Escape to Sidious

Escape to Sidious

Sven Kröber · September 1, 2020 · Strategy, Free to Play, Indie, Casual, Simulation

Escape to Sidious is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive74% · 38 📉 Recent reviews down 60%
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Escape to Sidious price

Escape to Sidious is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Escape to Sidious

Escape to Sidious is a classic space browser game with a modern twist. At ETS you start the game with a city. You expand them in real time, strengthen your economy, achieve technological edge, trade, forge alliances, expand your fleet to plunder other settlers and take-over or fund new cities to expand your empire. The gameplay is known to many, so what makes ETS special? We have continuously developed ETS and expanded it with many modern elements:

You can work off daily missions to get rewards
You can solve quests, that explain you how to play and provide ressources at the same time
Many little helpers, which make playing easier. E.g. a combat simulator or a fleet planner
An existing diplomacy system that ensures fairness.
These are just the biggest highlights, but of course there is much more to discover in-game, such as a teleporter or, in addition to the trading center, a black market that fully integrates player trading into the game. Everything has been integrated into the game so carefully that it doesn't look as if it's overloaded. ETS is exactly what you are looking for. It offers the full charm of a classic browser game and appears intuitive and modern.

Escape to Sidious — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Online PvP
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 27, 2024
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9 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 6, 2025
[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] [quote][b]Warning: Third Party Account[/b] This game requires you to create a third party "Escape to Sidious Account" account... there's no valid reason for this in a PC game when SteamWorks is available. This is often done to harvest private data and profile you, with potential sale and transmission of your private data to third parties. The developers will probably argue that you can trust them, but if they were trustworthy they wouldn't demand you create a third party account. This represents a considerable risk to gamers due to the privacy and security implications of developers that wish to bypass Steam and harvest user data. Remember, sometimes if the product is free, YOU are the product.[/quote] This is a nasty P2W German browser/mobile app "game" that's basically a set of menus and glorified spreadsheets, pretending to be a space 4X game, but really it feels just like any other mobile app cash grab. So, "Escape to Sidious" is a dead PvP game. Why did it fail? It's …
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Dec 9, 2023
This game is only half translated from German into English. It's very hard to learn to play a 4X game when you can't understand the tech tree.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 3, 2023
[h1]Before I played Escape to Sidious, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Nov 14, 2025
Игра 'Escape to Sidious' - это захватывающий квест, который заставляет поломать голову! Сюжет затягивает с первых минут: вы - член экипажа космического корабля, попавшего в плен к злобному Сидиусу, и ваша задача - сбежать. Что понравилось: * Интересные, разнообразные головоломки, требующие логики и внимательности. * Атмосфера напряженности поддерживается за счет мрачной обстановки и постоянного ощущения опасности. * Нелинейность прохождения: есть несколько путей решения задач, что добавляет реиграбельности. * Удобное управление и хорошая графика, несмотря на простоту концепции. Недостатки, которые стоит учесть: * Иногда сложно понять, что именно нужно сделать, не хватает более четких подсказок (хотя, возможно, это часть челленджа). * Встречаются небольшие баги, не критичные, но немного портят впечатление. В целом, 'Escape to Sidious' - достойный представитель жанра point-and-click adventure. Если вы любите сложные головоломки и космическую тематику, то эта игра определенно для вас. Рекомендую!
Recommended Apr 13, 2024
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