[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asset_flip]Warning: Asset Flip![/url][/quote]
Escape Prison is a Digital Homicide style asset flip, or what Valve calls a "Fake Game". The "developer" paid for/pirated a few Unity asset store packs, dumped them all in a blender, and submitted it to Valve as if they're real game developers. It's important to also note the "developers" here didn't credit any of the artists and real, actual game developers who created the assets here, so this is plagiarism, as well as cash grab shovelware.
indiegames3000 has shown a repeat pattern of unethically dumping other people's work onto Steam as a cheap, nasty cash grab. Here's some examples so you can see for yourself:
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[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1439170]Smart Thief[/url]" = [url=https://assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/props/interior/simple-house-interiors-cartoon-assets-38027]Simple House Interiors[/url] developed by Synty Studios
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433970]Cake Shop Simulator[/url]" = [url=https://unityassets4free.com/cake-shop-bakery-chef-story-game/]Cake Shop Bakery Chef Story Game[/url] developed by KetchAp
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433960]Fast Food Simulator[/url]" = [url=https://unityfreaks.com/asset/4815]Top Burger Chef[/url] developed by KetchAp
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1524580]Dual Cars[/url]" = [url=https://www.sellmyapp.com/downloads/dual-control-hypercasual-game/]Dual Control[/url] developed by Game Polygon
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1526020]Bullet Time[/url]" = [url=https://forum.unity.com/threads/released-full-game-kit-hammer-2.353481/]Full Game Kit - Hammer 2[/url] developed by XForm Games
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433940]Adventure of Bears[/url]" = [url=https://appadvice.com/app/super-bear-adventure/1468895536]Super Bear Adventure[/url] developed by Mario BLAZE
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1434490]Farm Day 2021[/url]" = [url=https://forum.unity.com/threads/farm-business-engine-create-your-own-business-game.471279/]Farm Business Engine[/url] developed by Philip Rit
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1464730]Metal Commando[/url]" = [url=https://www.sellmyapp.com/downloads/metal-black-ops/]Metal Black Ops[/url] developed by 7ven App
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1433980]Farm & Puzzle[/url]" = [url=https://www.sellmyapp.com/downloads/farming-puzzle-original-game/]Farming Puzzle Original Game[/url] developed by Game Polygon
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1434510]Park The Car[/url]" = [url=https://www.codester.com/items/35505/park-the-car-unity-game]Park the car - Unity game[/url] developed by Pixel games
[*] "[url=https://store.steampowered.com/app/1542460]ZenFarm[/url]" = [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bab1U7VW-0]Happy Farm[/url] developed by Scene 4T
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The developers just took a few asset packs from Unity (Simple Racer, Simple Waypoint System etc) and slapped them together to make a simple mobile app action "stealth" game where you lay out a route by dragging your finger on your iPhone screen, then tap your screen to make a "prisoner" asset run up to the exit along your route. You have to time it carefully to avoid search cones. This is incredibly shallow shovelware.
Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
This looks and feels like a mobile app, but I wasn't able to find it on the app stores. Maybe it was removed, maybe it was rejected by Apple and Google (they do have more rigorous quality standards than Valve does for Steam, after all).
Regardless, for all intents and purposes "Escape Prison" might as well be a mobile app, it has the same limitations and dumbed down qualities. It's impossible to recommend such a game to PC gamers. We don't spend all this money building gaming rigs so we can pretend they're iPhones and play games that might as well be mobile apps.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected in the general public reception. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. That's right, only 2. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 50,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in the game is to be expected. Gamers just didn't take this low quality game seriously, and for good reason.
Escape Prison is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. Because this is the kind of game you can just play for free on mobile phones, it's impossible to recommend anyone should pay money for the same experience on Steam.
