Day Off! vs Lab Escape
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Day Off!
Race your office chair out of the building, performing aerial tricks while evading your boss. Navigate obstacles and avoid collisions to reach safety. It's a frantic escape with high-stakes office humor.
- Office chair racing
- Aerial stunts
- Boss evasion
- Obstacle avoidance
- High-speed gameplay
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Can you make it home?? Press the gas, control your office chair in the air! Stay ahead of your boss and do awesome tricks! Be careful not to hit your head on the pavement! ----------- "Where do you think YOU'RE going?" "I see you! Don't you ignore me!" "This'll be on your performance review!!"
Lab Escape
Control a captured specimen that must consume meat to grow stronger. Choose random mutations to enhance your abilities and devour enemies in this rogue-like running game. Collect hats to further boost your specimen's power.
- Consume meat to grow
- Select random mutations
- Devour enemies
- Rogue-like gameplay
- Stackable mutation cards
- Collect hats for bonuses
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Welcome, little specimen! You're the unstable... thingy captured by scientist. Consume meats, select random Mutations, and Devour all bad guys in your sight! Every time you gain meat, you can select mutations to make your specimen stronger. Rogue-like style running game with dynamic mutation features. Every mutation cards can stack up to 3 times for better effects. Collect Set of hats to enhance your specimen.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Day Off! at none against Lab Escape's 5. Day Off! also leads on ratings volume (512 vs 164). Lab Escape's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.0). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lab Escape sells 5 one-off in-app purchases. Day Off! asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Day Off! against 4.8 for Lab Escape. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 512 and 164 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 94% and 94% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 20, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Day Off! | Lab Escape |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (512 ratings) | 4.8 (164 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 93.9% of reviews — better | 93.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 512 — better | 164 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 5 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Ad-supported — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 72 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | ponos corporation | SeHyeon Im |
Customer experience
Day Off!
Lab Escape
User reviews
Day Off!
From 512 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 😇 Humorous and relatable
- 🚀 Simple yet engaging concept
Room to improve
- 🔍 Lack of content and features
- 📢 Excessive ads
- 🐛 Occasional bugs and glitches
Lab Escape
From 164 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Fun and addictive gameplay
- 🎨 Cute and appealing art style
- 💡 Great time killer
- 🆓 Ad-supported choice
- 🎮 Simple controls
Room to improve
- 😩 Hats too hard to get
- 📉 Slow progression
- 🐛 Game crashes
- 📱 Resolution issues on newer iPhones
- 🐌 Lagging at high scores
Bugs and requests
Day Off!
Reported bugs
3 issues- Freezing or crashing issues
- Inconsistent or nonsensical in-game messages
- Difficulty balancing problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add more game modes and levels
- Implement a save/progression system
- Introduce customization options for characters and chairs
- Provide an option to remove ads for a one-time fee
Lab Escape
Reported bugs
8 issues- Boxes for hats not working
- Ads causing game crashes
- Screen resolution not fitting iPhone X+
- Lag at high scores (11700+ points)
- FPS drops at high scores (23000+ points)
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- Exceeded limit of 20 boxes glitch
- Right bottom button not registering on some phones
- Game stutters on iPhone 7 with 5000m+ distance
Requested features
8 requests- More boxes/hats drop rate
- Unlockable specimens with different skills
- Potions for speed/damage reduction
- Adjustable skill button position
- More frequent ad opportunities for boxes
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- Fix for purchased items not restoring
- More skills beyond just getting bigger
- iPad Pro version
In-app purchases
Day Off!
No in-app purchases
Lab Escape
- Tiny Supply$0.99
- Supply Bundle$1.99
- AD Devourer$1.99
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- Supply Tower$3.99
- Planetary Supply$7.99
Questions
Is Day Off! free?
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