Don't Get Caught Games

In Don't Get Caught games someone or something is looking for you, and your job is to stay out of sight. Sometimes you hide, sometimes you run, and sometimes you creep slowly past guards. There are about 90 in this section.

A bit of everything

The keyword is stealth, but the section covers several styles. Stadium Sneak Out is about slipping in unseen. Exit Isol8 and Tomb of the Mark 2 feel more like getting out of a closed space. With a mystery or crime tone, like Incriminati or Detective Jealous, you have to think through every step. If you'd rather just bolt, there's Mario Run or Assassins Creed Freerunners.

There are also funny, cartoon-style options, like Fluffy aventura en la cocina or Sheep Sheep Wolf.

How they usually play

Most use the arrow keys, the mouse or your finger. Some are turn-based, though nearly all run in real time. You lose when the pursuer sees or catches you, and then you redo the stage. You win by reaching the exit, an object or a marked spot.

Tips to avoid so many restarts

Before moving, watch whoever is hunting you for a moment. Almost all of them follow the same route or look in the same direction every time, and that's your window to slip past. If the game shows where the guard is looking, don't stay inside that zone longer than you have to.

Don't run on autopilot. Rushing is the main reason you get caught, and one well-timed step beats three fast, sloppy ones. In the run-away games, the opposite applies: don't stop to think. You pick your route by looking at what's coming, not at what you just passed.

Two different paces

It helps to tell stealth games, which you play slowly, looking and waiting, from escape games, which you play fast. Stadium Sneak Out or Incriminati ask for patience; Mario Run or Assassins Creed Freerunners ask for quick decisions. If the first kind stresses you out, try the second, and the other way around. In the crime or detective ones, read the text carefully: it usually explains what you need to do.