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Escape The Mad Empire

XperimentalZ Games · 2025-04-22

Steam

IndieRPGStrategyEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Apr 22, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

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?

Escape The Mad Empire is an Indie, RPG, Strategy and Early Access game released in 2025, priced at $17.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 426 reviews) and an owner estimate of 50,000 .. 100,000.— census verdict as of 2026-09-20

4
playing now
89%
positive of 426 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$17.99
steam price (US)

4 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 10:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 4 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 16 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 7% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (118 reviews).
  • · Top 17% of 50,336 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-09-01

Estimated sales: 8.5k–19k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 426 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $11.69 at Steam (2026-09-14)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $17.99 · on sale 7 of 14 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
10810820252026Week of 2025-04-22: 108 positiveWeek of 2025-04-22: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-29: 28 positiveWeek of 2025-04-29: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-06: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-05-06: 8 negativeWeek of 2025-05-13: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-05-13: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-20: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-27: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-03: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-17: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-08: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-15: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-07-22: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-07-29: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-12: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-08-19: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-26: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-26: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-02: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-09-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-09: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-30: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-07: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-21: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-04: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-18: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-25: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-09: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-16: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-12-23: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-30: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-06: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-13: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-20: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-01-27: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-17: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-02-24: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-24: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-03: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-03: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-10: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-17: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-31: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-05: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-12: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-19: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-26: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-09: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-16: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-07-07: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-11: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-18: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2102026-09-15 19:00 — 6 players2026-09-17 03:00 — 10 players2026-09-18 11:00 — 15 players2026-09-19 18:00 — 16 players2026-09-21 02:00 — 20 players2026-09-22 10:00 — 10 players2026-09-23 17:00 — 10 players2026-09-25 01:00 — 6 players2026-09-26 08:00 — 6 players2026-09-27 16:00 — 5 players2026-09-28 23:00 — 5 players2026-09-30 07:00 — 3 players2026-10-01 14:00 — 8 players2026-10-02 22:00 — 2 players2026-10-04 06:00 — 6 players2026-10-05 13:00 — 7 players2026-10-06 21:00 — 4 players2026-10-08 04:00 — 5 players2026-10-09 12:00 — 9 players2026-10-10 19:00 — 8 players2026-10-12 03:00 — 8 players2026-10-13 11:00 — 5 players2026-10-14 18:00 — 3 players2026-10-15 10:00 — 4 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
2033Apr 2025Aug 2026Apr 2025 — avg 203 · peak 300May 2025 — avg 73 · peak 231Jun 2025 — avg 24 · peak 47Jul 2025 — avg 25 · peak 47Aug 2025 — avg 13 · peak 32Sep 2025 — avg 18 · peak 45Oct 2025 — avg 10 · peak 23Nov 2025 — avg 20 · peak 107Dec 2025 — avg 35 · peak 105Jan 2026 — avg 21 · peak 56Feb 2026 — avg 11 · peak 28Mar 2026 — avg 7 · peak 24Apr 2026 — avg 3 · peak 10May 2026 — avg 11 · peak 25Jun 2026 — avg 9 · peak 32Jul 2026 — avg 8 · peak 21Aug 2026 — avg 6 · peak 16
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$17.99$12.592025-04-222026-08-132025-04-22 — best price $16.192025-05-06 — best price $17.992025-06-26 — best price $14.392025-07-10 — best price $17.992025-07-17 — best price $14.392025-07-28 — best price $17.992025-09-29 — best price $14.392025-10-06 — best price $17.992025-11-27 — best price $13.492025-12-11 — best price $17.992025-12-18 — best price $13.492026-01-05 — best price $17.992026-02-16 — best price $13.492026-03-02 — best price $17.992026-03-19 — best price $13.492026-03-26 — best price $17.992026-05-01 — best price $13.492026-05-15 — best price $17.992026-06-15 — best price $12.592026-07-09 — best price $17.992026-07-30 — best price $12.592026-08-13 — best price $17.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

53
achievements tracked
41%
earned "Corner Stone"
7.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam CloudFamily Sharing

8 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1310%53

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

CRPGSurvivalDifficultIsometricManagementRogue-likeRogue-litePerma DeathEarly AccessSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Recent updates

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