You can craft a dizzying range of specialist items, such as pick axes and weapons and dummies to take your place in your cell at night. You can run illicit errands for your cell-mates, perhaps stealing or planting items, or working another cell mate over in the store cupboard.
You just need to show up in the appropriate room at the appropriate point n the day - the rest of your time is yours to spend as you see fit.Īnd there's an impressive range of things you can be doing to further your cause. If you take up a job (handy for funding your escape attempt), you'll need to be both punctual proficient at the mini-game-like task itself.Īll of which can make The Escapists 2 sound like so much busy work, but you'll soon figure out ways to work the system. The same applies to showering, exercising and bed time.įail to show up to any of these, and the truncheon-happy guards will be only too pleased to send you to the infirmary. When the bell goes for dinner, you'd better drop what you're doing and hot foot it to the mess hall. The life of a prisoner is built around routine. There might be no set goal, but there are certainly plenty of rules to follow and places to be. There's no goal here other than to escape, and the shape and details of that plan are entirely up to you. Pick one of five themed prisons from the roster, and you'll be placed into a completely self-contained correctional facility.Īside from a brief tutorial section and a couple of introductory missions, The Escapists 2 can feel a little strange to new players. But it did secure day release.Īs the tortured metaphor of that intro should hopefully tell you, The Escapists 2: Pocket Breakout is all about busting out of prison. Poor or ill-fitting ports feel trapped and constrained in these tiny boxes with their restrictive rules on controls and interfaces.īack in 2017, The Escapists didn't quite manage to bust out of its mobile restraints. But smartphones and tablets can feel like a prison for certain console and PC games.
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