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1000 days to escape

PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS • 2019

Should you play it?

Only 1000 days left until the end of the world. You have to realize the largest space program ever to save as many people as you can. Explore planets, colonize them, help people find a new home.

What works

  • Engaging time management and strategy
  • Simple and cute graphics
  • Short, replayable sessions
  • Leaderboards and achievements
  • Good value for price

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive gameplay
  • Limited content and depth
  • No multiplayer or social features
  • Some ui and control frustrations
  • Lack of tutorial and save feature

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Slipways

  • Terraformers

  • IXION

  • Uplink

  • Star Trek: Voyager - Across the Unknown

  • Terraformers: First Steps on Mars

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like 1000 days to escape but with less leadership over others

  • Out There: Ω Edition

  • Solar Settlers

  • Feed the Deep

  • GALAK-Z

  • The Greenening

  • Space Scavenger

More expressive

Games that feels like 1000 days to escape but with more self-expression and customization

  • Spaceflight Simulator

  • Galaxy Pass Station

  • Juno: New Origins

  • Thrive

  • Halcyon 6: Starbase Commander

  • Unexplored 2: The Wayfarer's Legacy

More continuation-driven

Games that feels like 1000 days to escape but with an even stronger pull to keep playing

  • Solar Expanse - Space Exploration Manager

  • Distant Worlds 2

  • Approaching Infinity

  • Shortest Trip to Earth

  • EarthX

  • Vivid Knight

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

1000 days to escape: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Expression, Fellowship, Cooperation, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Status, Competition.

Last update: 13/08/2026