13 Days to Escape Guide (Unofficial Walkthrough)

For the Roblox game 13 Days to Escape [ALPHA] by RoDark Studios. Last updated 12 November 2026.

You wake up in Cell 13 with no release date. By day you work prison jobs, earn cash, and try to look like an ordinary inmate. By night you hide your tools, move the toilet, and dig. The official description puts it simply: act normal by day, plan your escape by night.

This is a free unofficial guide. We only write what we can check against the official Roblox listing and public player reports. Where a detail still needs a screenshot from our own run, we say so. Play 13 Days to Escape on Roblox — solo, or with up to three friends.

What to do each day

A normal day is a timetable. Large text at the top of the screen announces each period, and most periods come with a countdown. When a timer runs out, other inmates walk to the next area — follow them unless you have a clear reason not to.

Published Day 1 reports show this order. Timers below are what those reports recorded; they may change in ALPHA, so treat them as a starting point.

The standing rule on the objective panel is “Don’t get suspicious.” Stay ready for roll call, keep away from guards and CCTV when you are doing something unusual, and save obvious escape work for after the door locks.

How to make money

Cash from prison jobs is what you spend at OJ’s Deals. You start broke, so Day 1 is mostly about earning enough for the first tools. Interact with job prompts by pressing E.

Three scheduled jobs show up again and again in public guides:

• Library books. The desk guard asks for specific book numbers (examples from one recorded day: #106, #032 and #140; later days use different numbers). Find the matching book on the shelves, pick it up, and deliver it to the desk. Pay is per book. Published guides do not agree on the exact amount — some say 10 cash, another says 13 — so we will confirm this from our own screenshots.
• Peel potatoes. During lunch, at a kitchen or cafeteria station. The task is labelled “Peel potatoes 5/5” and uses a drag gesture. Pay is tied to finishing potatoes. One guide reports $5 per potato; another only says pay comes per completed set. We will confirm the number in-game.
• Pick up litter. During yard time, collect litter until the counter reads “Pick up litter 8/8.” One published run recorded 20 cash for a full set.

Other cash sources have been reported, but they are not regular jobs: a “KILL” hit contract (about 35 cash) that involves attacking another inmate and can raise suspicion; a table dice game during recreation; and cash stacks found on bunks or, at night, in an open prisoner transport. Use the risky ones only if you understand the suspicion cost.

Periods are short. Lunch is the longest window in the reports (about two minutes). Finish one job per period instead of starting three and completing none.

Jobs and classes

Daily jobs (library, potatoes, litter) are how you earn cash during the schedule. Classes are a separate choice, usually unlocked in the lobby with Gems, and they change how your character plays across a run.

November 2026 class guides list a free default Prisoner class, plus paid options:

• Hustler — money-focused; reported unlock cost 20 Gems.
• Medic — healing and support; reported unlock cost 30 Gems.
• Engineer — faster digging; reported unlock cost 50 Gems, with a Spoon as starting gear.
• Murderer — combat-focused; reported unlock cost 100 Gems, with a Knife.
• Spy — stealth-focused; reported unlock cost 200 Gems.

Those names, costs and roles come from published guides, not from our own lobby screenshots yet. Perk details can change in ALPHA, so check the in-game class screen before you spend Gems. For a first escape attempt, the free Prisoner class is enough.

Tools and OJ’s Deals

OJ is the inmate vendor who runs OJ’s Deals. Public reports describe him as an orange-jumpsuit NPC, often near Cell 13, sometimes with a cash-bill icon over his head. Walk up and press E to browse the shop.

The official game description tells you the loop: work jobs, buy tools from OJ’s Deals, hide those tools, move the toilet, and dig your way out.

In published Day 1 recordings, these three tools are the ones that open the Cell 13 route. Prices and stock can change, so confirm them in the shop:

Buying the Screwdriver has been reported to change the objective to “Unscrew the toilet.” Hide tools once you are carrying them — the official description calls this out for a reason. A longer tools page with screenshots is coming next.

The STAFF ONLY door, “your turn,” and the evening countdown

The official game description says: after lights out, prisoners are taken behind the STAFF ONLY door, and they do not come back the same. Your goal is to escape before it is your turn.

We have not independently confirmed a named “countdown prisoner” character, a public timer that names who is taken next, or what happens if you open that door. We will not invent a secret ending. Here is what you can safely act on today:

• Treat the 13-day setup as a reason to prepare a little every night, not as a puzzle we have already solved.
• The hard, verified countdown is RETURN TO CELLS. Reports describe a 15-second warning, sometimes worded “GET INSIDE · LOCKING IN 15s.” Be fully inside your assigned cell — the one you spawned in at roll call — before it hits zero. If you are still outside, reports say suspicion jumps to 100% with the reason “Outside your cell after the lockdown deadline,” and the day ends.
• If you see the STAFF ONLY door in a run, note the exact on-screen text and whether anything happens when you approach it. We will add only clues that the game itself confirms.

Escape basics (Cell 13)

The sequence below is the Cell 13 route described in published walkthroughs of a recorded Day 1 run. It is a useful plan, not a promise that every server or future update will match it. We will tighten these steps after our own screenshots are in.

1. Work the scheduled jobs until you can afford the tools you need from OJ.
2. Buy the Saw and the Screwdriver from OJ’s Deals before evening if you can. One recorded run bought the Saw during yard time and the Screwdriver during recreation.
3. When RETURN TO CELLS appears, get into your own cell first. Then, if you have the Saw, use it on the window bars. Reports mention a “Saw bars” progress bar; when it finishes, the bars come off and the door locks for LOCKDOWN.
4. During LOCKDOWN, climb out through the open window if the bars are gone. One recorded run found cash stacks in an open prisoner transport behind the cell block, then a free Power Drill on a workshop workbench marked with yellow-and-black hazard stripes.
5. Return to your cell, crouch at the toilet, unscrew the bolts with the Screwdriver, and choose “Move aside.” Jump into the opening. With the Power Drill, hold the left mouse button to drill the dirt walls.

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