Tunnel Escape

Tunnel Escape is a roguelite exploration RPG and adventure game set in a city infected by a zombie virus. You play as Beatrice, who discovers the entrance to a secret biological laboratory while fleeing the spreading infection. Documents inside describe a successfully developed vaccine, sending her deep into the facility on a search that could make her humanity’s last hope. Combat combines intense gunplay with turn-based action, strategy, crafting and a deep skill system, where every shot, grenade and step can affect success or failure.

Explore the laboratory

The facility is massive and interconnected, with different enemy selections in each stage and a boss battle at the end. Its threats include mutated creatures, infested animals, living plants, weaponized machinery and other abominations. To defeat each boss, you need to use strategy, learn its weaknesses and choose the right skills at the right time.

Weapons and skills

Beatrice can unlock guns with distinct advantages and drawbacks, as well as throwables that can blast enemies apart, blind or stun them, or set them on fire. She can also kick enemies at close range, including with her high heels. Each gun has its own active skills: the pistol can gain rapid fire, the shotgun can use birdshot to hit all enemies at once, and the automatic rifle can empty a full magazine into a horde. Hundreds of skills are available, including many passive skills for offense and defense, giving Beatrice more strategic options as she progresses.

Events and crafting

Random encounters can bring other characters, chests with valuable loot, vending machines that sell stat-altering drinks, strange plants to water at your own risk, and thieving rodents to defeat. Beatrice must adapt to both helpful and dangerous encounters, so runs differ from one another. Once crafting is unlocked, you can combine items into new or stronger ones, including recovery items and ammunition for a secret weapon. These items can be crafted outside active battles, giving you a chance to prepare for later fights.

Difficulty and progression

Different difficulty settings let you choose between focusing on the story and taking on a greater challenge. The roguelite system grants permanent upgrades that can make the game easier after failed attempts. Later in the game, Beatrice’s level can also be lowered for an additional challenge.

Hand-drawn animation

The animations use traditional techniques, with each frame and movement variation hand-drawn and manually refined. Scripting controls Beatrice’s facial expressions and subtle movements, along with particle effects and voice-overs for events.