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 14.5%, Multiplayer 9.3%, Simulation 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: The original game has the same prison routine, contraband crafting, and multi-step escape planning that define The Escapists 2.

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 31.1%, Pixel Graphics 22.5%, Strategy 18.7%, Open World 10.6%, Crafting 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It directly remixes The Escapists formula into zombie-survival scenarios while keeping the same crafting-and-escape structure.

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 22.1%, Multiplayer 15.7%, Crafting 15.5%, Co-op 13.6%, Sandbox 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Made by the same studio, it carries over the crafting, co-op, and improvisational sandbox feel into an island-survival setting.

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 27.8%, Split Screen 22% ★, Co-op 21%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Multiplayer 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It trades pixel sandbox systems for a cinematic format, but its entire co-op campaign is centered on coordinating a prison escape and life on the run.

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 22.7%, Co-op 17.9%, Online Co-Op 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, Local Co-Op 13.5%

Why You'll Like It: Like The Escapists 2, it thrives on systemic chaos, multiple solutions, co-op play, and using whatever tools you can cobble together.

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 56.2%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Indie 6.3%, Singleplayer 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This inmate RPG is one of the closest matches on Steam, built around prison schedules, social manipulation, resource gathering, and breakout planning.

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 24.5%, Multiplayer 23.8%, Strategy 20.2%, Simulation 12.4%, 2D 8%

Why You'll Like It: Although you run the prison instead of escaping it, it shares the same fascination with prison systems, routines, contraband, and inmate behavior.

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 31.1%, Stealth 15.5%, Online Co-Op 14.5%, Local Co-Op 14.1%, Multiplayer 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down co-op heists deliver the same thrill of planning routes, avoiding detection, and improvising when a stealthy plan falls apart.

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 20.8%, Co-op 19.4%, Stealth 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Sandbox 11.4%

Why You'll Like It: This bite-sized stealth game scratches a similar itch with top-down sneaking, timing, and escaping after carefully planned break-ins.

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 16.5%, Strategy 13.4%, Multiplayer 12.8%, Co-op 11.1%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another pixel-art sandbox where success comes from learning patrols, exploiting systems, and slipping away before things spiral.

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 22.4%, Local Co-Op 20.8%, Co-op 16.4%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its 2D co-op action and mission-based breaching reward planning, teamwork, and flexible execution in ways Escapists players often enjoy.

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 22.2%, Online Co-Op 18.5%, Multiplayer 17.5%, Strategy 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: The deliberate top-down pacing, tactical coordination, and room-by-room planning echo the strategic side of organizing a clean 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 26%, Multiplayer 23.6%, Local Co-Op 23.1%, Co-op 16.3%, Funny 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same frantic co-op coordination and role-splitting that make multiplayer escapes in The Escapists 2 so memorable.

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%, 2D 12.4%, Indie 9.4%, Action 7.6%, Singleplayer 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down stealth and improvised get-in-get-out gameplay feel very similar to the tense trial-and-error side of a botched prison escape.

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 23.1%, Online Co-Op 14.7%, Crafting 10.5%, Sandbox 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: While not prison-themed, its co-op crafting, routine pressure, and constant improvisation appeal to the same players who love Escapists’ survival-planning side.

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 43%, Open World 33.6%, Action 11.5%, Indie 9.3%, Singleplayer 2.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down crime sandbox captures the same law-evading, routine-breaking, escape-driven energy in a larger open world.

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 37.2%, Local Co-Op 29.5%, Online Co-Op 19.8%, Funny 8.6%, 2D 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its competitive obstacle-building is a looser match, yet it shares the same playful 2D multiplayer chaos and trap-based thinking.

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 29.5%, Co-op 20.1%, Sandbox 15.6%, Crafting 13.5%, Open World 12%

Why You'll Like It: Its top-down perspective, deep crafting, routine management, and co-op survival create the same kind of slow-burn, high-stakes planning.

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 48.2%, Strategy 24.3%, Indie 7%, Open World 6.8%, 2D 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is another systemic infiltration game where you plan entries, steal what you need, and improvise your way back out under pressure.

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 24.9%, Multiplayer 22.2%, Co-op 21.9%, Local Co-Op 21.6%, Funny 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its cooperative resource gathering and on-the-fly planning recreate the same hectic teamwork and efficient task management.

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Multiplayer 30.5%, Co-op 24.5%, Crafting 17.8%, Local Co-Op 15.6%, Open World 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op crafting survival game matches the scavenging, tool-making, and tense cooperative problem-solving of Escapists-style runs.

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 25.4%, Co-op 24.7%, Local Co-Op 20%, Strategy 16.1%, Online Co-Op 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op strategy game shares Escapists’ appeal of dividing jobs, managing chaos, and steadily turning a bad situation into a controlled plan.

How 2 Escape is an escape-simulation game where two players will need to cooperate on asymmetrical gameplay and devices. "Talk together. Help each other." will be your new motto to survive in How 2 Escape.

Why similar: Co-op 33.2%, Multiplayer 31%, Online Co-Op 28.1%, Puzzle 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This asymmetric co-op puzzle game is built entirely around communication and coordinated escape, making it a natural fit for fans of breakout scenarios.

In Mark of the Ninja, you'll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.

Why similar: Stealth 70.9%, 2D 13.2%, Indie 6%, Action 4.9%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is one of the best pure stealth games on Steam, emphasizing timing, routes, gadgets, and clean getaways.

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 25.8%, Multiplayer 23.9%, Co-op 20%, Local Co-Op 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is a lighter recommendation for players who mainly love The Escapists 2 for the goofy, communication-heavy co-op problem solving.

Take control of Invisible's agents in the field and infiltrate the world's most dangerous corporations. Stealth, precision, and teamwork are essential in high-stakes, high-profit missions, where every move may cost an agent their life.

Why similar: Stealth 40.6%, Strategy 27.7%, Difficult 22%, Simulation 7.4%, Singleplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: If you like carefully orchestrated escapes and outsmarting guards, this stealth strategy game delivers that in a more tactical format.

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 25.1%, Multiplayer 21.7%, Sandbox 13.3%, Local Co-Op 9.6%, Open World 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The focus here is less on stealth and more on physics-driven co-op problem-solving, but it scratches a similar cooperative escape-room itch.

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 42.3%, Pixel Graphics 15.6%, Strategy 11.8%, Puzzle 9.1%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D stealth-puzzle game captures the joy of manipulating systems and finding clever escape routes through secure spaces.

Mr. Prepper is about being prepared. You know something is wrong. The risk of a nuclear war is in the air and you need to get ready for what's coming.

Why similar: Crafting 59.2%, Simulation 25.1%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Action 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: Its whole loop is about secretly crafting, hoarding resources, and preparing an eventual escape from an oppressive system.

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 32.4%, Online Co-Op 31.5%, Stealth 10.4%, Co-op 8.6%, Simulation 8.3%

Lost in a frozen wasteland and split up from your partner inside an abandoned castle, the only possession you have left is a walkie-talkie with a familiar voice on the other end. Can the two of you find your way out in time?

Why similar: Co-op 36.2%, Multiplayer 29.9%, Online Co-Op 24.9%, Puzzle 7.2%, Indie 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its communication-heavy cooperative puzzles deliver the same satisfaction of working with a partner to break through locked, hostile spaces.

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 21.1%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Co-op 14.2%, Crafting 11.1%, Sandbox 11%

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 25.4%, Online Co-Op 23.2%, Co-op 22.1%, Strategy 16.9%, Simulation 8.3%

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 30.8%, Multiplayer 27%, Co-op 22.4%, Funny 8.3%, Strategy 7.5%

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 32.5%, Multiplayer 31.2%, Co-op 19.1%, Strategy 11.9%, Simulation 4%

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 33.6%, Strategy 17.5%, Sandbox 17.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Funny 6.8%

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 35.1%, Co-op 17.4%, Simulation 14.1%, Open World 12%, Sandbox 5.8%

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 57.9%, Simulation 30.2%, Action 6%, Singleplayer 5.8%

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%, Multiplayer 27.8%, Co-op 24%, Funny 5%, Simulation 3.3%

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

Why similar: Online Co-Op 21.8%, Multiplayer 16.5%, Co-op 15.3%, Sandbox 13.1%, Character Customization 10.5%

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 30.9%, Co-op 21.1%, Crafting 20.2%, Sandbox 19.5%, Local Co-Op 5.5%

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 36.3%, Difficult 26.8%, Funny 19.1%, 2D 17.8%

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 58.8%, Difficult 23.1%, 2D 13.2%, Singleplayer 4.9%

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 34.9%, Multiplayer 30%, Online Co-Op 19.6%, Puzzle 8.8%, Simulation 3.8%

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

Why similar: Split Screen 15.1% ★, Online Co-Op 14.4%, Co-op 13%, Local Co-Op 12.5%, Multiplayer 12.4%

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 42.7%, Online Co-Op 18.6%, Co-op 10.1%, Local Co-Op 9.9%, Funny 9.8%

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 24.9%, Multiplayer 20.9%, Local Co-Op 20.1%, Co-op 18.2%, Split Screen 10.2% ★

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 28.3%, Co-op 26.5%, Simulation 13.6%, Sandbox 10%, Open World 9.1%

60 Parsecs! is an Atomic Space Age adventure of scavenge and survival. Keep your crew alive and ready for action. Make difficult choices, face soup shortages and other horrors of outer space. And maybe reach your destination. Or not.

Why similar: Strategy 44.9%, Funny 35.3%, 2D 19.7%

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 37.4%, Multiplayer 33.1%, Strategy 8.8%, Difficult 6.1%, 2D 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 22.8%, Crafting 17.4%, Co-op 15%, Sandbox 14.9%, Online Co-Op 9.9%

The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.

Why similar: Multiplayer 40%, Strategy 21%, Co-op 11.8%, Local Co-Op 11.6%, Funny 7.1%

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 19.1%, Multiplayer 14%, Simulation 11%, 2D 9.2%

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 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Online Co-Op 12.2%

Wobbly Life is a vibrant open-world physics sandbox. Play with your friends online or in local co-op, with exciting jobs, mini games and wacky story missions. Earn cash to spend in the world on clothes, vehicles and houses. There is a whole Wobbly World out there to explore!

Why similar: Multiplayer 20.5%, Co-op 17.9%, Split Screen 14.5% ★, Online Co-Op 13.3%, Sandbox 12.2%

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

Why similar: Simulation 58.3%, Indie 22.5%, Action 19.2%

Pritto Prisoner is a chaotic 4v2 prison break party game where mischievous animal inmates cook up absurd escape plans while overworked robot guards scramble to stop them. Unleash wild abilities, team up for ridiculous moments, and turn every match into unpredictable, messy mayhem!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 36.8%, Multiplayer 30.9%, Character Customization 13.9%, Funny 8.6%, 2D 6.8%

The highly popular and quirky "idle game that you want to actively keep playing". Explore, craft, gather & manage resources, find secrets and build your base out of nothing! Buy land to explore and expand!

Why similar: Crafting 27.8%, Pixel Graphics 21.8%, Multiplayer 18.1%, Sandbox 14.1%, 2D 5.3%

Become the most successful youtuber on the planet! Create videos, get subscribers, attend events, interact with your fans… and grow your channel. Live a youtuber’s life!

Why similar: Character Customization 28.2%, Funny 17.6%, Simulation 17%, Strategy 15.4%, Indie 6.7%

Who's Your Daddy is a casual multiplayer game featuring a clueless father attempting to prevent his infant son from certain death. Play with up to 7 of your friends, and test your parenting skills in a competitive setup with wacky physics and over 67 potentially ominous household items.

Why similar: Multiplayer 27.5%, Online Co-Op 16.8%, Split Screen 12.1% ★, Co-op 11.8%, Funny 10.1%