Sleepy Castle Studio

Escape from Ever After

When a greedy megacorp with the power to enter storybooks takes over Flynt Buckler’s fairytale world, he must get a job to sabotage them from within! Climb the corporate ladder, fight in stylish, snappy combat, and dive into storybook worlds from Lovecraft to sci-fi in this genre-bending RPG!

Released: 23 January 2026
Developer: Sleepy Castle Studio
Publisher: HypeTrain Digital
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Perspective: Third person
Age rating: PEGI 3 · ESRB E
Controller: Full controller support
Metacritic: 82/100
Steam recommendations: 1,482
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S · PC (Microsoft Windows) · PlayStation 5 · Nintendo Switch
Genres: Role-playing (RPG) · Adventure · Indie
Also known as: Flynt Buckler Wakes the Sleepy Castle

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Player rating: 86
Critic rating: 1
Ratings counted: 97%
Steam reviews: 28
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Escape from Ever After

The story

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!

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