Airborne Empire is a one-of-a-kind Open World RPG City Builder. It challenges players to build, manage, and grow their own unique city in the skies. They traverse a vast and rich open world full of new dangers, exotic wonders, and many hidden treasures. They must manage lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city. Sky pirates can upend the city’s tranquility, and players must defend their inhabitants – and the kingdoms below! – from destructive attacks. Only clever and daring leaders can grow and protect their homes, seek out and destroy enemy strongholds, and finally reunite the peoples of this world.
While exploring a variety of biomes, players find themselves deep in an open-world full of rich characters, dialogue choices, side-quests, and lost marvels. By helping the peoples below, they gain the knowledge to develop new technologies – including new lift, propulsion, and morale buildings. They’ll also gain access to better tools for defense – and offense – against the pirate threat; defense towers, cannons, and attack planes can be researched, upgraded, and augmented with the tools found by combing the world and unraveling its mysteries. With full systems for building upgrades, fires, sickness, injuries, light, morale, and augmentation relics, there is plenty of treasure to discover!
If players can manage the challenges along this adventure, they’ll find themselves the leaders of a sprawling sky city, with enough prowess to defend against any incoming threats. It shall be the capital of a harmonious empire – the Airborne Empire of legend – reforged under their banners.
Game is constantly crashing, tutorial doesn't teach you jack shit and sends you a giant wave of pirates that kill you after 5 min, had high hopes for this game not what I was expecting.
warning for steam deck users: the game is currently unplayable on the steam deck - doesnt start and crashes immediatley
6/10. For Cultural, economic, and political reasons Airborne Empire (AE) is the best game it could be on Earth in 2025. I recommend without reservation, but If you are short on money, skip this game and grab Airborne Kingdom (AK), the predessesor to this game. It is far superior in all but mechanics. Empire's mechanics are far tighter and brings much needed depth. This ends my recommendation of Airborne Empire, what follows here is lamentation of its shortcomings compared to Airborne Kingdom. TL/DR - They removed the two best aspects of Kingdom, the tile groundwork, and the "World Map" in order (IMO) to save money in visual design. Their replacement is a dull pancake of an ocean. The most damning aspect of Empire is that, the entirely superfluous environmental aspect that no one looks at - the skybox at night- is worse in Empire than Kingdom. I think this should be the entire review, it says it all. The stars are not as beautiful.. ... Where to begin. AK was a certified sle...
Superb! I like it more than the first one, mostly because of the graphical enhancements and the bird creatures. They just launched a huge patch for it which basically is so comprehensive it is like an expansion pack. Proving they are full steam ahead on making this game as good as it can possibly be, There is a lot of gameplay in this!
Good little game. Cant wait to see it when its done.
So fuuuuuun!
Airborne Empire costs $20.99. Currently 30% off!
Minimum: Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 or AMD FX-8350 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB Storage: 2 GB available space Recommended: Recommended: OS: Windows 11 Processor: Intel Core i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 7 1800x Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060, 3 GB or AMD Radeon RX 580, 4 GB Storage: 2 GB available space
Airborne Empire is available on Windows PC.
Airborne Empire has 67% positive reviews from 12 players.
Airborne Empire was released on Jan 13, 2025.
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