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The Great Escape

Ocean Software · Ziggurat · 2018-04-13

Steam

ActionAdventureSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person, Side view

Releases: Apr 13, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), 1986 (ZX Spectrum), 1986 (Amstrad CPC), 1986 (Commodore C64/128/MAX), 1987 (DOS)

Captured, but not defeated, you are being held in the notorious Heldentod camp. This small, converted castle in the middle of nowhere will be your home for the rest of the war—unless you can escape to rejoin the Allied Armies.

The Great Escape is an Action, Adventure, Simulation and Strategy game released in 2018 for $0.99, with 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Mixed review sentiment (48% of 33 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-03

48%
positive of 33 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
Unsupported
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Unsupported
−75% · $0.99
was $3.99
steam price (US) · on sale
The Great Escape is an action-adventure video game which shares a title and similar plot to the film The Great Escape. It was developed by Denton Designs, which went on to produce the similarly acclaimed Where Time Stood Still. The Great Escape was published by Ocean Software in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and MS-DOS. Trevor Inns programmed the Commodore 64 version

Health check

Quiet
  • · 2 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~0/week).
  • · Review velocity down 60% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 62% of 27,682 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1120182026Week of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

Census log

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