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Deadline Escape

Deadline Escape is a Low Poly Extraction Looter Shooter that throws you into a Post-Apocalyptic World. Scavenge for valuable resources, face deadly enemies and fight for your survival as the clock ticks down toward the deadline.

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March 16, 2026
138 days ago
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About the Game

The world has collapsed. Deadline Escape puts you in the middle of a relentless struggle for survival in a devastated post-apocalyptic setting. Every map you enter holds valuable loot, hidden dangers, and the constant risk of not making it back. Your only goal: stay alive long enough to escape.

Your Hideout is where survival begins. Here you’ll store supplies, manage your inventory, and prepare for your next Raid. Traders, missions, and progression systems provide you with the tools to keep moving forward if you can gather enough resources to return.

Once you step outside, safety disappears. Across 4 maps filled with threats, you’ll need to scavenge food, water, and equipment while facing undead, hostile survivors, and a world that doesn’t forgive mistakes. With Softcore and Hardcore modes, the choice is yours: a more forgiving survival, or a brutal test where every decision matters. Will you escape the deadline… or become just another casualty of the apocalypse?

  • Survival Mechanics: Health, Stamina, Thirst and Hunger.

  • Personal Hideout to storage items, trade.

  • Grid Slot Inventory.

  • Softcore and Hardcore mode.

  • Secure Container.

  • More than 300 items: Equipments, Storage Containers, Weapons, Attachments, Consumables, Materials, Keys, Quest Items.

  • Explore 4 different Map Scenarios.

  • Different types of enemies: Zombies, Rebels, Renegades and Bosses.

  • Level Up to unlock, NPCs, Maps, Hideout functionalities.

  • More than 200 Quests with different types.

  • Shooting Range area.

  • Day/Night and Weather Cycles.

  • Game Statistics.

  • Every map comes with its own countdown, Escape before the Deadline arrives.

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