Prison Escape: Push the Guards

Mission briefing

The guards are closing in. Your way out? Push straight through. Prison Escape: Push the Guards is a 3D action game where you play a prisoner trying to break free. Move through crowds of police officers, line up your push, and send the guards tumbling off the platforms. Stay away from the edge yourself: one bad move can end your escape attempt. Each section puts more guards between you and the finish. Find a good angle, clear a path, and keep moving. Big crowds turn into funny ragdoll pileups when you land the right shove. Collect coins, unlock weapons, and customize your prisoner with new looks and pets. Simple drag-and-release controls make this jailbreak easy to pick up on desktop or mobile. Can you push past the police and finish your prison run?

Field manual

Push the guards out of your way, clear the required enemies in each section, and reach the finish. Keep your prisoner on the platforms and avoid falling off the edge. Desktop: Move with WASD or the arrow keys. Press Space to push. Alternatively, hold the left mouse button and drag to move, then release to push. Mobile: Touch and drag to move. Release your finger to push. Line up several guards before attacking to knock back a crowd. Collect coins to unlock items and customize your character.

Launch orders: press Launch mission above and the game loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first move. It is designed for a portrait (upright) screen and takes its orders from mouse, keyboard or touch, depending on the mission. It is built tall, for an upright screen — a phone held normally frames it best, though any window will run it. If it offers a fullscreen control, use it — a fight this size deserves the whole screen.

Field notes for action operations

• First run is reconnaissance. Spend it learning where the danger actually spawns from instead of chasing a score — most action games announce their patterns honestly in the opening minute, then repeat them with worse manners.
• Movement is a defensive stat. A moving target at half health outlives a stationary one at full health in nearly every game on this board, so keep relocating between shots, strikes and reloads.
• Learn the exit before the entrance closes. In arena and chase games alike, the players who survive longest are the ones who noticed the second doorway while everyone else was watching the first.

Prison Escape: Push the Guards — questions from the ranks

What does it cost to play Prison Escape: Push the Guards?

Nothing at all. The mission is free from the first order to the last — no sign-up, no download, no paid tier guarding the good levels. The advertising around this page is what keeps the board free.

What sort of mission is Prison Escape: Push the Guards?

Prison Escape: Push the Guards is filed in our Action theatre. Like every operation on this board, it is a browser game — read the briefing above for the publisher's own account of what you are deploying into.

Can I run Prison Escape: Push the Guards on a phone or tablet?

Yes. It plays in the browser on phones and tablets exactly as it does on a computer. It is built tall, for an upright screen — a phone held normally frames it best, though any window will run it.

Do I have to install anything before playing?

No installation of any kind. Prison Escape: Push the Guards is an HTML5 game: press the launch button and it loads on this page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind.

After-action

Mission complete, or still pinned down? The full Action theatre is one click away — The main hall of the board: 469 operations where something is always moving, exploding, escaping or being chased. If a game has a pulse and a problem, it is probably filed here.