The Escapists does have one nice quality, and that is its charmingly retro graphics design, which seems straight out of the NES/SNES era, and this acts as a nice counter-point to how complex the stuff under the surface is. It's as if the game wanted to do everything it could to make understanding how to play it as hard as possible. Heck, even the game's text is frustratingly tiny and difficult to read. but again, the game completely drops the ball by not letting players know just what they can craft with their items, or what is needed to craft, say, a shovel. This is clearly how you get what you need to make your escape, using the game's crafting system.
More importantly, there's the tools players can gather in the prison, either from directly dealing with other inmates or stealing from them or their cells.
It's clear that this goes down over time, but just how much do players need to worry about it rising? At what point can it cause problems? What are those problems? Barring a look over on a FAQ or guide, players will likely be left stumped as to many of this game's questions like this. but again, the consequences of this aren't really spelled out. The answer to that last question generally comes in the form of "heat", which amounts to how much the prison guards distrust or outright dislike you. Do you have to just show up for meals? Do you have to be there only for the end? And what's the penalty for missing this, or any other scheduled activity? There are times when your actions and movements are relatively freer than others, but the game doesn't really let you know what times are more regimented and how that works. You quickly learn that the prison has a routine that you're expected to follow. In fact, at every opportunity to convey information to the player, this game seems to want to make this as frustrating an experience as possible. While The Escapists goes into a great amount of detail in setting this game up as a sandbox, with plentiful options for ways to go about your escape, it doesn't do very much to let players know just what those options are. This, in my opinion, is this game's biggest problem. You get just enough to know the basic controls of the game, and then left to your own devices to figure out how to escape. You're not really given any story, not given much direct instruction, and not even all that much of a tutorial.
The Escapists is a Top-Down Action-RPG that places you in the role of a prisoner looking to bust out of prison.
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