The Escapists 2: Game of the Year Edition
The Escapists 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the sandbox prison-escape game which will include, in a first for the series, drop in/drop out play for up to four players in both local and online play. The Game…
The Escapists 2: Game of the Year Edition is an indie developed by Mouldy Toof Studios, released 8 August 2019 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.
What The Escapists 2: Game of the Year Edition is
The Escapists 2: Game of the Year Edition is an indie game developed by Mouldy Toof Studios and released in 2019. It was published by Team17. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Escapists 2 is the forthcoming sequel to the sandbox prison-escape game which will include, in a first for the series, drop in/drop out play for up to four players in both local and online play. The Game of the Year Edition will include all 11 prisons from the base game and all Escapists 2 DLC and impenetrable penitentiaries such as Wicked Ward and the Glorious Regime!
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are sandbox and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
What it launched against
The Escapists 2: Game of the Year Edition launched on 8 August 2019, within three weeks of Control, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Remnant: From the Ashes and Wolfenstein: Youngblood. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Control, Fire Emblem: Three Houses, Remnant: From the Ashes, Wolfenstein: Youngblood.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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