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The Escapists 2 is a simulation and strategy game released in 2017. It has garnered 26,187 reviews on Steam.
Overview
The Escapists 2 is a 2017 Indie game developed by Team17 and published by Team17. On Steam it has gathered 26,199 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 model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 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
26,199
Positive
91%
Steam appid
641990
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.01.4M to 3.3M
units (median: 2.4M)
≈ $16.2M to $37.7M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Escapists 2 at roughly 1.4 million to 3.3 million copies, with a median around 2.4 million, derived from its 26,199 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $26.9M 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 $11.54Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $11.54 to $19.99, averaging $18.93 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $11.54 on 2026-03-20.
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Where to buy
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- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Humble Store$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical -10%$20.90 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
linuxmacwindows
Tags
MultiplayerStrategyPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpCo-op2DCraftingLocal Co-OpSimulationSingleplayerIndieSandboxStealthCharacter CustomizationFunnySplit ScreenPuzzleOpen WorldActionDifficult
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Escapists 2 sold?
- indielist estimates The Escapists 2 has sold between 1,414,746 and 3,301,074 units (median 2,357,910), derived from its 26,199 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 26,199 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Escapists 2 sold?
- indielist estimates The Escapists 2 has sold between 1,414,746 and 3,301,074 units (median 2,357,910), derived from its 26,199 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 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.
- 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 26,199 Steam reviews, of which 91% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Escapists 2 within the Indie segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. 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.
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