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Escape from Ever After

Fight against capitalism in this satirical adventure RPG! When a greedy megacorp from the real world starts taking over fairytales for their cheap labor, a newly-hired storybook hero must climb the corporate ladder, rally together other disgruntled employees, and fight back!

Released Jan 23, 2026Overwhelmingly Positive · 96% of 1.5KPEGI 3
Steam Deck VerifiedAdventureIndieRPGStory RichTurn-Based TacticsFunny
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Escape from Ever After
Developer: Sleepy Castle Studio
Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
Escape from Ever After
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About Escape from Ever After

Escape from Ever After is an adventure RPG inspired by the classic Paper Mario games, where fairytale and storybook characters must fight back against capitalism!

Escape from Ever After

When Flynt Buckler, a classic fairytale adventurer, storms the castle of his evil dragon arch-nemesis Tinder, he finds the once intimidating fortress has been converted into… corporate offices? The villainous dragon is nowhere to be found and her castle is full of mindless coffee-sipping, report-filing drones. What happened?

It turns out that storybooks are an untapped market ripe with valuable resources, cheap labor, and profit to be had—so naturally, real-world conglomerate Ever After Inc.™ found a way to intervene! With Tinder’s Castle as their new corporate headquarters, Ever After Inc. is hellbent on taking over every storybook they can. With no choice but to get a job, Flynt Buckler must team up with his former nemesis Tinder in order to climb the corporate ladder and take down Ever After Inc. from the inside!

Escape from Ever After

Dive into storybook worlds packed to the brim with colorful characters, captivating locales, and electrifying secrets! One moment you’ll be fleeing Lovecraftian terrors while solving a noir murder mystery, and the next you’ll be up against villainous versions of The Three Little Pigs as they try to bulldoze a fairytale forest for their real estate developments. The rules are always changing!

Escape from Ever After

Face off against hordes of wacky enemies in snappy turn-based gameplay! Perfectly-timed action commands allow Flynt to finish off his foes with style, and an assortment of items, badges, and partners ensure there’s always a trick up his sleeve.

Escape from Ever After

  • Fight in a fun, fast-paced battle system that rewards experimentation and strategy

  • Build and customize your party—every character has unique skills that can be equipped and upgraded throughout your journey

  • Engage in office banter, help your storybook coworkers, and decorate your office as you climb the corporate ladder

  • Explore vast storybook worlds brimming with sidequests, treasures, and secrets

  • Stories within stories: experience a charming and lively narrative where the rules are constantly changing

  • A jazzy, big-band soundtrack that keeps the energy pumping throughout

Story

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When Flynt Buckler, a classic fairytale adventurer, storms the castle of his evil dragon arch-nemesis Tinder, he finds the once intimidating fortress has been converted into… corporate offices? The villainous dragon is nowhere to be found and her castle is full of mindless coffee-sipping, report-filing drones. What happened? It turns out that storybooks are an untapped market ripe with valuable resources, cheap labor, and profit to be had—so naturally, real-world conglomerate Ever After Inc. found a way to intervene! With Tinder’s Castle as their new corporate headquarters, Ever After Inc. is hellbent on taking over every storybook they can. With no choice but to get a job, Flynt Buckler must team up with his former nemesis Tinder in order to climb the corporate ladder and take down Ever After Inc. from the inside!

Game details

Developers
Sleepy Castle Studio, Wing-It! Creative
Publishers
HypeTrain Digital
Release date
Jan 23, 2026
Genres
Adventure, Indie, RPG, Story Rich, Turn-Based Tactics, Funny, Singleplayer, Emotional, 2D, Comedy, Fantasy, Soundtrack, Music, Mystery, Action RPG, Dark, Party-Based RPG, Retro, JRPG, Stylized, Tactical RPG
Modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
28 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Themes
Action, Fantasy, Comedy
Camera
Third person
Engine
Unreal Engine 4

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedNot supportedSupported
JapaneseSupportedNot supportedSupported
Portuguese (Brazil)SupportedNot supportedSupported
RussianSupportedNot supportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedNot supportedSupported
Spanish (Latin America)SupportedNot supportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: 3.0 GHz processor
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM

Recommended

  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Ratings

Steam reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

96% of 1.5K

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Metacritic

82

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IGDB critics

86

1 critic score

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Age rating

PEGI 3

About PEGI ratings

Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Verified

  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Shows Steam Deck button icons
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • External controllers don't work for the main player
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Verified

ProtonDB: Platinum · 14 reports See reports

DLC & editions

Also on Steam

  • Escape from Ever After - Supporter Pack
  • Escape from Ever After Soundtrack
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Release date: Jan 23, 2026

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