Escape The Mad Empire
by XperimentalZ Games · 22 Apr, 2025
16 downloads
About the 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?
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
- Trying to improve pets movement
This update introduces new ways to mitigate instability and thirst mechanics, new items and a training dummy to test your DPS!
\ Altar of the hero (selected character has 50% less instability and can equip items attuned to other characters)
\ New magic offhand items: Magic Orb (resistance to magic), Magic Book (10% proc damage bonus), Magic Lantern (random stat bonus), Demonic Skull (chance to re-imburse skill charge on cast), Rune Stone (random elemental damage bonus), Floating Eyeball (crit chance bonus)
\ New consumable (stackable bandages which stop bleeding and heal a little, minor potion/scroll which clears statuses, minor potion/scroll of invisibility)
\ Adding calibration options for instability in the difficulty system
\ Adding calibration options for thirst in the difficulty system
\ Added a training dummy in the HUB on which you can test your DPS
\ Tracking inconsistencies of how bonuses apply on items. Speed bonus no longer applies to both weapons in dual wield, and changed the description of other bonuses which gave a false impression of how bonuses were applied.
\ Trying to come-up with a better balance between dual weapon builds, 2-H builds, offhand + main weapon builds, procs vs stats vs skills builds, etc. 2-H melee weapons had their attack speed enhanced. Offhand melee weapons no longer have a 20% attack speed malus. The shield competence now gives a bonus instead of a malus when a shield is used without the competence.
\ Now supporting dual wand wielding
\ It is now possible to cancel the enchanting process on the Enchanting Device in the HUB (at the cost of losing the resource)
\ Plenty of bug fixes or QoL
Cheers!
- \ Resolved an issue where non permanent pets could reduce the permanent pets cap
- \ Restored insurances for dead characters through a victory, which had been disabled by mistake a while back
Hello everyone! As we cruise toward a major end-game content update, we'll be releasing smaller content updates, which address recurrent player concerns and add bits of content originally planned for that major update.
\[Content Update 0.20.0.14216]
⦁ \ Dungeon party cap is raised from 21 to 35 (full party), using a new Monster Scaling mechanic to reduce monsters group size.
⦁ \ 2 more character slots
⦁ \ 2 more vault slots
⦁ \ Dungeon Enchanting Event (free item upgrade 3 choices)
⦁ \ Dungeon Holo-Chest Event (3 items choices)
⦁ \ Dungeon Gems Vendor Event
⦁ \ Some resource icons polish
⦁ \ Overlord now casts Mass Silence instead of a permanent Aura
⦁ \ Vampire can no longer liberate pets
⦁ \ Dominate is capped to 1 per character (2 for puppet master)
⦁ \ Revamped the Bosses difficulty curve to better match level 35 party
⦁ \ 4/2 item sets can now give the bonus twice
⦁ \ Gems can now be stacked
⦁ \ Long character animations no longer delay actual attack speed
⦁ \ Buffs, Shield, Heals should not resist anymore
⦁ \ Can pick up coins/keys/resources from a chest even if main inventory is full
⦁ \ Monsters could occasionally target hidden characters
⦁ \ Angry Clones were too angry ⦁ \ Cannot Camp in Combat anymore
⦁ \ Rare cases where a Blue Key would not appear
⦁ \ Certain damage bonuses not applying to auto-attacks
⦁ \ Rockspit Worm is now immune to push
⦁ \ Infinite HP exploit ⦁ \ Issue with Resurrection Scroll
⦁ \ Prison Event Issue with jail
⦁ \ Reward Screen coin animation with large coin quantities
⦁ \ Incorrect Injury tooltip
⦁ \ Multiple Localization issues
Please visit us on Discord to have an head start on news or discuss the game!
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\ rage going Idle sometimes
\ Scrolls sometimes vanishing when transferring between full inventories
\ Identificator does not reset timer when repositioning items
\ character sheet button
\ Enemy's Non-Verbal skills were incorrectly silenced
\ loading screen crash
\ Issue with Ghosts behavior
We come to you today with a NEW major content update!
We wanted to diversify the gameplay experience with more various types of monsters & biomes, which is what we'll be bringing you today!
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The update includes:
4 new biomes:
⦁ Forest
⦁ Haunted Forest
⦁ Mushrooms
⦁ Ice Caverns
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41588788/4428c9475791863d76d8b9275c89e3094c15f4ac.pngMushroom biome
31 New Monsters, which will be associated to specific biome:
⦁ Crypts: Grave Diggers
⦁ Prison: Jail Keepers & Bones Collectors
⦁ Barracks: 13 various types of Empire Soldiers
⦁ Caverns: Rockspit Worms and Stun Spiders
⦁ Ice Caverns: Yetis
⦁ Labs: Mad Scientists
⦁ Mushrooms: Small, Medium and Large Mushroom creatures
⦁ Mines: Rock Golems
⦁ Haunted Forest: Empty Spirits & Scary Ghosts
⦁ Fortress: Iron Golems
⦁ Forest: Rootwardens & Venom Spiders
{STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/41588788/3f315dcb961ba02363bb60e411ea584b5e7594ef.pngIce cavern biomeWe've also done some other minor fixes & balancing:
⦁ Disabled attuning for uncommon and rare items
⦁ It’s now possible to move HUB devices around
⦁ Shop content can now be rerolled for a price
⦁ Characters in Soul Extractor can now be rerolled for a price
⦁ LOTS of bug fixes
Hopefully this will satiate your appetite for adventure for a while.
Oh, and the update is LIVE RIGHT NOW!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823390/Escape_The_Mad_Empire/
- Magic items which transform single attacks into AOE will only affect their equipped hand now
- Slightly nerfed item of Mad Swings (-20% attack speed)
- Total Mayhem now applies Flurry on self instead of target, as intended
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