Escape

Escape is a 1996 strategy game by John V. Holder, modeled on the classic Daleks. The player moves a single character around a grid one turn at a time while robots close in from every side; survival depends on luring pursuers into the scenery or into each other so that they crash and are removed from the board.

Gameplay

Each turn the player picks a direction; every robot then advances one tile toward the player. Two robots that collide with each other or with terrain are destroyed, so the puzzle is about steering the swarm into self-destructive paths rather than simply outrunning it.

Versions

Two builds are preserved: Escape! 1.1, a compact 118 KB release, and Escape! 2.1, a larger 351 KB revision. Both run on 68k and PowerPC Macs and target System 6.x through Mac OS 8.1.

Shareware

Holder distributed Escape as shareware; the Macintosh Garden listing notes a registration name ("InFiNiTe vOiD") covering 100 copies, the kind of community-bulk registration common to late-1990s Mac shareware.

Emulation

The 68k/PPC builds run cleanly under SheepShaver, Basilisk II, and Mini vMac, making Escape one of the easier Daleks-clones to revisit on modern hardware.