Games like Escape The Mad Empire
If Escape The Mad Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Two Die, Darkest Dungeon® II and Those Who Rule — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Escape The Mad Empire: 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?
Players who liked Escape The Mad Empire also play
Steam players who put hours into Escape The Mad Empire also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Two Die
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Top pick for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Two Die is a turn-based, tactical, roguelike RPG where every action is determined by the roll of two six sided dice. Battle enemies to upgrade your character and discover what hides in your lost memories.
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Those Who Rule
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Third-strongest match for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Join three fresh recruits caught in a web of betrayal as war looms over the land. Lead your band of heroes through tactical turn-based battles, master unique abilities, and forge powerful gear to turn the tide of battle. Will you unravel the conspiracy driving the conflict—or be consumed by it?
Mortal Glory 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Ranked #4 for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Manage a team of traveling gladiators in this turn-based fantasy roguelike. Find the best recruits, discover powerful item combinations and come up with clever tactics on the battlefield. The tournament awaits those who desire MORTAL GLORY!
Defend the Rook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Ranked #5 for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
Heroes of Steel RPG
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Ranked #6 for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Ranked #7 for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Rogue Fable IV
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Ranked #8 for Escape The Mad Empire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Storm the lair of the immortal wizard Yendor in this fast paced, turn based, traditional rogue-like. The massive scope, deep mechanics and challenging gameplay that define the genre distilled into dense and highly varied one hour runs.
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Path of Exile
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
You are an Exile, struggling to survive on the dark continent of Wraeclast, as you fight to earn power that will allow you to exact your revenge against those who wronged you. Path of Exile is an online Action RPG set in a dark fantasy world. The game is completely free and will never be pay-to-win.
Darkest Dungeon®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Darkest Dungeon is a challenging gothic roguelike turn-based RPG about the psychological stresses of adventuring. Recruit, train, and lead a team of flawed heroes against unimaginable horrors, stress, disease, and the ever-encroaching dark. Can you keep your heroes together when all hope is lost?
Pillars of Eternity
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.
Enter the Gungeon
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Shares an intense mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
SC2VN - The eSports Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
SC2VN is a visual novel about the South Korean StarCraft 2 scene. You play as Mach, a foreign semi-pro trying to make it in eSports who soon learns that success in StarCraft takes more than in-game strategy.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker — Enhanced Plus Edition
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Pathfinder: Kingmaker - Enhanced Plus Edition is the first isometric party-based cRPG set in the Pathfinder fantasy universe. Enjoy a classic RPG experience inspired by games like Baldur's Gate, Fallout 1 and 2 and Arcanum. Explore and conquer the Stolen Lands and make them your kingdom!
Baldur's Gate 3
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Baldur’s Gate 3 is a story-rich, party-based RPG set in the universe of Dungeons & Dragons, where your choices shape a tale of fellowship and betrayal, survival and sacrifice, and the lure of absolute power.
守卫魔兽-Guardian of Warcraft
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Escape The Mad Empire cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
This is a summoning tower defense strategy game, with different abilities of monsters and traps, with different effects. the player will continue to upgrade while defending, Become stronger, and summoning more powerful monsters to resist the brave.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Escape The Mad Empire at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~63% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~48% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Escape The Mad Empire.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Sid Meier's Civilization® V
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Escape The Mad Empire.
Create, discover, and download new player-created maps, scenarios, interfaces, and more!
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~54% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~41% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~63% under Escape The Mad Empire on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Die in the Dungeon: Origins
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Escape The Mad Empire.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
The Last Sovereign
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Explore a world torn between armies of lust and purity in which everything is more complex than it seems, deciding the fate of nations through might, politics, and finance. Every decision matters in an intricate saga that tracks thousands of variables.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Darkest Dungeon® II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Darkest Dungeon II is a roguelike road trip of the damned. Form a party, equip your stagecoach, and set off across the decaying landscape on a last gasp quest to avert the apocalypse. The greatest dangers you face, however, may come from within...
Those Who Rule
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Join three fresh recruits caught in a web of betrayal as war looms over the land. Lead your band of heroes through tactical turn-based battles, master unique abilities, and forge powerful gear to turn the tide of battle. Will you unravel the conspiracy driving the conflict—or be consumed by it?
Defend the Rook
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
A roguelike tactics board combat combined with tower defense elements. Defeat the invading hordes to stay alive and save the land! Enjoy more tactics than a normal TD game, combined with the added challenge of building towers and fighting off waves of enemies!
Lost Eidolons: Veil of the Witch
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Escape The Mad Empire.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Strategy and Indie with Escape The Mad Empire.
Veil of the Witch is a roguelite strategy RPG with turn-based combat and branching progression. Set in the world of “Lost Eidolons,” build a nimble squad of five, pick your skills as you level, and adapt to each unique run. May the gods favor the bold and the wise.
Frequently asked about Escape The Mad Empire
- Does Escape The Mad Empire run on Steam Deck?
- Escape The Mad Empire is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Escape The Mad Empire cost?
- Escape The Mad Empire is listed on Steam at 13.49 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Escape The Mad Empire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Escape The Mad Empire are Two Die, Darkest Dungeon® II, Those Who Rule.
- Who developed Escape The Mad Empire?
- Escape The Mad Empire was developed by XperimentalZ Games.
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