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The Escapists: Prison Escape is #77 in Games › Strategy Paid in United States and charting in 13 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
The Escapists: Prison Escape update history & changes
Last change · 32 events since 2 Mar 2017Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 31 events in the last 12 months
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · NL
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · TW
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countryTaiwan
- 🚀The Escapists: Prison Escape: now shown next to Prison Escape 3D: Jailbreak, Prison Breakout Grand Escape, Prison Break Escape Games! +2 morethe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · PH
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countryPhilippines
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape new best rank in the overall chart: #22Top Paid · All Apps · AE
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 10Top Paid · Strategy · AE
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · AE · Top Paid · Games · AE
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · ZA
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape new best rank in the overall chart: #40Top Paid · All Apps · AR
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape new best rank in the overall chart: #53Top Paid · All Apps · CA
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · CA
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · AR
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · All Apps · AR
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 10Top Paid · Strategy · IT
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape new best rank in the overall chart: #71Top Paid · All Apps · IT
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape new best rank in the overall chart: #73Top Paid · All Apps · ES
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · All Apps · ES · Top Paid · Games · ES
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countrySouth Africa
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 10 on iPad · Top Paid GamesAR
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape new best rank in the overall chart: #78Top Paid · All Apps · IT
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countryArgentina
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · PL
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countryPoland
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100Top Paid · Games · BR
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countrySpain
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape charting in a new countryMexico
- 📈The Escapists: Prison Escape entered the top 100 in 3 chartsTop Paid · Games · AU · Top Paid · All Apps · IT · Top Paid · Strategy · KR
- 🆕The Escapists: Prison Escape first spotted by AppInsider#54 in Top Paid · Strategy · United Arab Emirates
- 🆕The Escapists: Prison Escape released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
The Escapists: Prison Escape at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-07. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
A premium sandbox strategy game where players simulate prison life and execute escape plans, targeting fans of tactical puzzle-solving and management mechanics. The app maintains a strong presence in the paid strategy category across diverse markets including the UAE, Australia, and Germany, with its highest ranking at #6 in UAE Strategy Paid indicating sustained regional demand for premium mobile gaming experiences.
Similar apps: Prison Architect, The Sims Mobile, Mini Metro
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The Escapists: Prison Escape on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
The Escapists: Prison Escape’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 0 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
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The Escapists: Prison Escape downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where The Escapists: Prison Escape's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Games › StrategyPaid | #77 | |
| GamesPaid | #129 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #68 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #37 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #42 | |
| All AppsPaid | #71 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #52 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #20 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #45 | |
| GamesPaid | #88 | |
| GamesPaid | #188 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #145 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #53 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #144 | |
| Games › StrategyPaid | #125 | |
| GamesPaid | #194 |
Apps near The Escapists: Prison Escape on the chart
Games › Strategy Paid, around #77.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about The Escapists: Prison Escape
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users enjoy the core gameplay and nostalgia but are frustrated by frequent crashes, bugs, and lack of updates. Many reviews highlight technical issues like disappearing items and frame rate caps that hinder the experience.
Mixed but leaning positive (60% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for working reliably, and its features and content. The main complaints are about crashes and bugs, and price and subscriptions.
What people like
- Crashes & bugs: “Great app but crashes too much”
- Features & content: “when I was playing the escapists 2, I realized that the escapists could have a lot more variety whilst customizing your look”
- Fun: “I’ve been playing this game on my console for a while, and I enjoyed it very much”
- Updates: “If the devs can update the game and remove the frame rate cap it would be great”
Common complaints
- Crashes & bugs: “There is too much glitches”
- Price & subscription: “Ask yourself if that’s worth paying for this game”
- Speed & performance: “Can you fix the crash at the loading screen”
About The Escapists: Prison Escape
From roll call to lights out, you’re banged up. There’s no get out of jail free card in this game, you need to break out. Are you up for the challenge or are just going to sit there in your cell? You need all your wits and skill to bust out. No walls are going to hold you, you need to escape!
While under the careful watch of the guards, you’ll need to get used to prison life while you use strategy and daring to swipe useful objects from under their noses. Make innocent looking items into useful tools like shovels for cunning escape plans or handy weapons to survive in a fight.
Escaping requires cunning, strategy, the right equipment and staying at least two steps ahead of the guards. Bribe and fight your way through the prison ranks. If your fellow prisoners like you enough, recruit them and create your own gang. You might even take over a prison! The guards are out to stop any escape attempts, so you’ll have to avoid suspicious behaviour by attending roll calls, working a prison job and hiding your stolen contraband.
Features:
● Addictive prison simulator game, steal spoons and forks, use them to dig a tunnel out of your cell.
● Over 6 themed prisons, try to escape from minimum security jails or fearsome big houses like Alcatraz
● Find, steal and trade items to create dozens of crafting combinations to aid your escape
● Use the exercise yard to increase your strength, handy for scaling walls
● Find other prisoners to trade swag with, you’ll need duct tape, a screwdriver or nail files
● Dodge contraband detectors. if you pass through one with contraband in your pocket, the heat meter rises to 99 percent
● Adapt to life behind the steel doors with prison routines and jobs and master the game's six penitentiaries, there are three extra prisons waiting to be challenged.
● Push yourself to survive and increase your strength, speed, and intellect. There are multiple ways to break out and escape, you just need to find them.
The Escapists is a thrilling sandbox strategy prison simulator that challenges you to bust out in a number of different ways. You want to break free but you're banged up and you need to escape! How you survive and do that is up to you, but when you’re out of your cell, a rigid daily schedule is designed to keep you in line. You're expected to work at one of several jobs during the day, exercise and showers are mandatory.
The Escapists is tough game, just like jail.
Can you dig a tunnel right under the walls of the prison? Or even steal a guard uniform to blend in with your captors? Addictive and tense, it’s a real challenge to escape your first prison. Commit
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