Play Escape the Mad Empire at Steam Next Fest! Demo Available Now

STOCKHOLM, February 24th, 2025 – Paradox Arc and XperimentalZ Games today released a new demo for their game Escape the Mad Empire, a party-based, roguelike dungeon crawler featuring intense tactical combat and base-building elements. The demo is available now on Steam during Steam Next Fest.

Watch the trailer here.

In Escape the Mad Empire, players need to master the full potential of a varied party of heroes, choosing from several classes, and fight their way through procedurally generated dungeons filled with dangerous foes and mad loot. To turn the battle in their favor and clutch victory, players can use the tactical pause feature to unleash complex strategies in the blink of an eye. In their home base, players can build awesome machines to recruit, upgrade, and restore heroes, as well as buy, craft, identify, and enchant gear!

The new demo features 9 hero classes, special event rooms with mini-bosses, a wide range of items, an improved onboarding experience, and multi-language localization.

Overview of demo features:

• 9 hero classes with a wide range of skills and abilities

• Hundreds of insane items and equipment

• A plethora of challenging foes

• A home base where to recruit, train and equip heroes

• A procedural map made of six biomes through which to make your escape

• The demo culminates in a challenging boss fight

• A vast array of tactical elements, like surface effects, cover, flanking, status effects, etc.

Download assets here.

For more information about the game and the demo, please visit: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2779630