Last checked: August 21, 2026
RUNAWAYS Beginner's Guide – Vault Heists, Police Levels & the Run to Mexico
By the end you will know every RUNAWAYS control, how the money loop pays, the checkpoint route to Mexico, what police level 5 costs you, and — the part most guides get wrong — how to buy every class and almost every vehicle with Credz instead of Robux. Stats are live from the Roblox API on August 21, 2026.
What this guide covers
- Learn the seven controls before your first robbery
- Run the rob → pawn → vault money loop
- Survive the police heat scale up to level 5
- Drive the route south: Kansas → Oklahoma → Texas → Mexico
- Read the difficulty curve from real completion numbers
- Buy a vehicle with Credz instead of Robux
- Pick a class and know exactly what it changes
RUNAWAYS [beta] is an open-world crime and escape game by supercat games (Roblox group 32943081, run by Plutonem, 110,031 members), the group's only public experience. In the developer's own words you have been "found guilty of crimes you definitely committed," and your job is to rob, pawn, blow vaults and outrun police until you cross the border. It launched April 23, 2025, was last updated August 19, 2026 at 18:02 UTC, and as of August 21, 2026 runs 36,022 concurrent players across 16,663,677 visits at a 94.9% approval rating (77,819 to 4,209). Servers hold 50 players. The RUNAWAYS hub tracks the update timeline.
1. Learn the Seven Controls Before Your First Robbery
RUNAWAYS publishes its complete control scheme on the game page — exactly seven bindings:
| Input | Action |
|---|---|
| Click / Touch | Punch — or the equipped tool's action |
| E | Equip — or the drag action |
| X | Drop tool |
| R | Reload gun |
| Q | Attach |
| F | Inventory |
| C | Crouch / Slide |
Two matter more than new players expect. E doubles as the drag action: the community wiki splits every item into equippable (fits a backpack) and draggable (car only), and draggable loot moves only by attaching it to a vehicle. And X drops your tool, one key from R (reload); fumbling that in a firefight is how beginners disarm themselves. The game uses R6 avatars.
2. Run the Rob → Pawn → Vault Money Loop
The core economy is a chain the developer states plainly: rob anything in your way, pawn your loot for cash, blow open vaults. Loot is not money — it has to be converted at a pawn buyer first, so every robbery carries a second risk window: the trip there holding evidence.
Not all loot is worth the same trip. The wiki's price table puts a Gramophone at $3,000 and a Cat Statue at $1,800, but both are draggable and need a car. Backpack-sized valuables are cheaper: Diamond Ring $730, Diamond $720, Gold Tiara $705. Looted weapons sell too — a Minigun fetches $4,000.
Vaults are the top of the ladder, tracked by the Heist badge: earned 439,640 times as of August 21, 2026, 8.1% of everyone who has loaded the game. Nine in ten players never breach one. And High Roller, for holding $50,000 at any point during an escape, has been earned just 1,086 times — 0.020% of players, one in 4,972. Treat $50,000 as the ceiling, not a target.
3. Survive the Police Heat Scale Up to Level 5
Police level 5 is the highest tier the badge set tracks, and reaching it earns FDI Most Wanted — the in-game federal agency is named FDI. It has been awarded 115,083 times, 2.1% of players.
Heat is also a scoring input: the wiki lists wanted level as one of the four inputs to your end-of-run Credz payout. A separate badge, Hardened Criminal, for escaping while still at level 5, has been earned 14,760 times against 50,499 escapes overall — 29.2% of escapes were made at maximum heat, so seven in ten players cool down first.
4. Drive the Route South: Kansas → Oklahoma → Texas → Mexico
The escape is a staged run south through three tracked state lines, each with a badge, ending in Mexico. Counts as of August 21, 2026:
- Kansas Checkpoint — "You crossed the Kansas state line." Earned 1,342,087 times.
- Oklahoma Checkpoint — "You crossed the Oklahoma state line." Earned 546,921 times.
- Texas Checkpoint — "You crossed the Texas state line." Earned 277,596 times.
- International Fugitive — "You escaped to Mexico!" Earned 50,499 times.
Driving is its own tracked skill. Getaway Driver is awarded for 100 career miles — cumulative, not one run — and only 9,279 players have it, 0.17% of the base. Most players never accumulate mileage because they get caught first. If the driving half appeals more, Driving Empire and its best cars breakdown cover a game built around it.
5. Read the Difficulty Curve From Real Completion Numbers
Because every checkpoint has a badge, the completion funnel is measurable. These are badge-award counts from the Roblox badges API on August 21, 2026 — distinct players who have ever earned each badge:
| Stage | Players | Survived from previous stage |
|---|---|---|
| Loaded the game (Welcome) | 5,399,900 | — |
| Reached Kansas | 1,342,087 | 24.9% |
| Reached Oklahoma | 546,921 | 40.8% |
| Reached Texas | 277,596 | 50.8% |
| Escaped to Mexico | 50,499 | 18.2% |
The hardest single step is the last one — only 18.2% of players who reach Texas cross into Mexico, so budget resources for the final leg. The middle is the easiest part: the two inner legs convert at 40.8% and 50.8%, better odds than leaving the starting area. End to end, 0.94% of players have escaped to Mexico, one in 107 — up from 0.73% on August 16, so the route is being learned.
One badge still resists analysis: Anger Management, awarded 1,110,013 times (20.6% of players), is the only badge shipped with no description. We do not know what triggers it and will not invent one.
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Earn Robux instead →6. Buy a Vehicle With Credz Instead of Robux
This is the correction that matters most for a new player. Credz — paid at the end of every run, win or lose, scaled by distance, wanted level, cash carried and borders crossed — buy the same vehicles the Robux passes sell, and only one car is Robux-only. RUNAWAYS carries 25 game passes, only six on sale when we read the API on August 21, 2026. Robux prices are from that read; Credz prices from the community wiki, edited August 20, 2026.
| Vehicle | Credz | Robux | Speed / Accel / Handling / Armor |
|---|---|---|---|
| Claptima | Free — the default car | — | 3 / 3 / 4 / 0 |
| Chunk Mover | 30,000 | 79 R$ | 4 / 3 / 3 / 1 |
| Charged | 150,000 | 299 R$ | 5 / 6 / 5 / 0 |
| T1000 | 400,000 | 799 R$ | 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 |
| Reventador | 1,000,000 | 999 R$ | 8 / 8 / 9 / 0 |
| Floppy Truck | Not sold for Credz | 1,499 R$ | 4 / 7 / 4 / 4 |
Reventador is the performance pick — 8 speed, 8 acceleration, 9 handling — but carries 0 armor, so it wins by never being touched. Floppy Truck is the opposite, and the only Robux-exclusive vehicle. Given the last leg ends 81.8% of the runs that reach Texas, armor is defensible — but nothing here is required, and everything except the Floppy Truck can be earned.
The sixth on-sale item is not a car. The Starter Pack at 249 R$ lists its contents in full: the Apex skin line, 10,000 CREDZ, two Glocks and two Bats — all four weapons single-run use, so you lose them on death unless you store them with the weapons vendor. A seventh pass, a vehicle called Mudrunner (5 / 4 / 4 / 3), was created August 20, 2026 and is not yet on sale.
7. Pick a Class and Know Exactly What It Changes
Classes set your starting loadout and apply flat percentage modifiers; Basic is the default and has neither. The other ten sell for Credz or Robux and are not game passes, which is why they never appear on the store page. Prices and modifiers from the community wiki, edited August 20, 2026:
| Class | Credz | Robux | What it changes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brawler | 25,000 | 89 R$ | +5% melee, −10% run; Knuckles |
| Scout | 35,000 | 99 R$ | +10% run, −5% melee, −20% health |
| Old CEO | 40,000 | 105 R$ | −5% run, −15% health; spawns holding four valuables |
| Smuggler | 45,000 | 119 R$ | No modifiers; small backpack + crowbar |
| Contractor | 70,000 | 159 R$ | +10% melee, +5% health, −5% run |
| Medic | 120,000 | 299 R$ | +20% health, −5% run; two medic bags |
| Gang Member | 170,000 | 399 R$ | +10% run, −5% health; MAC |
| Bounty Hunter | 300,000 | 599 R$ | +20% run, +10% melee |
| Breacher | 550,000 | 999 R$ | +40% melee; shotgun and C4 |
| Juggernaut | 850,000 | 1,399 R$ | +100% health, −20% run; minigun |
Read that against the funnel. The step that kills most runs is the last, where you are chased rather than looting, so the classes that matter are Juggernaut (double health for a fifth of your speed) and Scout (+10% run for −20% health). Medic is the balanced middle: +20% health for −5% speed. Old CEO is the outlier — worse at everything, but it spawns you holding four sellable valuables, so it is a money class.
Does RUNAWAYS Have Codes?
No. RUNAWAYS has no code redemption box as of August 21, 2026. The developer's description never mentions codes, the community wiki has no codes article, and every site publishing a "RUNAWAYS codes" page publishes an empty list. Full evidence, including the studio's official Discord, is on our RUNAWAYS codes page; the standard is on how we verify codes. For crime games that do pay out codes, Jailbreak codes, Mad City codes and Da Hood codes are live and verified.
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Frequently Asked Questions
You travel south through three state-line checkpoints the game tracks with badges — Kansas, then Oklahoma, then Texas — before crossing into Mexico. It is genuinely hard: of the 5,399,900 players who have earned the Welcome badge, only 50,499 have earned International Fugitive for escaping to Mexico, about 0.94% or one in 107, as of August 21, 2026.
Level 5 is the highest police level the game's own badge set tracks. FDI Most Wanted is awarded for reaching police level 5 and has been earned 115,083 times, while Hardened Criminal — escaping to Mexico while still at police level 5 — has been earned 14,760 times, as of August 21, 2026. Your wanted level also feeds your end-of-run Credz payout.
No. Every player starts with the free Claptima, and the Chunk Mover, Charged, T1000 and Reventador cost 30,000, 150,000, 400,000 and 1,000,000 Credz — which you earn from every run whether you escape or die. Only the Floppy Truck at 1,499 Robux has no Credz price, and all ten paid classes are sold for Credz too.
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Not affiliated with supercat games or Roblox Corporation. Statistics and badge counts were read from the Roblox API on August 21, 2026 and will drift; Credz prices, class modifiers and loot values come from the community wiki as edited August 20, 2026.