Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-34160320-20171231182117/@comment-26927129-20180519004429

I think its overrated and I don't really like it that much. If its your cup of tea well good for you, but it definitely isnt mine. It's a more complex Cops and Robbers with some cashgrabs. But pretty much every game on the popular page has cash grabs, so, whatever. For me I could play it for maybe like 20 minutes to an hour but after that I might get bored.

But as for why it is popular I think its because it keeps making updates to make the game a little more.. I honestly don't know how to explain it,  I guess keeping some challenge to it and new strategies for the cops and the criminals and at the same time keeping the game itself mainly simple. By adding new gear, cars, and the such, they give people both sides strategies, and this will make the game interesting because the players can develop strategies and then some players could make strategies to counter other players' strategies and so on and so forth. Also, not only that, many popular-ish ROBLOX YouTubers seem to have made videos about it, which is more pressure to play the game if your favorite YouTuber had played. It's also almost always literally the first game in Popular as well, so if you're a new player you'll probably check it out eventually and you might get sucked in to it. And like you said there were already two games somewhat like Jailbreak before its time, Prison Life and Redwood, so players were already getting used to the cops/robbers kind of game. When Jailbreak came out it improved those games by adding some more stuff and focusing more on actually catching & being on the run than trying to escape and trying to prevent escape. Which probably made stuff funner.

(BTW I don't think its that awful. Just thought the grumpy cat would be funny. Sometimes I might play Jailbreak because it can be fun when I don't have any interest on the other games but like I said it gets repetitive and after an hour or so I get bored again.)