How many copies has The Escapists 2 sold?

indielist estimates The Escapists 2 has sold between 1,814,508 and 4,233,852 units (median 3,024,180), derived from its 33,602 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.

Who developed The Escapists 2?

The Escapists 2 was developed by Team17 and published by Team17.

Who published The Escapists 2?

The Escapists 2 was published by Team17, developed by Team17. See Team17's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

When was The Escapists 2 released?

The Escapists 2 was released in 2017.

How many reviews does The Escapists 2 have on Steam?

The Escapists 2 has 33,602 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.

Is The Escapists 2 worth playing?

Steam players rate The Escapists 2 91% positive across 33,602 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.

The Escapists 2

Aug 21, 2017 Indie $19.99

Developer Team17 Publisher Team17

Profile updated May 2026

The Escapists 2 is a simulation and strategy game released in 2017. It has garnered 26,187 reviews on Steam.

The Escapists 2 is a 2017 Indie game developed by Team17 and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 33,602 player reviews, 91% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Indie category. The game is available on linux, mac, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Team17 with publisher Team17 is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Indie projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.8 million to 4.2 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 2 can be compared against similar Indie titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.

Reviews

33,602

Positive

91%

Steam appid

641990

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

343

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 18:50 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

1.8M to 4.2M

units (median: 3.0M)

≈ $20.7M to $48.3M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

1.8M median 4.2M

+ How is this calculated?

33,602 reviews × NB(90) = 3,024,180 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2017	+30
price_$20	0
positive_91%	+10
final NB	90

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 The Escapists 2 at roughly 1.8 million to 4.2 million copies, with a median around 3.0 million, derived from its 33,602 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $34.5M 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

53 observed days · window low $4.35

Across 53 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $4.35 to $4.99. The tracked-window low was $4.35 on 2026-06-20.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

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Platforms

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Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Escapists 2 sold?: indielist estimates The Escapists 2 has sold between 1,814,508 and 4,233,852 units (median 3,024,180), derived from its 33,602 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
Who developed The Escapists 2?: The Escapists 2 was developed by Team17 and published by Team17.
Who published The Escapists 2?: The Escapists 2 was published by Team17, developed by Team17. See Team17's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
When was The Escapists 2 released?: The Escapists 2 was released in 2017.
How many reviews does The Escapists 2 have on Steam?: The Escapists 2 has 33,602 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Is The Escapists 2 worth playing?: Steam players rate The Escapists 2 91% positive across 33,602 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.

Players looking for games like The Escapists 2 can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Indie titles such as Don't Starve Together, Human Fall Flat, Who's Your Daddy?!, Terraria, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Team17's other releases and Team17's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Escapists 2 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 2 page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Indie 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.