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A Way Out

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

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Quick resume

A Way Out is an exclusively co-op adventure where you play the role of one of two prisoners making their daring escape from prison.

Global score

88/100

Genres

Action, Adventure, Indie, Strategy, Simulator, Racing

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    Pros

    • Strong cooperative gameplay
    • Engaging emotional story
    • Well-executed split-screen design
    • Varied mini-games
    • Accessible controls

    Cons

    • Short game length
    • Linear story progression
    • Limited replayability
    • Some clunky combat mechanics
    • Requires ea origin launcher

    Motivations

    • Autonomy

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    • Competence

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    • Competition

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    • Continuation

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    • Cooperation

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    • Creativity

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    • Domination

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    • Escapism

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      "Immersive world, story, and gameplay provide a strong escape from real life stress and offer engaging distraction."

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    • Expectation

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      "Players engage voluntarily for enjoyment and bonding, not out of obligation or external pressure."

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    • Experimenting

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    • Exploration

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    • Expression

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    • Fantasy

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    • Growth

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    • Health

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      "Sedentary gameplay with no physical activity involved."

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    • Idle

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      "Requires active engagement and attention during cooperative play."

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    • Intimacy

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      "Encourages close relationships through cooperative play, shared storytelling, and emotional connection between players."

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    • Leadership

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      "No strong leadership roles; players participate equally with shared decision-making."

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    • Progression

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    • Relaxation

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    • Sensation

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    • Status

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    • Story

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    • Strategy

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    Analysis

    Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Creativity, Exploration, Expression, Story. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Cooperation, Fellowship.

    How to use the graph
    Similar games map

    Each dot is a game. They are arranged from the same motivation profile as in the “Motivations” section below. Closer dots usually mean more similar reasons to play (exploration, competition, relaxation, etc.)—not that one game is “better” than another.

    • Larger dot with a light outline: the game you are viewing.
    • Colour: groups of games with comparable motivation patterns (statistical clusters).
    • Hover a dot to see the game name; click to open its page.
    • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom out and see more games.

    Why don’t the axes read like a score? This view uses t-SNE: it only keeps who is close to whom. The scales are not “good to bad” or hours played—they separate groups on the map. Read distance between dots, not the axis numbers.

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