But every level you start, this becomes your first priority. This is sort of the point – it’s prison, it’s not meant to be fun. These involve different timed pressing of the triggers usually, and quickly becomes a grind. You do these by ‘working out’ in the appropriate place, literally in a gym or reading in a library. In order to do a lot of these things, you need to improve strength, fitness and intellect. The game is based on trial and error success, but the penalty is high. Alas, it was too late and it ended with me getting fully searched and everything on my person (and stored in my desk) being confiscated. What I should have done is crafted it quickly and put it back on him. I crafted a weapon, took out a guard, got his key, crafted it, and while doing so he was taken to hospital and then a full lockdown kicked in because of a missing key. Then I had to try to figure out how to make the putty, and once I finally got all the bits together, I couldn’t find a key. I thought I would craft a key, and I could see I needed something like putty, and a key. I found this quite challenging as you can see from a crafting menu which things are available to make, but it’s not always clear on how to get all of the component parts together to make them. Do some things you shouldn’t (or be somewhere you shouldn’t) and you can find yourself roughed up and in the hospital or in solitary – in both instances, losing all your things. Other than that, the prison sandbox is yours to explore as you wish. The routine of the system is clear, with a clock at the top of the screen and arrows which point where you must be when you’re not in free time. Much like the first Escapists, Escapists 2 doesn’t really give you much help. And that’s where I started to struggle, because of lack of feedback (initially) with the game system as to what I could do, and lack of my imagination on what I wanted to do.

Very quickly I figured out that just showing your face is enough to ‘tick’ the box for each session, giving you ample free time. You need to meet each session or the alarms are raised, other than that, it’s over to you. When you’re introduced to the prison you’re given a basic rundown of how it all works.

It was the same problem I had with the first game, the concept I get – but actually pulling it off is much harder.Įscapists 2 doesn’t really do very much to help you either, much like the first game. This is the biggest conundrum I had with Escapists 2. Even trying to figure out how to escape isn’t that easy, let alone doing it.

The escapist make putty