Play Escaping the Prison on PokiFree on Poki. Pick a tool and watch the result.
- Made by
- PuffballsUnited Poki page data
- Released
- On Poki since 30 September 2019; files last updated 12 October 2023. A remastered edition is part of The Henry Stickmin Collection on Steam, released 7 August 2020. Poki page data; Steam
- You play by
- “Mouse click to interact with objects.” Poki
- Length
- No source.
- Phone
- Poki lists desktop and mobile. Not tested.
- Cost
- Free, no account. The paid Steam collection costs £11.99.
- Adverts
- 2 slots on the Poki page. No video before the game.
- Age rating
- No PEGI entry. The Steam collection: 12 in Brazil and Germany, 18 from Indonesia’s automatic system.
- Public rating
- 4.62 of 5 from 3,269,130 votes Poki, 11 November 2026
Henry Stickmin sits in a prison cell with a cake on the floor beside him, and 2 guards stand outside the bars. Poki’s description calls Escaping the Prison “the second installment of the Henry Stickmin legacy series” and gives the aim in 1 line: “get past the guards without being caught.”
How a choice game differs from the other 5
In chapters I to V you look around a scene and click on whatever might help. Here the game does the looking for you. It stops, draws the options with their names written beside them, and waits for 1 click. A short animation then shows what Henry does with your pick.
Steam’s page for the paid collection describes the series as “a Newgrounds choose-your-own-path classic” and states the rule: “Correct choices will move the story forward, but incorrect choices lead to a fail.” Poki’s text warns that most attempts “end badly in entertaining ways” and tells you to keep trying other approaches.
What the first 2 choices showed on 11 November 2026
The game loaded on the Poki page in desktop Chromium after about 15 seconds, with no video advert. The title screen had a PLAY button, the credit “Animated by: Puffballs United” and a link to watch Breaking the Bank, the first game of the series. After PLAY came a short scene of 2 guards outside the cell, with a Skip arrow.
Then the first choice. Henry sat on the floor beside the cake with 6 tools drawn round him, each labelled: File, NrG Drink, Teleporter, Rocket Launcher, Cellphone and Drill. We clicked Drill. Henry drilled through the floor and dropped into a washroom below, where the game offered 2 new options, Opacitator and Crowbar. The session stopped there.
Money and adverts around Escaping the Prison
Poki asks for no payment and no account. The page carried 2 slots marked ADVERTISEMENT, 1 in the right column and 1 under the game. On the screens seen there was no shop, no coin counter and no button offering a reward for watching a video. Poki’s page code allows a first advert break 2 minutes into play, and none came during our short session.
A remastered version of the same game, with new backgrounds and sound effects, is sold on Steam inside The Henry Stickmin Collection for £11.99, published by Innersloth. Poki’s page data lists that Steam page. No buy button appeared inside the browser game.
Ratings for the Steam collection, and what the browser game shows
PEGI’s database had no entry for Henry Stickmin on 11 November 2026. Steam’s data for the paid collection carries 3 ratings. Brazil’s DEJUS gives 12, for fantasy violence, violence, criminal acts and legal drugs. Steam’s German rating is also 12, for alcohol or tobacco and violence. The Indonesian IGRS figure, generated automatically, is 18.
The browser game is drawn in plain black-and-white stick figures on grey. The screens seen showed guards, a cell and a list of tools that includes a rocket launcher. None of the fails the Steam page promises was seen.
Rating, dates and the rest of the series
Poki’s page data gave 4.62 out of 5 from 3,269,130 votes on 11 November 2026: 2,960,016 likes and 309,114 dislikes, with no period stated. No other game in this book has as many votes. Poki lists 4 more Henry Stickmin games by the same maker: Breaking the Bank, Stealing the Diamond, Infiltrating the Airship and Fleeing the Complex. Fleeing the Complex was opened to its menu on 10 November; the other 3 pages were read and the games not opened.