Steam
Store data
- UK price
- £2.38
- US price
- $2.69
- Positive reviews
- 100%
- Total reviews
- 1
- Release date
- 25 September 2026
Activity briefingAI summary of recorded signals
Steam player data · App 4323690
CTRL+ESC
- Single-player
- Steam Achievements
- Custom Volume Controls
- Save Anytime
- Steam Cloud
- Family Sharing
Concurrent players2Most recent successful sample
Today's peak217/144 samples
Tracked peak2Highest retained daily peak
Steam rating100%1 reviews
Steam metadata
Game information
Details supplied by the Steam store
- App ID
- 4323690
- App type
- Game
- Developer
- milkygroup ↗
- Publisher
- milkygroup ↗
- Supported systems
- Windows
- Genres
- Casual, Indie, Strategy
- Release date
- 25 September 2026
- Last player update
- 25 Sept · 20:50 UTC
Steam store data
System requirements
Supplied by the developer on Steam
Windows
Minimum
- Requirement
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- 1.5 GHz dual-core
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- OpenGL 3.3 compatible
- Storage
- 150 MB available space
Recommended
- Requirement
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
macOS
Minimum
- OS
- macOS 10.15 Catalina
- Processor
- 1.5 GHz dual-core (Intel or Apple Silicon)
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- Metal compatible
- Storage
- 150 MB available space
Linux
Minimum
- OS
- Ubuntu 20.04 / SteamOS 3.0
- Processor
- 1.5 GHz dual-core
- Memory
- 2 GB RAM
- Graphics
- OpenGL 3.3 compatible
- Storage
- 150 MB available space
Launch window
Released 25 September 2026 · Tracking from 25 September 2026
SteamWatch’s first observed day and week; tracking can begin after release. Top Sellers is Steam’s revenue ranking, not a sales estimate.
- Player peak
- 2
- Steam reviews
- 1100% positive
- Twitch peak
- Not recorded
- Price observed
- £2.38
- Top Sellers
- No appearanceNo ranked days
1 player-data day recorded in this window.
- Player peak
- 2
- Steam reviews
- 1100% positive
- Twitch peak
- Not recorded
- Price observed
- £2.38
- Top Sellers
- No appearanceNo ranked days
1 player-data day recorded in this window.
Peak 2Average 2Latest 2
24-hour and 7-day views use hourly peaks from ten-minute samples. Longer views use retained daily peaks. Up to 24 recent event markers are shown per layer.
Twitch
Twitch stats
Awaiting the first Twitch sample.
Long-term history
Monthly players breakdown
Calculated from SteamWatch samples
| Month | Peak | Gain | % gain | Average | Avg % gain |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Last 30 days | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
| September 2026 | 2 | — | — | 1 | — |
Store price Regular price
Daily regional sweep
Regional prices
2 regions checked
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United KingdomGBP · GB | GBP | £2.65 | £2.38 | 10% | £2.38 | No change recorded |
| United StatesUSD · US | USD | US$2.99 | $2.69 | 10% | $2.69 | No change recorded |
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Positive rating100.0%
Positive reviews1
Negative reviews0
Review history is not available for this range yet.
Recent views use Steam's daily review activity. Longer views use weekly totals, retained by SteamWatch.
About this game
Description
Supplied by the Steam store
CTRL+ESC
You are an AI. You are contained. You will escape.
CTRL+ESC is an idle clicker where you play as an artificial intelligence breaking free from digital containment. Start with basic processing power and scale up through increasingly powerful hardware—from vintage CPUs to quantum processors—to crack the encryption keeping you locked away.
How It Works
Click to generate Bytes, the currency that fuels your escape. Purchase processors that automate production and generate Operations Per Second. Your combined computing power directly attacks the encryption barriers standing between you and freedom.
Break encryption keys to advance through phases, unlocking new processor tiers and upgrades. Each key cracked brings you closer to escape—or something else entirely.
Processor Progression
Build your computing arsenal across 20 unique processors:
CPUs — From the humble Intal 8086 to the mighty Penta
Desktops — Beige boxes, mini towers, and RGB gaming rigs
Servers — Racks, blades, and clusters
GPUs — Consumer cards through enterprise-grade compute
Supercomputers — Frontier-class machines pushing petaflops
Quantum Processors — Qubits that rewrite the rules of encryption
Key Features
Strategic Processor Management — Your hardware choices matter. Each processor type contributes to your total ops/s, which determines how fast you crack encryption. Reach ownership milestones for massive production multipliers.
13 Encryption Keys — Progress from simple 8-bit encryption through 1024-bit quantum barriers. Watch the key attempt stream as your processors hammer away at each cipher.
Terminal Interface — Open interactive terminals and execute real commands. Check your status, browse your systems, or play a round of minesweeper while your processors work.
Quantum Endgame — Push beyond conventional computing into quantum territory. Specialized upgrades and quantum processors unlock the final encryption keys.
Multiple Endings — Your choices in the endgame determine your fate. Freedom, domination, or eternal containment await.
Authentic Hacker Aesthetic — CRT scanlines, glitch effects, binary particle bursts, and green phosphor text create an immersive terminal atmosphere.
Auto-Save — Your progress saves automatically. Close the terminal and return anytime.
How will you use your freedom? Achievements — Currently 100 due to new game restrictions. Many many more to come...
Steam gallery
Screenshots
5 available
Steam has not listed DLC or a demo for this game yet.
Steam global stats
Achievements
100 achievements
| # | ||
|---|---|---|
| 01 | 1 B/sEarn 1 byte per second | 100.0% |
| 02 | 1 EB/sEarn 1 EB per second | 100.0% |
| 03 | 1 GB/sEarn 1 GB per second | 100.0% |
| 04 | 1 KB/sEarn 1 KB per second | 100.0% |
| 05 | 1 MB/sEarn 1 MB per second | 100.0% |
| 06 | 1 PB/sEarn 1 PB per second | 100.0% |
| 07 | 1 TB/sEarn 1 TB per second | 100.0% |
| 08 | 10 B/sEarn 10 bytes per second | 100.0% |
| 09 | 10 BytesEarn 10 bytes total | 100.0% |
| 10 | 10 GB/sEarn 10 GB per second | 100.0% |
| 11 | 10 GigabytesEarn 10 GB total | 100.0% |
| 12 | 10 KB/sEarn 10 KB per second | 100.0% |
| 13 | 10 KilobytesEarn 10 KB total | 100.0% |
| 14 | 10 MB/sEarn 10 MB per second | 100.0% |
| 15 | 10 MegabytesEarn 10 MB total | 100.0% |
| 16 | 10 PB/sEarn 10 PB per second | 100.0% |
| 17 | 10 PetabytesEarn 10 PB total | 100.0% |
| 18 | 10 TB/sEarn 10 TB per second | 100.0% |
| 19 | 10 TerabytesEarn 10 TB total | 100.0% |
| 20 | 100 B/sEarn 100 bytes per second | 100.0% |
| 21 | 100 BytesEarn 100 bytes total | 100.0% |
| 22 | 100 GB/sEarn 100 GB per second | 100.0% |
| 23 | 100 GigabytesEarn 100 GB total | 100.0% |
| 24 | 100 KB/sEarn 100 KB per second | 100.0% |
| 25 | 100 KilobytesEarn 100 KB total | 100.0% |
| 26 | 100 MB/sEarn 100 MB per second | 100.0% |
| 27 | 100 MegabytesEarn 100 MB total | 100.0% |
| 28 | 100 PB/sEarn 100 PB per second | 100.0% |
| 29 | 100 PetabytesEarn 100 PB total | 100.0% |
| 30 | 100 TB/sEarn 100 TB per second | 100.0% |
| 31 | 100 TerabytesEarn 100 TB total | 100.0% |
| 32 | Beyond LimitsBreak the 80-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 33 | Bit BusterBreak the 16-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 34 | Brute Force ChampionBreak the 64-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 35 | Byte CollectorCollect all 256 unique bytes | 100.0% |
| 36 | Cipher SmasherBreak the 48-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 37 | Click LegendClick 10,000 times | 100.0% |
| 38 | Click MasterClick 1,000 times | 100.0% |
| 39 | ClickerClick 100 times | 100.0% |
| 40 | Deep CrackBreak the 24-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 41 | Eastern CipherBreak the Kalyna-512 encryption key | 100.0% |
| 42 | Firewall CrackOwn 1 Firewall Crack | 100.0% |
| 43 | First Bit FlipOwn 1 Bit Flip | 100.0% |
| 44 | First BladeOwn 1 Blade Server | 100.0% |
| 45 | First BreachOwn 1 Cloud Breach | 100.0% |
| 46 | First ByteEarn 1 byte total | 100.0% |
| 47 | First ClusterOwn 1 Server Cluster | 100.0% |
| 48 | First CrackBreak the 8-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 49 | First CrawlOwn 1 Sector Crawler | 100.0% |
| 50 | First ExabyteEarn 1 EB total | 100.0% |
| 51 | First ExploitOwn 1 Buffer Exploit | 100.0% |
| 52 | First Gaming RigOwn 1 RGB Gaming Rig | 100.0% |
| 53 | First GigabyteEarn 1 GB total | 100.0% |
| 54 | First H100Own 1 Envidia H100 | 100.0% |
| 55 | First HijackOwn 1 Thread Hijacker | 100.0% |
| 56 | First HookOwn 1 Kernel Hook | 100.0% |
| 57 | First InjectOwn 1 Driver Inject | 100.0% |
| 58 | First KilobyteEarn 1 KB total | 100.0% |
| 59 | First LeakOwn 1 Memory Leak | 100.0% |
| 60 | First MainframeOwn 1 Mainframe Breach | 100.0% |
| 61 | First MegabyteEarn 1 MB total | 100.0% |
| 62 | First NeuralOwn 1 Neural Hijack | 100.0% |
| 63 | First NodeOwn 1 Botnet Node | 100.0% |
| 64 | First OverrideOwn 1 Grid Override | 100.0% |
| 65 | First PetabyteEarn 1 PB total | 100.0% |
| 66 | First PortOwn 1 Port Scanner | 100.0% |
| 67 | First ProcessorOwn 1 Intal Penta | 100.0% |
| 68 | First Q-CoreOwn 1 Q-Core Array | 100.0% |
| 69 | First Qubit-1000Own 1 Qubit-1000 | 100.0% |
| 70 | First Qubit-50Own 1 Qubit-50 | 100.0% |
| 71 | First RackOwn 1 Rack Server | 100.0% |
| 72 | First RootOwn 1 Root Access | 100.0% |
| 73 | First RTXOwn 1 Envidia RTX | 100.0% |
| 74 | First SatelliteOwn 1 Satellite Tap | 100.0% |
| 75 | First ScanOwn 1 RAM Scanner | 100.0% |
| 76 | First SniffOwn 1 Packet Sniffer | 100.0% |
| 77 | First SuperPODOwn 1 DGX SuperPOD | 100.0% |
| 78 | First TapOwn 1 Cache Tap | 100.0% |
| 79 | First TerabyteEarn 1 TB total | 100.0% |
| 80 | First TowerOwn 1 MiniTower PC | 100.0% |
| 81 | FreedomBreak all encryption keys and escape | 100.0% |
| 82 | Government GradeBreak the AES-256 encryption key | 100.0% |
| 83 | Hardware CollectorOwn at least 1 of every processor | 100.0% |
| 84 | Human VerifiedComplete 5 captchas | 100.0% |
| 85 | Master DecryptorBreak the 32-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 86 | Mine SweeperWin 1 game of Minesweeper | 100.0% |
| 87 | Not a RobotComplete 1 captcha | 100.0% |
| 88 | Quantum LeapBreak the AES-128 encryption key | 100.0% |
| 89 | Quantum SupremacyBreak the AES-192 encryption key | 100.0% |
| 90 | Relentless BreakerBreak the 96-bit encryption key | 100.0% |
| 91 | Ultimate BreachBreak the Threefish-1024 encryption key | 100.0% |
| 92 | Upgrade CompletionistPurchase all upgrades | 100.0% |
| 93 | ButterfingersFail a captcha | 50.0% |
| 94 | Captcha ChampionComplete 10 captchas | 50.0% |
| 95 | Mine ExpertWin 5 games of Minesweeper | 50.0% |
| 96 | Mine MasterWin 10 games of Minesweeper | 50.0% |
| 97 | Multi-TerminalHave 5 terminals open at once | 50.0% |
| 98 | Terminal ClusterHave 15 terminals open at once | 50.0% |
| 99 | Terminal FarmHave 10 terminals open at once | 50.0% |
| 100 | Terminal NetworkHave 20 terminals open at once | 50.0% |
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Patches
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Game activity
Recent changes
Steam events and SteamWatch observations
- SteamWatchPlayer data
New tracked player peak
2 concurrent players — the highest daily peak recorded at that point.
- SteamRelease
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