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Escape The Mad Empire

Escape the Mad Empire is a party-based, rogue-like dungeon crawler with intense and deeply tactical combat. Overcome the challenges as a band of heroes, and preserve their lives and sanity by managing resources and growing your base. Can you Escape the Mad Empire?

All Reviews:

Positive (28) - 89% of the 28 user reviews for this game are positive.

Release Date:

Apr 22, 2025

Developer:

XperimentalZ Games

Publisher:

Paradox Arc

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French	✔	✔
German	✔	✔
Spanish - Spain	✔	✔
Polish	✔	✔
Russian	✔	✔
Simplified Chinese	✔	✔
Japanese	✔	✔

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What the developers have to say:

Why Early Access?

“Escape the Mad Empire is a game made to be challenged and overcome by the players who create imaginative and “broken” builds and strategies. We want to involve our community in the final stretch of development to help us achieve that experience, balance, and polish gameplay and various design ideas.”

Approximately how long will this game be in Early Access?

“We intend to stay in Early Access for about one year.”

How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version?

“The 1.0 version of Escape the Mad Empire will include more complexity, depth, and content.”

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“The bulk of the core gameplay experience is already in place for Early Access. That is the tutorial, mission structure, base building, tactical combat, etc. with at least 40 hours of gameplay in place already.”

Will the game be priced differently during and after Early Access?

“As Escape the Mad Empire grows and we introduce more content, we intend to increase the price to better reflect the scope of the game.”

How are you planning on involving the Community in your development process?

“This is the main reason why we're going through an EA phase. We'll interact with the players mostly on Steam community forums and Discord. We will regularly review and collect players' ideas and feedback about game mechanics, balancing, story, and gameplay structure, and find good ways to apply that to our game’s development.”

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About This Game

Escape an Empire Gone Mad
The Empire has fallen. Its survivors are trapped within an apocalypse of its own creation.

Can you assemble a band of heroes and escape the Mad Empire?

Gather your Heroes
Master the full potential of a varied party of heroes, choosing from a pool of 13 classes. Unlock their full potential via skills, loot and more.

Wield Insane Loot
In its madness, the Empire used crystals to create absurd and cursed items. In Escape the Mad Empire, each piece of loot is as meaningful as it is unhinged.

Strategize in the Blink of an Eye
Masterfully employ your heroes and their items in order to survive the apocalypse. Pause the action at any moment to instantly use spells, abilities and consumables, turning the tide of the battle in your favor!

Construct Mad Machines
Your hub is your sanctuary. There you can use the Crystals of Reality to build awesome machines, which allow you to recruit, upgrade or restore heroes, buy, craft, identify or enchant gear, and more. Relax as you theorycraft the ultimate party! .

Chart Your Way Through the Apocalypse
In each daring attempt at escape, you will chart your own path through the cavernous maze dug out by the Mad Empire. Take daring risks to reap big rewards, and face bosses at the end of each run. With each successful escape, your heroes are rewarded with resources used to develop your home base, and let you continue your journey through the Mad Empire’s apocalypse.

Will you Escape the Mad Empire?

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game displays cartoonish violence, mature topics like war, slavery, dystopian tyranny leading to the apocalypse and has references to alcohol consumption.