Games like The Escapists
by Mouldy Toof Studios
The Escapists provides players the opportunity of experiencing a light-hearted insight into everyday prison life with the main objective being that of escaping!
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-75%$4.99The Escapists 2
Aug 21 · Team17, Mouldy Toof Studios
Both: Pixel Graphics · Crafting
Craft, Steal, Brawl and Escape! It’s time to bust out of the toughest prisons in the world as you return to the life of an inmate in The Escapists 2, now with multiplayer! Have you got what it takes to escape?
MultiplayerStrategyPixel GraphicsOnline Co-OpCo-op2DLocal Co-OpCraftingSimulationSingleplayer👍 26,454
-50%$14.99The Survivalists
Oct 9 · Team17
Both: Crafting · Survival · Pixel Graphics
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?
CraftingSurvivalOnline Co-OpAdventureMultiplayerOpen World Survival CraftSingleplayerBase BuildingPixel GraphicsOpen World👍 8,115
$19.99Mr. Prepper
Mar 18 · Rejected Games
Both: Survival · Crafting
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.
SurvivalSimulationBase BuildingCraftingManagementAdventureResource ManagementIndieRPGUnderground👍 4,797
-90%$1.79The Escapists: The Walking Dead
Sep 30 · Team17 Digital Ltd
Both: Survival · Pixel Graphics
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.
ZombiesSurvivalPixel GraphicsIndieStrategyMultiplayerOpen WorldSingleplayer2DAction👍 741
$29.99Bellwright
Apr 23 · Donkey Crew
Both: Survival · Crafting
Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.
SurvivalOpen WorldCity BuilderMedievalCraftingOnline Co-OpMultiplayerBuildingSimulationRPG👍 20,141
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$2.99Deep Despair
Feb 17 · BekkerDev Studio
Both: Survival · Crafting · Pixel Graphics
Deep Despair is a Minecraft-style survival sandbox. Travel, collect resources, craft items, dig, build, grow crops and survive. Freedom of action is limited only by your imagination!
AdventureActionRPGIndieSurvivalCraftingSimulationOpen WorldSandboxPixel Graphics👍 234
$14.99Hold Your Own
Nov 30 · DistrictWare inc.
Both: Survival · Crafting
A single player open world sandbox, crafting and survival FPS game set in a multi-island land where you'll fight to survive. Build your base, hunt and craft to defend yourself from aggressive wildlife, enemies or friends. Do you have what it takes to Hold Your Own?
SurvivalCraftingActionEarly AccessIndieAdventureOpen WorldSingleplayerBase BuildingSandbox👍 532
$34.99Abiotic Factor
Jul 22 · Deep Field Games
Both: Survival · Crafting
Abiotic Factor is a survival crafting experience for 1-6 players set in the depths of an underground research facility. Caught between paranormal containment failure, a military crusade, and chaos from a dozen realms, the world’s greatest minds must survive against the universe’s biggest threats.
SurvivalOnline Co-OpOpen World Survival CraftCraftingBase BuildingSci-fiExplorationCo-op CampaignMultiplayerFirst-Person👍 42,120
-60%$7.99Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator
Dec 13 · niceplay games
Both: Crafting
Potion Craft is an alchemist simulator where you physically interact with your tools and ingredients to brew potions. You're in full control of the whole shop: invent new recipes, attract customers and experiment to your heart's content. Just remember: the whole town is counting on you.
CraftingSingleplayerRelaxingSimulationMedievalManagementIndie2DResource ManagementSandbox👍 37,896
$19.99Longvinter
Feb 21 · Uuvana Studios
Both: Survival · Crafting
Fish, farm, craft, gather, cook, loot or steal from other players and build a campsite or a village with your friends in an open-world multiplayer sandbox game without rules!
MultiplayerSurvivalCraftingOpen WorldOpen World Survival CraftSandboxPvPCo-opBuildingAdventure👍 6,951
$11.99ZED ZONE
Mar 29 · Leven Liu
Both: Survival · Pixel Graphics · Crafting
A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.
Early AccessSurvivalZombiesOpen WorldPost-apocalypticSandboxPixel GraphicsBuildingCraftingTop-Down👍 3,509
$9.99Reign Of Kings
Dec 15 · Code}{atch
Both: Survival · Crafting
Struggle to survive in a harsh medieval world. Hunt wildlife, mine resources, build structures, and craft weapons and armor in order to protect yourself. You may form a guild, bring war to all opposition, and try to seize the throne and become king!
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldMedievalMultiplayerCraftingBuildingPvPSandboxAdventure👍 11,836
$9.99Blockscape
Jul 3 · ioneo
Both: Survival · Crafting
The ultimate block building game. Start with nothing and build an empire. Smooth voxel worlds, settlers, crafting, vehicles, and Steam multiplayer. Survival or Just Build — every item in your inventory is also a building block.
Open World Survival CraftSandboxOpen WorldSurvivalCraftingBuildingIndieMultiplayerSimulationCasual👍 727
$18.99上帝之城 I:监狱帝国 [City of God I - Prison Empire]
Jul 9 · Pixel Gangsta Studio
Both: Pixel Graphics
Hey, boy! I am the Deputy Mayor of Crist City. My secretary has already told you the purchasing price of the wardening position of Pompeii Prison, right? Come on son, make up your mind! There are a lot of people competing for this position. I don’t have time and patience to waste on you!
SimulationIndieRPGStrategyManagementPixel Graphics2DEarly Access👍 1,544
$6.99Pixel Shopkeeper
Jul 20 · Pixel Prototype
Both: Pixel Graphics · Crafting
Be a Pixel Shopkeeper! Collect items using inventory management puzzle mechanics. Sell your wares, decorate your shop, craft new products, and expand! Train to beat tougher dungeons, unlock new classes and decor, and furnish your shop smartly to maximize profits!
ManagementSimulationPixel GraphicsResource ManagementCasualIndiePuzzleCapitalismPoint & ClickCrafting👍 147
$9.99Magicmaker
Sep 22 · Tasty Stewdios LLC
Both: Crafting
Ever wanted to shoot poisonous lightning lasers? Freezing fireballs? Turrets that fire waves of miniature suns? How about lasers that shoot exploding black holes that suck out your enemies' life force? You can do that all in Magicmaker, the spellcrafting-focused platformer dungeon-crawler!
MagicAdventureRPGIndieActionCraftingCharacter CustomizationPlatformer2DSingleplayer👍 570
$19.99Prison Simulator
Nov 4 · Baked Games
Get a taste of prison life! Become a prison guard and deal with dangerous convicts. Prison management, lots of daily activities. Will you become the best guard in history? Or maybe you'll turn into the worst scumbag this Prison has ever seen?
RPGCasualSimulationCrimeSingleplayerActionFirst-PersonFPSRealisticSandbox👍 2,329
$14.99Tile Miner
Nov 10 · nalothchris, swanee734
Both: Pixel Graphics · Survival · Crafting
Explore a vast world. Manipulate every tile. Build your kingdom. Conquer the elemental dungeons. The moldable world of Tile Miner is at your fingertips!
AdventureSandboxAction2DOpen WorldBuildingPixel GraphicsSurvivalMiningCrafting
FreeAdventure Craft
Jul 5 · Edible Entertainment
Both: Survival · Crafting · Pixel Graphics
Adventure Craft is a procedurally generated open-world PvE survival crafting action RPG. Explore, gather resources, hunt monsters, craft weapons and armour, build a home, train companions, and survive a dangerous world that changes from day to night.
Early AccessPvESurvivalCraftingSandboxProcedural GenerationOpen WorldAction RPGPixel GraphicsBuilding
-80%$3.99UnMetal
Sep 28 · @unepic_fran
Both: Pixel Graphics
UnMetal is a 2D stealth action-adventure that pays homage to the classics with a healthy dose of humor and satire. You play as Jesse Fox, who is definitely NOT an elite commando, under arrest for a crime he didn't commit, and must escape a covert military base using his wits and fists.
2DPixel GraphicsOld SchoolActionComedyIndieAdventureRetroFunny1980s👍 2,409
$9.99Master Spy
Sep 8 · TURBOGUN
Both: Pixel Graphics · Difficult
Throw on your invisibility cloak and put your reflexes to the test in this brutal precision platformer brimming with espionage, intrigue, and betrayal! Featuring an Original Soundtrack by Grammy Award Winner RAC.
PlatformerIndieActionStealthPixel GraphicsDifficultRetroGreat Soundtrack2DSingleplayer👍 278
$14.99Outpath
Oct 16 · David Moralejo Sánchez
Both: Crafting
An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
AutomationBase BuildingCraftingSandboxResource ManagementIncrementalExplorationSimulationOpen WorldRelaxing👍 2,899
$19.99Starsand
Nov 17 · Tunnel Vision Studio
Both: Survival · Crafting
Starsand is a mystic survival game set among the dunes of an arcane desert. An open-world full of danger, vast environments and mysterious happenings await you! Explore, hunt, craft, build – and SURVIVE.
Open World Survival CraftSurvivalOpen WorldRealistic3DFirst-PersonExplorationCraftingBase BuildingInventory Management👍 807
$4.99Mini Thief
Oct 12 · Stranga Games, TommahGames
Both: Pixel Graphics · Difficult
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!.
IndieStealthCasualMultiplayerPixel GraphicsCrimeCo-opSandboxFunnyDifficult👍 372
$9.99Out There Somewhere
Mar 14 · MiniBoss
Both: Pixel Graphics
You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.
PlatformerPixel GraphicsIndiePuzzleAdventure2DGreat SoundtrackRetroActionSci-fi👍 6,161
$29.99Prison Architect
Oct 6 · Introversion Software, Double Eleven
Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.
SimulationBuildingSandboxBase BuildingColony SimStrategyManagementCity Builder2DTop-Down👍 60,159
Tactical Craft Online
Feb 12 · Crematorium of Time
Both: Crafting · Survival
Tactical Craft Online - MMO sandbox with tactical role-playing elements with a large open fully destructible world, with clans, trade between players, construction limited to the players imagination, various crafting, mining of multiple ores, farming, fishing, a massive tech tree etc.
Free to PlayOpen World Survival CraftCraftingOpen WorldSurvivalMassively MultiplayerMultiplayerStrategySandboxRPG
$39.99GTFO
Dec 9 · 10 Chambers
Both: Difficult
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
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-75%$2.99Dungeon of the ENDLESS™
Oct 27 · AMPLITUDE Studios
Both: Pixel Graphics
Dungeon of the ENDLESS™ is a Rogue-Like Dungeon-Defense game, in which the player and their team of heroes must protect the generator of their crashed ship while exploring an ever-expanding dungeon, all while facing waves of monsters and special events as they try to find their way out...
RoguelikeStrategyTower DefensePixel GraphicsIndieRPGSci-fiDungeon CrawlerAdventurePerma Death👍 9,418
-70%$5.99Space Prison
Jul 18 · Wooden Alien
Survive the galaxy's toughest prison and rise to the top of a space gang! Explore, fight, craft, trade and learn convicts' stories to escape the facility. Space Prison is a turn-based tactical survival game with deep strategy and social RPG elements.
Turn-Based TacticsComic BookStrategy RPGRPGSci-fiSimulationExplorationDungeon CrawlerGrid-Based MovementRoguelite👍 272
$23.99Back to the Dawn
Jul 17 · Metal Head Games
Both: Pixel Graphics
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.
RPGPixel GraphicsStory RichChoices MatterDetectiveMultiple EndingsStrategy RPGAdventureCrimeSingleplayer👍 8,557




