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Action-focused prison escape gameplay anchors The Escapists, a 2015 self-published release from developer unknown. On Steam it has 16,170 reviews with a 90% positive rating, and it launched with an initial price of $17.99.
Overview
The Escapists is a 2015 Action game developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 16,171 player reviews, 90% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $18. The pairing of developer Mouldy Toof Studios with publisher Team17 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 873,000 to 2.0 million 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, The Escapists can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
16,171
Positive
90%
Steam appid
298630
Engine
Unknown
Sales estimate
vv1.0873K to 2.0M
units (median: 1.5M)
≈ $9.0M to $20.9M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2015 | +30 |
| price_$18 | 0 |
| positive_90% | +10 |
| final NB | 90 |
Confidence range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use a multi-factor Boxleiter method against public Steam review counts.
They are not authoritative sales data. Actual sales can deviate by
±50% in either direction. Free-to-play games, deeply discounted titles, and games
with heavy bundle distribution have larger error margins. Algorithm version
v1.0.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Escapists at roughly 873,000 to 2.0 million copies, with a median around 1.5 million, derived from its 16,171 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $15.0M 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
90d · low $10.56Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $10.56 to $17.99, averaging $16.97 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $10.56 on 2026-03-29.
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Where to buy
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- GOG.com -80%$3.59 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$15.61 Buy
- Humble Store$17.99 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Genres
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Escapists sold?
- indielist estimates The Escapists has sold between 873,234 and 2,037,546 units (median 1,455,390), derived from its 16,171 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Escapists?
- The Escapists was developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and published by Team17.
- When was The Escapists released?
- The Escapists was released in 2015.
- How many reviews does The Escapists have on Steam?
- The Escapists has 16,171 Steam reviews, of which 90% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Escapists within the Action segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Mouldy Toof Studios's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Escapists 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 The Escapists 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.