Games Like The Escapists 2

The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!

Why similar: Crafting 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 18.5%, Strategy 14.3%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: The original delivers the same schedule-based prison routines, crafting, contraband smuggling, and inventive escape planning in a more single-player-focused package.

Merging the smash hit indie game The Escapists with the world wide phenomenon that is The Walking Dead, Team17 have taken the very best of both worlds and are now providing players with the opportunity to play Rick Grimes as he takes on hordes of zombies let loose upon the world.

Why similar: Multiplayer 31%, Pixel Graphics 22.5%, Strategy 18.4%, Open World 11%, Crafting 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It adapts The Escapists' top-down crafting and stealth-escape structure into zombie-infested locations with survivor management.

A living world full of surprises, secrets and danger awaits in The Survivalists, an adventure-filled survival sandbox set in The Escapists universe. Explore, build, craft and even train monkeys with up to three friends in a desperate bid to survive. Have you got what it takes to be a Survivalist?

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.6%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Crafting 15.6%, Co-op 13.7%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: From the Escapists developers, it combines pixel-art resource gathering, crafting, exploration, and cooperative problem-solving on a hostile island.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.6%, Multiplayer 23.9%, Strategy 20%, Simulation 12.3%, 2D 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the reverse perspective of managing a prison, but its detailed inmate routines, contraband systems, and escape prevention make it an excellent thematic companion.

Back to the Dawn is a story-rich RPG set in a high-security prison ruled by factions and buried secrets. Investigate two conspiracies from the inside, gather evidence, and outsmart a system designed to silence you. Make friends (or foes) with fellow inmates and with their help, break out of prison.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 56.3%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 10.8%, Indie 6.2%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This prison RPG centers on surviving inmate life, building relationships, gathering resources, and uncovering multiple ways to escape confinement.

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.5%, Co-op 17.9%, Local Co-Op 14%, Online Co-Op 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: This systemic pixel-art sandbox lets solo players or groups complete objectives through stealth, theft, disguises, gadgets, brawling, and emergent chaos.

First-person puzzler you can play solo or in an online co-op. Explore a set of highly interactive escape rooms. Move furniture, pick up and examine everything, smash pots and break locks! Play thousands of community-made rooms through the level editor.

Why similar: Co-op 35%, Multiplayer 29.8%, Online Co-Op 19.7%, Puzzle 9.1%, Simulation 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative escape-room game built around searching environments, manipulating objects, solving puzzles, and communicating clues under pressure.

Monaco: What's Yours Is Mine is a single player or co-op heist game. Assemble a crack team of thieves, case the joint, and pull off the perfect heist.

Why similar: Co-op 31%, Stealth 15.7%, Local Co-Op 14.5%, Online Co-Op 14.1%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down co-op heists reward scouting, role coordination, stealth, loot theft, and rapid improvisation when carefully laid plans collapse.

The door to your robber’s career is waiting! Just crowbar the lock off and force your way through the threshold. Learn skills, collect tools and become a master of the thieving trade!

Why similar: Stealth 33.8%, Co-op 19.7%, Simulation 13.6%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its open-ended robberies emphasize casing locations, acquiring tools, bypassing security, stealing valuables, and escaping undetected.

You’re out of jail, but the debt isn’t gone. Sneak, steal, and break into houses solo or in 4-player co-op. Use lockpicks, sleeping gas, and brute force to complete jobs, outsmart security, and make enough money before time runs out. Will you pay back what you owe, or lose everything?

Why similar: Multiplayer 32.3%, Online Co-Op 31.1%, Stealth 10.5%, Co-op 9.4%, Simulation 8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides cooperative criminal jobs involving infiltration, stealing, tools, loot management, and getting out before the authorities catch up.

Steal everything. Even the people. The Break-In lets you take whatever you want, from TVs to fridges to toilets. And all in 1-4 player co-op, VR and non VR. Select your getaway vehicle, anything from a bicycle to a stolen police van, and load up with gear like hammers and rocket boosters, and steal.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 26.1%, Multiplayer 23.2%, Stealth 19.2%, Co-op 16.9%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This physics-heavy co-op burglary game focuses on sneaking into buildings, stealing valuables, transporting loot, and escaping before everything goes wrong.

Become the best thief. Gather intel, steal things and sell them to buy hi-tech equipment. Do everything that a real thief does.

Why similar: Stealth 28.8%, Co-op 25.4%, Simulation 13.6%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A first-person alternative for players who enjoy The Escapists 2's careful scouting, contraband-like tool progression, and sneaky extraction loops.

Perfect Heist 2 is a round-based online game, where robbers try to hide in plain sight while robbing a bank without being noticed by the cop team!

Why similar: Multiplayer 37.1%, Stealth 30.2%, Strategy 18.9%, Funny 5.7%, Action 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetric multiplayer heist game pits coordinated robbers against police, emphasizing disguises, deception, vault-breaking, and escape routes.

Can you escape with the loot? Play as the Master Thief and steal as much as you can. Burgle houses in order to obtain some sweet, sweet loot but, be careful, do not get caught!.

Why similar: Multiplayer 20.7%, Co-op 19.3%, Stealth 17.5%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This light pixel-art stealth game is about slipping through guarded spaces, collecting loot, avoiding attention, and reaching the exit.

The ultimate spy-vs-guards simulator. Carefully sneak your way to the objective as Intruders or use the wide variety of tactical gadgets to trap your opponents as Guards. Intruder allows for stealth, teamwork, and environmental interactions never before seen in a multiplayer game.

Why similar: Stealth 32.6%, Multiplayer 27.2%, Difficult 15.4%, Funny 11%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its multiplayer stealth matches revolve around infiltration, gadgets, lockpicking, communication, and defending or extracting valuable objectives.

Escape prison with your friends by equipping tools, evading guards, and executing your breakout plan. Destructible environments, proximity chat, a multitude of escape routes, 10 player lobbies, and a full custom map editor!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 30.2%, Multiplayer 27.2%, Co-op 22.6%, Funny 8.4%, Strategy 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A comedic multiplayer prison-break game focused directly on cooperating with other inmates to outsmart guards and escape.

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25.2%, Local Co-Op 23.9%, Multiplayer 23.6%, Co-op 16.3%, Funny 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It trades prison escapes for kitchens but delivers the same frantic local and online co-op coordination, task juggling, and hilarious failures.

Play as a Prisoner or a Guard with up to 12 players(or alone) in an online prison game. Loot, Craft, and make your way to the exit, or investigate and arrest wanted players as a guard!

Why similar: Multiplayer 25.6%, Online Co-Op 22.8%, Co-op 22.3%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It keeps the prison setting central while adding multiplayer social play, investigation, and role-playing around inmate life.

Too long in this prison, time to get out of here. Pull the carpet and start digging with a teaspoon. Watch out for the guard, sell him the junk you find. Trade toilet paper with the prisoners. Get better items and improve your stats. Expand the tunnel, use glow sticks and dynamite. Will you escape?

Why similar: Multiplayer 58.4%, Simulation 26.6%, Action 5.4%, Singleplayer 5.2%, Indie 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its prison setting and emphasis on secretly digging, collecting supplies, and concealing suspicious activity make it a direct thematic match.

A fresh take on top-down shooters with an emphasis on tactics that forces you to make split second decisions. Neutralize criminals, rescue civilians and defuse bombs in Single Player mode or Co-op. And remember - shooting first is not an option!

Why similar: Co-op 22.3%, Online Co-Op 18.1%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Strategy 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tense tactical co-op game about planning entries, managing threats, and coordinating movement, ideal for players who enjoy deliberate teamwork.

Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.8%, Local Co-Op 21.4%, Co-op 16.4%, Multiplayer 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its side-scrolling co-op missions reward coordinated room clearing, rescuing, breaching, and adapting to chaotic situations.

Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?

Why similar: Stealth 30.1%, Sandbox 24.2%, Open World 13.9%, Simulation 12.2%, Funny 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: This prison-life simulation offers a different role within the same setting, with daily routines, inmate interactions, and prison-management flavor.

Unrailed! is a co-op multiplayer game where you have to work together with your friends to build a train track across endless procedurally generated worlds. Master random encounters with its inhabitants, upgrade your train and keep it from derailing!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24.2%, Local Co-Op 22.5%, Multiplayer 22.1%, Co-op 21.7%, Funny 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Teams must rapidly gather resources, craft track pieces, and coordinate under escalating pressure, much like an escape plan unraveling in real time.

Human Fall Flat is a hilarious, light-hearted platformer set in floating dreamscapes that can be played solo or with up to 8 players online. Free new levels keep its vibrant community rewarded.

Why similar: Co-op 24.8%, Multiplayer 21.5%, Sandbox 13.1%, Local Co-Op 9.9%, Open World 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-based co-op puzzles encourage experimentation, improvised solutions, and plenty of amusing teamwork mishaps.

FREE UPDATE; STATE OF EMERGENCY, OUT NOW! Framed for your father’s murder, you’ll need to do whatever it takes to unveil the real culprit. Tackle thrilling missions for the criminal underworld - just don’t let the cops track you down!

Why similar: Sandbox 42.2%, Open World 34.3%, Action 11.7%, Indie 9.2%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down crime sandbox about life on the run, stealing vehicles, evading police, and pursuing freedom after a prison escape.

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Stealth 48.4%, Strategy 24%, Indie 6.9%, Open World 6.9%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It turns infiltration into a highly flexible top-down sandbox, letting you board ships, steal targets, sabotage systems, and extract by any workable method.

Explore a vast cavern of creatures, relics and resources in a mining sandbox adventure for 1-8 players. Mine, build, fight, craft and farm to unravel the mystery of the ancient Core.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 18.2%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Co-op 16.5%, Crafting 13.4%, Sandbox 10.7%

Gunpoint is a stealth puzzle game that lets you rewire its levels to trick people. You play a freelance spy who takes jobs from his clients to break into high security buildings and steal sensitive data.

Why similar: Stealth 42.5%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Strategy 11.5%, Puzzle 9.3%, 2D 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its compact stealth missions reward creative planning, hacking security systems, sneaking past guards, and escaping after a break-in.

Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Why similar: Multiplayer 29.2%, Co-op 23.2%, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative survival loop of scavenging, crafting, planning, and surviving consequences fits players who enjoy The Escapists 2's resourceful side.

Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Why similar: Multiplayer 20%, Co-op 15.2%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Crafting 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%

A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27%, Split Screen 22.5% ★, Co-op 21%, Local Co-Op 16.6%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Enter the creative paradise of Scrap Mechanic! Build fantastic machines, go on adventures with your friends and defend against waves of evil Farmbots in this imaginative multiplayer survival sandbox. With Scrap Mechanic’s powerful creation tools you can engineer your own adventures!

Why similar: Multiplayer 22.7%, Crafting 17.4%, Co-op 15%, Sandbox 14.9%, Online Co-Op 9.6%

Explore, craft, and fight your way through uncharted islands — solo or with up to 4 players in co-op! Tinkerlands is an exciting survival adventure where you will build your settlement, craft useful tools to survive, and even use magic!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 20.7%, Multiplayer 15.4%, Co-op 14.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11.1%

Slip on your flares, grab your shades and hop in your station wagon, it's time to work… as a professional mob cleaner. In this stylish award winning 2D action-stealth game you have to make sure you get in, clean up and get out without leaving a trace - Queue the funky 70s inspired soundtrack!

Why similar: Stealth 67.2%, 2D 12.2%, Indie 9.3%, Action 7.8%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Although you clean up rather than commit crimes, its top-down stealth, patrol-reading, hiding, and getaway structure scratches a similar sneaky-sandbox itch.

An online game that you'll play with 3-11 players as a Prisoner or a Guard and will try to escape or prevent escapes. Loot, Craft, and make your way to the exit, or investigate and arrest wanted players as a guard!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 32.2%, Multiplayer 31.5%, Co-op 19.2%, Strategy 11.8%, Simulation 4%

Tactical squad-based heist game set in 1970s. The 2D top-down view gives you a great overview of what's happening at any given moment, allowing you to be a real criminal mastermind. Can you pull off the greatest heist in the history of mankind?

Why similar: Stealth 37.4%, Strategy 28.7%, 2D 10.1%, Puzzle 7.5%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical top-down heist game asks you to recruit a crew, case targets, plan robberies, and adapt when guards or police disrupt the operation.

Sequel to the best-selling escape room game, brings a fresh take on first-person puzzles with a variety of new rooms to explore solo or with friends. Solve intricate puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, or craft your own escape rooms with Room Editor 2.0.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 40.3%, Co-op 33.9%, Character Customization 14.5%, Puzzle 8.4%, Singleplayer 2.9%

The post-apocalyptic dark comedy is back - remastered and even more radioactive than before! Scavenge supplies, rescue your family, and stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, hunt mutant roaches... and maybe survive. Or not.

Why similar: Strategy 35.7%, Difficult 27.8%, Funny 19.1%, 2D 17.5%

PICO PARK is back with all new levels! Play with 2-8 players locally or online in this co-op action-puzzle game!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 25%, Multiplayer 23.9%, Co-op 20.5%, Local Co-Op 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!

Why similar: Stealth 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Strategy 13.1%, Multiplayer 13%, Co-op 11.4%

For The King is a strategic RPG that blends tabletop and roguelike elements in a challenging adventure that spans the realms. Set off on a single player experience or play cooperatively both online and locally.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 27.7%, Multiplayer 21.5%, Co-op 20.7%, Strategy 11.7%, Local Co-Op 9.3%

Grow your farm, meet the villagers, and join your friends online in building your world.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.3%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Co-op 15.4%, Sandbox 13.2%, Character Customization 10.5%

Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!

Why similar: Co-op 37.3%, Multiplayer 33.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Difficult 6.3%, 2D 5.9%

Unleash your creativity and strategic prowess in Forts, the exhilarating physics-based RTS! Design, construct, and customize imposing fortresses, bristling with devastating firepower, and blast your opponent’s buildings to rubble!

Why similar: Multiplayer 33.7%, Strategy 17.6%, Sandbox 17.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Funny 6.9%

Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 35.3%, Multiplayer 28%, Co-op 23.7%, Funny 5%, Simulation 3.2%

Biped is a coop action adventure game with a strong focus on moment-to-moment collaboration between 2 players.

Why similar: Split Screen 15.4% ★, Online Co-Op 13.9%, Co-op 12.9%, Local Co-Op 12.9%, Multiplayer 12.2%

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Multiplayer 37%, Local Co-Op 30.4%, Online Co-Op 19.2%, Funny 8.6%, 2D 3.4%

You're the world's softest criminals in an island prison with mandatory nap rooms. Your escape plan? Eat bread, poop until the gates open, and pee on the robots chasing you. Break out with three friends, or play the robots tucking them back in. A wacky 4v2 prison break in quick 10-minute matches.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 36.2%, Multiplayer 31.1%, Character Customization 14%, Funny 8.8%, 2D 6.8%

Welcome to Escape Academy. Train to become the ultimate Escapist. Solve Puzzles. Hack Servers. Meet the Faculty. Brew the perfect cup of tea. Escape Rooms in single player or co-op with a friend - local or online!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 24%, Local Co-Op 20.8%, Multiplayer 20.7%, Co-op 18.3%, Split Screen 10.4% ★

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Sandbox 30%, Strategy 25.8%, Open World 13.6%, Simulation 13.4%, 2D 8.4%

Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!

Why similar: Multiplayer 58.3%, Difficult 23.9%, 2D 12.9%, Singleplayer 4.9%

Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Why similar: Crafting 19.3%, Multiplayer 18.6%, Sandbox 17%, Co-op 13.8%, Strategy 10.6%

The world of Elysia needs YOU! Join this cooperative, 3D sandbox action RPG to level up your character, craft epic weapons, conquer enemies in real-time, and build almost anything! Craft your adventure. Forge your hero. Become the ultimate Portal Knight!

Why similar: Multiplayer 30.7%, Co-op 21.1%, Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 19.4%, Local Co-Op 5.6%

Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

Why similar: Multiplayer 21.9%, Co-op 16.2%, Crafting 13.5%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Online Co-Op 11.9%

The toughest prison sim in the yard has been locked back up to serve another sentence in 2D!

Why similar: Simulation 57.6%, Indie 22.5%, Action 19.8%

Oxygen Not Included is a space-colony simulation game. Deep inside an alien space rock your industrious crew will need to master science, overcome strange new lifeforms, and harness incredible space tech to survive, and possibly, thrive.

Why similar: Sandbox 24.1%, Strategy 18.7%, Multiplayer 14.1%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 9.1%

Strategy co-op online multiplayer game about living on a spaceship with your roommates. You'll need to generate resources, take care of a deadly alien infestation, upgrade your appliances and build your sustainable space home. Living together is never easy, especially when you are in outer space!

Why similar: Multiplayer 24%, Co-op 23.5%, Local Co-Op 20%, Strategy 15.1%, Online Co-Op 8%

Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Why similar: Co-op 26.6%, Multiplayer 20.1%, Local Co-Op 17.1%, Online Co-Op 17.1%, Funny 8%

Join the fight and command your worm warriors into battle in the iconic 2D arcade artillery shooter where serious strategy and silly weaponry decide who swims or sinks.

Why similar: Multiplayer 39.8%, Strategy 20.7%, Local Co-Op 12.1%, Co-op 11.7%, Funny 7.2%

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Multiplayer 29.2%, Co-op 20.1%, Sandbox 15.5%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12.5%