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Escape from GULAG

Rabotiagi games · 2020-07-21

Steam

ActionCasualIndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Jul 21, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

"Escape from GULAG" is the maze game that increases difficulty as you progress through the levels.

85%
positive of 73 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
Unknown
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: 0
$0.79
steam price (US)

You play as a character who got into the Gulag. The Gulag was a place of detention in the years 1930-1960. The purpose of the camps was to use the labor force of persons serving sentences to colonize remote and unfavorable lands throughout the Soviet Union.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 8 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 49% of 22,415 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 1.5k–3.3k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 73 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.59 at Steam (2020-06-25)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
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Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

WarIndieActionCasualViolentMilitaryStrategyFast-PacedSimulationTime Travel

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.