It seems a good way to drop extra motivation for roleplaying in there, especially if it becomes clear there arent enough escape routes for everyone...

Mark.

Awww, its no fun when you admit it!
-But it is when I make the salad dressing!
(Weebl & Bob)

I agree it's a good plan for horror games, but not a neccessity, neither for that matter is character death (though that obviously helps alot!)

I think a campaign with finding an escape route as a running theme on a survival based sci fi or post apocalypse game could be interesting though...

You mean a bit like the Dark Tower series where they're sort of questing along and stuff gets progressively worse?

That's exactly it...I like the idea of every game players deciding "do I sort out my escape route now, or do the side mission for the laser gun and risk dying?"

I feel this would be a great reward method for risk-taking players, giving survivalist players and risk takers both good fun at the same time.

The biggest downside for this is players who miss a game, but you just create an off scene story explaining where they disappeared to, and what happened to them while the other players were escaping the Hell-Mines of Planet Anthrax (they were probably tortured on Hackroft, the 2nd Prison Moon Morgosh, capital of the Qua'gor Empire, or working as a sex slave in the Pleasure Palaces of Nymphone 3).

Damn.

Now I want to run this...