Don't Escape 3

Don't Escape 3 is the third instalment in the Don't Escape series.

Don't Escape 3 takes place in space on board a spaceship. Besides elements from the previous games, the game also plays out like a murder mystery with all of the crew men, except the player character, dead.

Gameplay
The player character, who serves on board the spaceship the UEFS Horizon, wakes up in the airlock, and has 30 seconds to prevent being ejected. After doing so, the in-game clock starts which gives the player a certain amount of time to figure out what happened on board the ship and take action before life support runs out. Like in "Don't Escape 2", the amount of time left is reduced whenever the player performs a time-consuming action.

As the player investigates the ship, they start to learn that the ship's mission was to investigate remains of a previously missing mining ship. Whilst the wreckage was being surveyed, the crew found a blue crystal, which was taken in for analysis. Logs reveal that the crystal grows using soft tissue, makes loud vibrations, and that the crystal tore the wrecked ship apart.

Upon further investigation, the player discovers that all crew members are dead. It is revealed in the bunk room that the killer is actually the player. The player went to sleep and was infected by the loud vibrations of the crystal. The crystal used the player to murder the crew and then tried to eject the player from the airlock. Since a rescue ship - the UEFS Warsaw was summoned by the captain, the player must decide what action to take.

Depending on what the player decides, different outcomes occur, which have an effect on the ships contamination level, and the general safety of the incoming rescue ship.

Endings
There are a variety of endings, most of which decide the outcome of the ship's contamination level, and the rescue ship.

The player may decide to escape the ship using the escape pod, or fully decontaminate the ship by blowing it up.

The most desirable ending is to get the contamination level as low as possible by destroying the ship's lab, but leave enough clues for the Warsaw to uncover - so they may understand the true danger of the crystal, and the fate of the crew. In the epilogue, it is revealed that the UEFS Horizon was subsequently transported to a secret research facility, known as "Sidereal Plexus One".

Trivia

 * According to the Sidereal Plexus website, the game takes place sometime before February 6th 1996, as there is a classified report there on the UEFS Horizon dated February 8th, and it takes the rescue ship 2 days to reach the Horizon.