Escape: Malice is a two-player co-op escape room-style puzzle horror game. Swallowed by a sinkhole, you find yourself trapped in a nightmarish Japanese mansion haunted by a sinister presence. Solve twisted puzzles, uncover dark secrets, make unforgiving choices, and descend deeper to escape Malice…

Public builds
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Counted once we have watched for 90 days (since 21 Oct 2026)
Distinct builds deployed to a game's public (default) Steam branch, as Steam's client network describes them.
Checked within minutes of each Steam change. Observed since 21 Oct 2026.
Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology
Latest public build
Build 26266925
Update posts
3 postsPosts announcing an update, tagged or not
Posts in a game's official Steam news feed that announce an update: tagged as patch notes by the developer, or plainly about a patch or a released update.
Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology
Typical gap between builds
Not enough builds yet| Build | Went live | Patch notes |
|---|---|---|
| 26266925 | None posted | |
| 25798855 | None posted |
From Steam’s client network, last checked . Builds before 21 Oct 2026, when we started watching, aren't listed. Patch notes are the developer’s update post from an hour before to a day after the build. Not every build gets one. How we count
| Posted | Update |
|---|---|
| 26 Aug 2026 | Hotifx #1 Update Patch notes |
| 31 Jul 2026 | Escape: Malice New Update Update |
| 10 Jun 2026 | [Escape Malice] Update Update |
| 25 Apr 2023 | MALICE 1.06.2 PATCH NOTES - 2023-04-25 Patch notes |
| 18 Apr 2023 | MALICE 1.06.1 PATCH NOTES - 2023-04-18 Patch notes |
| App | Players now | Latest build |
|---|---|---|
| Malice Playtest · App 1955680 | Not yet | 23139823 · |
Separate Steam apps for test, staging and playtest versions of Escape: Malice. They have no store page, so they aren’t counted as games or releases. Builds come from Steam’s client network, players from the Steam Web API every few hours. Steam gives no count for an app nobody can launch. How we count
| 8 Apr 2023 |
| MALICE 1.06 PATCH NOTES - 2023-04-08 Patch notes |
| 30 Dec 2022 | MALICE 1.05.2 HOTFIX PATCH NOTES - 2022-12-30 Patch notes |
| 7 Dec 2022 | MALICE 1.05.1 HOTFIX PATCH NOTES - 2022-12-07 Patch notes |
| 6 Dec 2022 | MALICE 1.05 PATCH NOTES - 2022-12-06 Patch notes |
| 26 Nov 2022 | MALICE 1.04.1 HOTFIX PATCH NOTES - 2022-11-26 Patch notes |
| 25 Nov 2022 | MALICE 1.04 PATCH NOTES - 2022-11-25 Patch notes |
| 17 Nov 2022 | MALICE 1.03 PATCH NOTES - 2022-11-17 Patch notes |
| 11 Nov 2022 | MALICE 1.02 PATCH NOTES - 2022-11-11 Patch notes |
| 8 Nov 2022 | MALICE HOTFIX PATCH NOTES - 2022-11-08 Patch notes |
| 7 Nov 2022 | MALICE PATCH NOTES - 2022-11-08 Patch notes |
| 3 Nov 2022 | Update Notes 3/11/2022 Patch notes |
Steam keeps no record of past build numbers, so before 21 Oct 2026 a game’s update history comes from its own Steam news: posts tagged as patch notes, and untagged posts that plainly announce a patch or a released update. Older posts are still being read in, most played games first. How we count