Unlimited Escape 2 is a direct copy + paste of Unlimited Escape 1. It's exactly the same game, except it has "2" at the end of the title. Does that quality this as an asset flip if it's the developers own asset they flipped? I can tell you one thing for sure, if you copy + paste garbage, the result is garbage.
This (and the game it's a 1:1 copy of) is a really mediocre, badly made 3D rendered 2D top down action puzzle game... thing... it's hard to tell. There's no actual tutorial, so you're left to try guess from the badly translated "Help" page that you have to wander around and lasso prisoners to rescue them or something... look, this really is pure garbage, badly implemented, badly conceptualised, and with absolutely zero value as a real game for gamers.
From a technical perspective, the game 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.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
The game features no proper level design or game/story flow/plot, as they opted to try to use samey repetitive procgen algorithms as a substitute for adding such content to the game, to avoid doing the important job of level/map design. As a result, the game doesn't actually have any content worth mentioning, just endless, boring, repetitive, soulless algorithmically generated sameyness. Developers must learn that procedural generation is not an acceptable substitute for content.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. 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 (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
Unlimited Escape 2 has the comically over-optimistic price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
