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Escape Machines cover art

Escape Machines

Mint Age Studios · Back To Basics Gaming · 2015-04-14

Steam

ActionAdventureIndieRPGStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Apr 14, 2015 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Escape Machines is an addictive Science Fiction single/multi-player/co-op adventure shooter in the near future! Artificial intellect and robots fight against their creators. You must take control of the robots and save people.

Escape Machines is an Action, Adventure, Indie and RPG game released in 2015, priced at $1.99, with an estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (41% of 691 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

0
playing now
41%
positive of 691 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
500,000–1,000,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
40/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$1.99
steam price (US)

0 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 0 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 7 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 0% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 27,667 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-31

Estimated sales: 17k–41k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 691 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.13 at Steam (2015-11-12) · bundled 9×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $1.99 · on sale 8 of 15 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
7720162026Week of 2016-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-08-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2016-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

202026-09-15 13:00 — 0 players2026-09-16 21:00 — 0 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 0 players2026-09-19 12:00 — 0 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 0 players2026-09-22 03:00 — 0 players2026-09-23 11:00 — 0 players2026-09-24 18:00 — 0 players2026-09-26 02:00 — 0 players2026-09-27 09:00 — 0 players2026-09-28 17:00 — 2 players2026-09-30 00:00 — 1 players2026-10-01 08:00 — 0 players2026-10-02 15:00 — 1 players2026-10-03 23:00 — 0 players2026-10-05 07:00 — 1 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 0 players2026-10-07 22:00 — 0 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 0 players2026-10-10 13:00 — 0 players2026-10-11 21:00 — 0 players2026-10-13 04:00 — 0 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 0 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$4.99$0.132015-04-142026-07-092015-04-14 — best price $4.242015-06-22 — best price $4.992015-09-16 — best price $0.992016-01-04 — best price $0.992016-04-19 — best price $0.992016-07-29 — best price $0.492016-11-01 — best price $0.992017-01-21 — best price $0.492017-07-05 — best price $0.992017-12-21 — best price $0.492018-02-19 — best price $0.992018-08-15 — best price $0.492019-01-04 — best price $0.992019-06-26 — best price $0.492020-01-02 — best price $0.992020-06-25 — best price $0.492020-12-01 — best price $0.992021-06-24 — best price $0.742022-01-05 — best price $0.992022-05-11 — best price $1.992022-08-11 — best price $0.992022-12-13 — best price $1.992023-03-16 — best price $0.792023-07-13 — best price $1.992023-11-22 — best price $0.992024-03-04 — best price $1.992024-06-06 — best price $0.992024-08-31 — best price $1.992024-12-19 — best price $0.992025-03-20 — best price $1.992025-07-31 — best price $0.992025-11-03 — best price $1.992026-03-04 — best price $0.992026-05-11 — best price $1.992026-07-09 — best price $1.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerIncludes level editorFamily Sharing

5 supported languages: English, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian

Player tags

RPGIndieActionRobotsSci-fiStrategyAdventureEarly Access

Census log

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

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