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A lone prisoner on a stone ledge at the bottom of a vast prison shaft, looking up at daylight through a grate far above.

A browser platformer · In development

The Escapist

You wake in the deepest cell of a prison that goes down forever. The way out is up.

Play now See the roadmap
  • No download
  • No install
  • Plug in a controller and play

Playable today: the movement prototype. Needs a desktop browser.

Zero setup

No downloads. Just play.

The Escapist runs in your browser. There is no launcher, no installer, and no account. Open the page and you are in.

  1. Plug in a controller. USB or Bluetooth. A PS5 DualSense is the reference pad; keyboard works too.
  2. Hit Play. Chrome, Edge, or Firefox on desktop.
  3. Press any button. Browsers only reveal a controller after its first button press.
Controller check: press any button on your controller.
A game controller resting on a steel bench in a prison cell, lit by a beam of light through a barred window.

The game

Every new path is earned

An interconnected prison to explore, with movement tight enough to trust on the hardest jumps.

Precise, forgiving movement

Coyote time, jump buffering, and variable jump height. When you fall, it was your call, not the controls.

One connected prison

Cell blocks, flooded tunnels, and forgotten wings, all one map. Every destination has more than one way in.

Combat is movement

Strike down onto an enemy and bounce off it. Fights take the same timing and spacing as the platforming.

Abilities open the map

Wall jump, dash, grapple. Each one turns places you have already seen into new routes and shortcuts.

The world

Eleven wings. One way out.

The deeper and older a wing, the stranger it gets. A few of the places between you and daylight:

A cramped stone cell with an open iron door and chalk tally marks on the wall.

The Hole

Solitary confinement, the deepest cells. Where it starts.

Half-flooded brick drainage tunnels with sparking cables hanging into green water.

Flooded Tunnels

Old drainage under the prison. Mind the live wires.

Industrial laundry presses and furnaces in clouds of steam, with laundry hanging overhead.

Kitchens & Laundry

Steam, heat, and industrial presses that do not stop for you.

Crumbling gothic arches and old cell doors overgrown with roots and pale fungus under violet light.

Forgotten Wings

Decommissioned long ago. The oldest, strangest part of the prison.

Development

Roadmap

Where the escape stands. This changes as the game does.

Updates

Changelog

The cell door is open.

Grab a controller. It takes one click.

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