The Great Escape was published by Ocean Software in 1986 for the ZX Spectrum,[1] Commodore 64,[2] Amstrad CPC[3] and DOS.

The well-known convertor Trevor Inns created the Commodore 64 version [4] The player controls an unnamed prisoner of war who has been interned in a POW camp somewhere in northern Germany in 1942.

The gaming environment is displayed in isometric 2.5D with the player's character initially in bed at the beginning of a day in the camp.

[5] The ZX Spectrum version of The Great Escape was placed at number 23 in the Your Sinclair official top 100,[7] after originally being scored 9 out of 10, and a Megagame award in that magazine's January 1987 issue.

A reverse engineering project to create portable C source code from the game's binary was started in 2012.