The Yard: Escape from Prison

The Yard: Escape from Prison is a prison escape game for up to six players online. You follow the prison routine, gather and craft tools, investigate the facility and plan a breakout while avoiding the guards. You can cooperate on a group escape or compete with other inmates to be the first to get out.

Life inside

To avoid suspicion, attend roll calls, complete chores and work assigned shifts. Jobs include license plate pressing, dishwashing and laundry, and tailoring. Workplaces can provide opportunities to scavenge and smuggle restricted items, while wages can be spent on insider information from shady sources or on customizing your character in the cafeteria.

Explore the facility for materials and possible escape routes, and keep track of restricted areas and the doors you open. Entering a restricted zone or being caught in the wrong place can trigger a lockdown. If guards catch you, they send you to solitary confinement and confiscate your contraband and gathered resources.

Skills and crafting

Daily activities raise your character’s statistics, and higher stats unlock specialized escape routes. Intelligence helps you decipher complex security systems and craft high-tech tools, while Strength helps you make heavy-duty equipment and handle makeshift weapons. Crafting can provide gear for your escape, as well as traps and weapons to neutralize guards, subdue rival inmates or sabotage other players’ plans.

Multiplayer choices

You can pool resources, share information about guard patrols and coordinate a breakout in which everyone escapes. Alternatively, you can keep routes and supplies to yourself, use other inmates as distractions and race them to freedom. The game also supports singleplayer and local split-screen for two players.

Online co-op supports up to six players and includes in-game voice chat for coordinating plans and warning each other about approaching guards.