Escape The Mad Empire

Escape The Mad Empire

Steam Deck Playable

XperimentalZ Games · Party-Based RPG · Apr 22, 2025

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $12.59.

89%
Very Positive
421 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 33 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Story and characters: 25 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Interface: 4 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 200 sampled reviews

Based on 421 player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 200 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
50% of themes are praise50% are divided0% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
For each dollar you spend, you should request for an hours worth of gameplay.
33 of 200 sampled reviews raised it
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
When you spawn characters in, they will have different stats each time, so you can get a barbarian with 10 strength and 18 Dexterity or a barbarian with 18 dexterity and 10 strength.
25 of 200 sampled reviews raised it
Interface
Players who bring up Interface mostly praise it.
STEAMDECK - I've played this on my laptop with M&K and then my Steamdeck too - I've mapped the D-PAD to open Inventory / Map / Stats / Compare and use the trackpad to move etc and really it works brilliantly, you are sacrificing some keybinds but you can 100% play this in it's entirety on Steamdeck if you choose to.
4 of 200 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Gameplay33 reviews
Story and characters25 reviews
Interface4 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Combat38 reviews
97%
Difficulty13 reviews
100%
Graphics9 reviews
100%
Players complain% still recommend

No recurring complaints surfaced in this sample.

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway. One more theme was raised by fewer than 4 sampled reviews and is not shown.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $12.59 (−30%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

4 points recordedtoday · $12.59

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
89%
Very Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
53
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.

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