How Empires Work
100% positive of 22 Steam reviews
- Released
- 2026
- Steam Deck
- Not tested
- Platforms
- Steam
Made by Crow Cottage.
About the game
An incremental grand strategy game about building the machinery of empire. Tax, trade, conquer, and civilise subjects and foreigners alike. Automate it all into institutions that run themselves across centuries of history. Her Imperial Majesty expects results.
Tagged by players
- Grand Strategy
- Political Sim
- Historical
- Automation
- Alternate History
- Incremental
- Wargame
- Tutorial
- Strategy
- Capitalism
- Philosophical
- Economy
What players say
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