The Escapists (Xbox One)

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that breaking out of the joint is hard. Hopefully in The Escapists it won't take you the 19 years it took Tim Robbins in The Shawshank Redemption, but it certainly won't be easy, either. So, yes, your task in The Escapists is to get out of jail. You won't be doing anything so uncivilised as fighting your way out. This is a game from Team17, the developer behind Worms, so you can expect to put a lot of strategy into play. Utilising old-school, pixellated, top-down graphics, the game thrusts you into the daily grind of life behind bars. Players will need to get to know their surroundings and look for weakspots in the prison's systems. There's no right or wrong way to do it. You might pinch a spork and see if you can dig your way to freedom, or you might try something more elabourate such as supplanting the prison tailor and using a hidden space next to his work area to store bigger tools. You'll need to