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Escape from Monkey Island™ cover art

Escape from Monkey Island™

LucasArts · Lucasfilm · 2018-11-16

SteamGOG

Adventure

Franchise: Monkey Island · Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 17, 2001 (Mac), Jun 18, 2001 (PlayStation 2), Nov 08, 2000 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Fourth in the legendary Monkey Island series of graphic adventures!

11
playing now
57%
positive of 735 reviews
Mixed
steam rating
20,000–50,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
90/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
75/100
IGDB user rating (154 ratings)
10h
to beat · completionist 18h
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$6.99
steam price (US)

11 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 11:00 UTC (census sample)

Escape from Monkey Island is a 2000 adventure game developed and published by LucasArts. It is the fourth game in the Monkey Island series, and the sequel to The Curse of Monkey Island (1997). The game was first released for Microsoft Windows in November 2000, and was ported to Mac OS and PlayStation 2 in 2001. It is the first game in the series to use 3D graphics, and the second game to use the GrimE engine, which was upgraded from its first use in Grim Fandango (1998).

Health check

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  • · Top 35% of 11,404 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 18k–44k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 735 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$6.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.19 at AllYouPlay (2020-11-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $6.99 · on sale 24 of 45 observed days · $5.80 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Players online

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Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$9.99$1.182018-06-192026-08-302018-06-19 — best price $9.992019-01-04 — best price $6.992019-11-02 — best price $6.992020-03-16 — best price $3.492020-08-25 — best price $6.992020-09-26 — best price $6.992020-10-27 — best price $6.052020-11-19 — best price $6.992020-12-15 — best price $6.992021-01-17 — best price $6.992021-04-01 — best price $1.522021-11-21 — best price $6.992022-01-27 — best price $2.442022-04-24 — best price $6.992022-07-31 — best price $6.992022-09-02 — best price $6.192022-11-29 — best price $6.992023-02-02 — best price $6.192023-05-08 — best price $1.462023-07-23 — best price $1.452023-10-26 — best price $5.412023-12-11 — best price $5.782024-02-12 — best price $4.672024-03-28 — best price $1.182024-05-03 — best price $1.412024-07-25 — best price $4.672024-09-30 — best price $4.672024-12-12 — best price $3.492025-03-13 — best price $1.192025-10-06 — best price $6.992025-11-20 — best price $6.992026-01-29 — best price $2.442026-08-30 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam CloudFamily Sharing

4 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German

Player tags

FunnyRetro1990'sComedyPuzzleClassicPiratesAdventureOld SchoolStory Rich

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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