The Escapists 2 (NS) – a breakout hit Gaming’s best prison break simulator comes to Switch, and proves that escaping incarceration is always more fun with friends. Being stuck in jail is one of those experiences that while absolutely awful in real-life regularly ends up being used as a fun scenario in video games.

Aug 23, 2017 - The Escapists was a surprise Steam hit about breaking out of a variety of prisons, each with its own layout and routines. The Escapists 2 still has prisons, but they're joined by a series of weirder, wackier locations and situations. THE ESCAPISTS 2!!! ▻ Subscribe and join TeamTDM!:: ▻ Follow Me on Twitter:: http://www.

Whether it’s designing your own penitentiary in Prison Architect or making a daring escape at the start of Oblivion, video game jails tend to be surprisingly entertaining places (and that’s without even counting dungeons). Despite what it may look like The Escapists 2 is a more realistic depiction of doing porridge than most, but that only makes it more entertaining than usual.

The first Escapists game was released in 2015 and is one of the purest indie games we’ve ever played; in that it was made by a literal bedroom programmer, who’d been making games purely as a hobby while working a day job as a roofer. But it was also interesting because he was British, and that meant that his influences weren’t old NES games but ZX Spectrum classics like The Great Escape and Skool Daze. Sandbox style gameplay is a much older concept than many gamers realise, and The Escapists harkens back to the days of minimal hand-holding and small but highly interactive environments that allow you to manufacture solutions the original designer may never even have guessed.

In terms of modern games the mix of stealth and freeform puzzle-solving is perhaps closest in comparison to Hitman, except with less murder. The Escapists 2 has exactly the same premise as the original, and so even with the promise of 10 different prisons to escape from you might worry that the concept is being stretched too far to justify a full sequel. Autocad 2000 Full Crack Software. But right from the off it’s obvious that this is a considerably more ambitious production. The game starts off with a clever flashback, where your ex-jailbird explains how he escaped while relaxing on a tropical-looking beach. Turning his descriptions into a tutorial is a neat presentational trick, but also a great way to get across the basics of what is actually quite a complex game. Although each prison has different layouts and procedures the first thing you need to do when starting out at any of them is learn their routines. They all have regularly scheduled meal times, assemblies, and exercise periods, and if you miss any of them you’ll be noticed.