INITIALISING THE NIGHT
ANDROID APK · v1.0.6
EXPLORE · SURVIVE · ESCAPE
Zara wakes to an empty bed. Her brother Duke is gone, the streets outside are sealed, and something is moving between the lamps. Search the town. Find Duke. Find the way out.
Android 7.1+ (API 25) ARM64 Offline Outside Google Play
01 // About the game
PREY: THE ESCAPE is a first-person horror survival game for Android. Zara's brother and bunkmate, Duke, has vanished from the house. The town outside is sealed by locked gates and walked by things the game calls Ghouls and Zombies.
You get four points of health, sixteen inventory slots and a map that shows only what you have found. No quest markers. No hand-holding. You learn the streets by walking them, the locks by trying them, and the route out by surviving long enough to find it.
Everything runs on-device. No account, no connection, no ads — just you, the dark and the search.
02 // The story
The game opens in the dead of night, in a town where the streetlamps still burn and nobody answers. Zara is asleep. By the time she wakes, her brother Duke is gone.
“In the dead of night, morbid monsters and gruesome ghouls stir in the darkness. Rustles turn to screams and gentle gusts turn to shrieks.”
That is the game's own opening crawl, not marketing copy. It sets the rules before Zara has left her bed: the night belongs to something else, and the town knows it.
Zara sleeps restlessly, woken by yelps from the townfolk. When she gets up, Duke — her brother and bunkmate — is gone from the house. No note. No explanation. The game never says why he left; only that she will go after him.
The roads out are locked. Why the town is sealed is never explained. What the game shows is simpler and worse: every way out is a gate, and every gate wants a key.
At the first locked gate Zara says it aloud: “Duke? Duke!? My brother must of ran off… maybe through that gate over there…” The backlot gate will not open. Arnold, a neighbour who knows her, insists he has not seen Duke. Further on, Johnny says the same.
The town keeps its answers behind locks — and the people who are still here only warn her to keep out of sight.
The build names two hostile types: the Ghoul and the Zombie. They patrol the streets, notice movement, investigate, chase and strike. Their origin, and why they are here, is never stated on screen.
They are not set dressing. A single Ghoul strike deals as much damage as Zara has health.
The escape is mechanical: keys carry codes, a two-slot electrical box powers a gate, and the exit is marked with a green light. Later, at the edge of the field, two generator keys and a multicoloured box stand between Zara and the East Gate.
Duke is found alive — hurt, calling her name. What lies beyond the East Gate is not established anywhere in the project. The story ends at the escape, not the explanation.
Compiled from the intro crawl, in-level signage, map textures and NPC dialogue inside the Unity project. Anything the game does not state is marked UNDISCLOSED rather than invented.
03 // Character file
One playable character. One missing brother. No narrated backstory — only what Zara says, and what she is willing to walk through.
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THE SURVIVOR · DUKE'S SISTER
“Zara sleeps restlessly in her bed, interrupted by the yelps of the townfolk. She will wake in the hours to come, to find her brother and bunkmate Duke gone from the house.” In-game intro crawl
No full-body Zara model exists in the Unity project. Her appearance is never revealed in-game; this viewer shows her actual first-person arms.
Zara's face is never shown: the game is first-person from start to finish. No age, appearance or personality profile is given in the project, so none is presented here as canon.
04 // Threat file
Two enemy types are configured in the build. One patrols slowly and kills in a single strike. The other is faster, weaker, and never alone for long.
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CLASSIFIED / HOSTILE
The Ghoul patrols waypoints, stops at random, investigates a sighting for 2.5 seconds, then chases. One connecting strike deals 4 damage — equal to Zara's full health.
THREAT LEVEL EXTREME
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CLASSIFIED / HOSTILE
Faster than the Ghoul but frailer. The Zombie shares the same patrol / investigate / chase state machine, reaches 6.5 metres per second, and takes two hits to put down. Three unique specimen meshes are configured.
THREAT LEVEL HIGH
THREAT: EXTREME
A single connecting hit ends the run.
THREAT: HIGH
Slower to kill you, faster to reach you.
No abilities, weaknesses, lore or behaviour beyond the configured values above are presented as fact. The project does not explain what the creatures are.
05 // Locations
Four levels, one continuous night. These are the names the game puts on its own streets — on signs, on its maps, and in the mouths of the people still standing in them.
SIGNED IN-GAME — “BACKLOT GATE”
Bins, traffic cones, brick walls and a line of lamps that only half work. The first locked gate is here; Zara's own line points through it. Somewhere past the houses, an exit lamp burns green.
NAMED IN DIALOGUE — “THIS NEIGHBOURHOOD”
A longer service road with the houses pressed close. Arnold calls it “this neighbourhood” and warns that odd things are happening. The map's first instruction is not a route. It is two words: FIND THE KEY.
SIGNED IN-GAME — “SIDE GATE”
Fences, side gates and long sightlines. Johnny stands here, frightened of every approach until he recognises Zara. The map marks a lock and an X, and leaves the rest to you.
LABELLED ON THE MAP — “THE FIELD”
The edge of town, where the corn begins and the map labels its own outskirts “The field”. Two generator keys, a multicoloured electrical box and the East Gate. Duke's voice is somewhere ahead — hurt, but alive.
All four images are real in-game captures from their matching levels. The cornfield is present in the Level 04 scene but sits outside this frame; it is not composited into the shot.
06 // Discoveries
The town is built out of small, readable systems. None of them are explained twice. These are the clues the game leaves in plain sight — with every solution kept off this page.
01 / OBJECT
Every key in the build carries a code, and examining it reads the engraving back to you. Locks want that exact code — not simply “a key”. The wrong one gets a line, not a door.
CODE: REDACTED
02 / MACHINE
Somewhere in the town there is an electrical box with two key slots. Both must be satisfied before the gate it feeds will move. The box is not a switch you can simply flip.
KEYS: 2 / 2 REQUIRED
03 / EXIT
The route out is marked by a gate with a green light. In the first level, Zara says she can use the key on “the gate over there with the green light… then maybe I can get away from this place.”
LOCATION: REDACTED
04 / PAPER
The map is not a route. Its own description hints at hidden spots, and the Level 04 map simply marks “The field” and “You are here”. It tells you what you have found, never what to do next.
HIDDEN SPOTS: UNMARKED
05 / LIGHT
The candle casts a shorter, wider light than the flashlight, and at least one blocker in the build only yields once you are carrying light. A darker corner is not always an empty one.
BLOCKER: REDACTED
06 / PEOPLE
Arnold and Johnny are not enemies. They know Zara, they answer questions, and they cower when the chase begins. A conversation can be worth more than a locked door — and it can lie by omission.
TESTIMONY: PARTIAL
Deliberately omitted from this page: every key code, key location, fuse order and gate solution. The mysteries stay in the game.
07 // Game experience
No quest arrow. No minimap. A flashlight, a candle and whatever the town will give you. The loop is simple, and it is built to make you hesitate.
Walk the streets and learn the layout by hand.
Pick up keys, light and whatever keeps you alive.
Find the candle. See what the dark is hiding.
Match codes, power boxes, open gates.
Read the map. Find the hidden spots.
Reach the gate before it reaches you.
FIELD MANUAL // 01
The town is the map. Streets, backlots and service roads connect in ways you only learn by walking them. Pickups are physical objects in the world, not menu rewards — and there are only sixteen slots to carry them in.
FIELD MANUAL // 02
The flashlight is a thin beam; the candle is shorter but wider, and it is the item that clears at least one light-blocked passage. Keys carry engraved codes. The electrical box has two slots and refuses to power anything until both are filled.
FIELD MANUAL // 03
Health is four points, not a regenerating bar. The map shows what you have found. The gate needs power. Between those three facts is the whole game: search carefully, spend health wisely, and do not let the chase music catch you in the open.
08 // Features
Immersive first-person perspective with a touch-first control scheme.
Search the streets, alleys and interiors. The environment is the map.
Key codes, two-slot electrical boxes and gates that demand thought, not reflexes.
Find keys, a candle, a flashlight and a map hidden throughout the town.
PS1-style rendering, failing lamps, fog and a town that never quite sleeps.
Four points of health, a sprint meter and a Ghoul that can end it in one hit.
09 // Screenshots
Real in-game frames. Click any shot to enlarge.
10 // Trailer
The official trailer is still in the edit. The frames below are the game itself.
No video has been published yet, so nothing here autoplays or pretends to. Until then, the screenshots section is your best look at the game.
SEE THE SCREENSHOTS11 // Download
PREY_THE_ESCAPE_v1.0.6_RELEASE.apk
| Version | 1.0.6 (version code 6) |
|---|---|
| File size | 55.2 MB (57,907,890 bytes) |
| Minimum Android | Android 7.1 — API 25 |
| Architecture | ARM64 (arm64-v8a) |
| Package | com.shiva.preytheescape |
| Distribution | Direct APK — outside Google Play |
| Signing | Release-signed testing build |
| Target API | API 37 (compiled with SDK 37) |
Testing build. The APK is a production release signed for distribution, but it targets Android API 37 and is not on the Google Play Store. It installs and runs as a sideloaded app.
PREY_THE_ESCAPE_v1.0.6_RELEASE.apk.
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12 // FAQ
Yes. The APK on this page is a free download. There are no in-app purchases and no ads.
No. The game runs entirely offline. No account, no login, no always-online check.
The build requires Android 7.1 (API 25) or newer and contains ARM64 binaries only, which covers essentially every phone sold in the last several years.
Zara is the player character. The intro crawl establishes that she wakes to find her brother and bunkmate Duke gone from the house, and sets out across the town to find him.
The build configures two enemy types: the Ghoul, which strikes for your entire health bar, and Zombies, which are faster but deal less damage. Their origin is not explained in the game.
Yes. Each level you clear is remembered, and the CONTINUE button on the main menu takes you back to your furthest point.
The full game: menu, intro crawl, Level 1 through Level 4, loading screen, and the in-app settings that control music, sound effects, controls and graphics.
13 // Contact
Questions, feedback, device problems — all welcome.