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Escape The Mad Empire (2024)

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Review

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Escape The Mad Empire is an Isometric, Real Time With Pause, RTS Dungeon Crawler Roguelike RPG; yep.

A Push Pause Packing RTS Dungeon Crawler:
Push pause is present in Escape The Mad Empire: think like in the old, real Baldur’s Gate and its excellent sequel, so there is no risk of being overwhelmed, or having to get your actions per minute (APMs) up, like in StarCraft, as the push pause is your friend here; use it!

The Dungeons of the Mad Empire:
You explore the randomized Dungeons in Escape The Mad Empire in a party based, 4 man band, with 2 melee, a healer, and a mage.
You start in a randomized treasure room; with 6 chests, and 1 big, fancy chest: loot em all!
The big, fancy chest has an Empire Item in it, very powerful items, but they are cursed; beware!
Each of your characters has their own equipment, and both melee dual wielding, and mages wearing armor and casting spells without a problem is a thing here; so there are more options in terms of gearing and equipment than in other, more rigid and restrictive systems.

After gearing up, your party enters into the dungeon, so group up, and slaughter monsters, lvl up, and find treasures; so good so far.
Characters automatically break pots; a good quality of life feature, as it would be super tedious having to click and loot each one.
Don’t forget to wave your mouse over the gold to loot it; not kidding, that is how you loot gold here.

Traps are present in the dungeons, but in Escape The Mad Empire, all your adventurers are trained dungeon delvers, so all the classes can disarm traps; very nice, as it means you don’t have to have a rogue!
There are color coded locked doors; like old school Doom, so go find those keys to get in to beat down the boss!

There are campfires to rest at to heal, recover spent spells and abilities, but they make you hungry and thirsty, so there is a cost to taking a breather.

There are event rooms too; like a mysterious, purple cauldron that makes a character make a Con test, or a spellbook with an Int test; fun.

After clearing a lvl; your party heals to full, and you get another big chest with another artifact; and you keep your character lvls earned in dungeon 1.
Onward to lvl 2!

Note: This is an Early look at Escape The Mad Empire so any bugs or other oddness is not representative of the final product.
Still, Escape The Mad Empire is an interesting Isometric, Real Time With Pause, RTS Dungeon Crawler Roguelike RPG, and is easily well worth a wishlist and a watch.
Watch?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823390/Escape_The_Mad_Empire/
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