (median: 156K)
≈ $427K to $997K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2025 | -10 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_85% | +10 |
| final NB | 45 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out at roughly 94,000 to 218,000 copies, with a median around 156,000, derived from its 3,467 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $712K in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
15 observed days · window low $4.79Across 15 observed UTC days from 2026-07-15 to 2026-09-04, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.79 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $4.79 on 2026-08-14.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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- Green Man Gaming
- Fanatical
- Humble Store
- GOG.com
Latest tracked store observations (2026-09-04 05:59 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
macwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out sold?
- indielist estimates Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out has sold between 93,609 and 218,421 units (median 156,015), derived from its 3,467 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out?
- Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out was developed by Digital Melody and published by PlayWay S.A..
- Who published Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out?
- Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out was published by PlayWay S.A., developed by Digital Melody. See PlayWay S.A.'s full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out released?
- Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out was released in 2025.
- How many reviews does Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out have on Steam?
- Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out has 3,467 Steam reviews, of which 85% are positive.
- Is Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out worth playing?
- Steam players rate Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out 85% positive across 3,467 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Terraria, Rust, Phasmophobia, The Forest, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Digital Melody's other releases and PlayWay S.A.'s wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same Prison Escape Simulator: Dig Out page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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