The Escape is a third person strategy game that simulates prison escapes. The player can play multiplayer cooperation as each player assumes the role of an inmate that works together to create different escape routes out of the high security prison. The prisons are randomly generated so each escape is non-repetitive. NPCs such as prison guard respond to environments such as guard offices, cells, and loose inmates in different ways, which keeps the gameplay new and exciting. The escapes will be coming harder if the player chooses to harm guards or officials, spawning things such as helicopters and cautious snipers in the map to prevent them from escaping. If the players are more discreet and subtle about their escape, the prison guards remain non-alert and passive.
After each escape the player unlocks tool locations and keys that will assist in their next escapes, making escapes easy to master when a player is of a high level, before the maps change to higher security prison environments such as isolation chambers and asylums. This is to create newer and harder gameplay options for players of high levels so they do not end their gameplay so soon.
Items may consist of shanks, keys, paint, chisels, spades, flashlights, bandannas, all kinds of relatively basic yet useful items.
