Escape The Mad Empire News

We recently did an AMA on reddit, you can see it here. I'm sure Patrick from the dev team would love to answer more questions if they arise.

Happy dungeon crawling!

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[h2]Welcome back to the bone zone[/h2]

Today we're talking about the Puppet Master. Unfortunately he does not use actual puppets as attacks, but we can't all get what we want in this world. Also, I don't think we have enough of a good standing with that green frog guy anyway.

The Puppet Master uses minions and spells to deliver powerful attacks and change the pace of your encounters. Let's take a look at some of my favorite skills.

[h3]Summons[/h3]


We all love skeletons, don't we folks? Well so does The Puppet Master as well. They can summon three types of skeletons with their summon skills and also use the skeletons with other skills such as;

[h3]Minion Bomb[/h3]

We all love skeletons, don't we folks? But you know what I like more? Explosions! Effective when your summons are close to die, but be careful. This attack has AoE damage to your teammates.
[h3]Shapeshift[/h3]

Not only can they spawn summons, the Puppet Master can also transform into creatures with the shapeshift spell. Lasting for a good 18 seconds making it easy to tank damage or maybe just shapeshift into a bug. It's all up to you!

[h3]Domination[/h3]

Oh, you don't want to shapeshift but still want to take control over a minion? How about you try domination - this skill lets you take permanent control over a minion until it dies.

[h3]????[/h3]
what the heck is that


// bonezone out

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In celebration of Steam Next Fest we're updating the free demo for the game!

Now including: Even more LOOT, dungeons and MORE!!!

(Epilepsy warning on trailer!)
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Thank you to everyone who has followed us so far,
Soon you'll get a great game where you can spar.

Thanks to our players for all the great feedback,
You always have a way of making us take a step back.

A.M.I will be with you on your journey into the dark,
Don't be afraid to use a potion just for the lark.

Dungeons you will adventure and loot you will get,
Please don't forget to have go outside and stretch.

With the cultist on our side we can charm any beast,
On my team I also have a cool battle priest.

Don't forget the randomizer in the main base,
Use it to get new weapons, like a mace.

Thank you for your patience with our game,
We're working hard so we release without shame.

Early Access it will become and not predatory,
We hope you will enjoy it like a love story.

Happy valentines day from XperimentalZGames!

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[h2]Welcome back, travelers![/h2]
In this post we're going to be talking about our favorite bald character, the Cultist.


Now, I know we all are a bit afraid of bald people - but don't be. He's quite nice once you get to know him. Unless you're an enemy, am I right? Hahaa... ha... anyway...

Cultist is a bit of a glass cannon / support character. Although he holds a lot of power he still thrives while working with a team. Some of this you will realise once you get ahold of him in the game - so we won't spoil too much here...

Soo... today we thought we would focus on a two skills exclusive to the Cultist.



First - we have Choking Darkness.
This is a very powerful ability as it applies blindness & silence on enemies in an AoE radius!
However, it does not target friendly characters - making it amazing against a group of characters that are about to use an ability or hit a big hit on your teammates.



After letting my Guardian take the heat with a taunt, we go in with a Choking darkness.


Here in this fight we use another exclusive to the Cultist - Demonic Possession. It applies Charm ːUDG_Heartː, Rage and 75% Attack speed on the target.



As you can see here, we used it on the Papa Mush to make it help us during the fight. That Cultist sure is charming, aye?

This and more can be expected when playing with the cultist!

Just don't ask him where he got that name from... he won't stop talking about how "it's so easy to just recruit a few friends, and once they do - you get a bigger payout! it's foolproof!"

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