Empire Architect

So at first I gave a negative review, and after talking to the developer I learned why I was having the issues I was. So this game isn't your typical "just build and yolo, it'll work." You have to play around and learn how buildings service areas, and how to efficiently build so that your workers aren't over extending and bottleneckings services. You also need to be aware of what your citizens want, especially when it comes to the level of homes they want. I'd give this game a 9/10 until I can see a more finish product. To go over my negative review: Citizens always starving, but large stocks of food: You need to better place your buildings. If you go to the discussion forum there is a guide on my post "starving" from the developer. This will fix your problem. People don't move in to level 2 homes: You cannot force them in to level 2 homes, they have to desire it first. This simulates a class structure. Another one is health services, this is area based, and as long as they ha...

I'm not impressed. I'm really not impressed. This game is essentially a rather sub-par rehash of the old Impressions city builders, and borrows so much from Caesar III that it might as well be the same game. This isn't entirely bad - Caesar 3 was a good game. But there isn't much progress here. Oddly, a lot of the quality-of-life measures that made it into the later Impressions games, such as Zeus and Pharaoh, simply are not here. If you have fifteen bucks to spend, you're better off buying one of the games mentioned above (Zeus I would particularly recommend) instead of this.

I would only recommend Empire Architect if you want to tickle that 1999 city-builder nolstagia. If your standards for city-building games have evolved in the last two decades, you should look elsewhere. - Clunky user interface - Frustrating combat - Shallow gameplay

Do you miss games like Caesar? Would you like to play a more relaxing RTS? Then this game is for you. [b]Empire Architect[/b] is a promising game with a lot of depth, with some features inspired by the grand strategy genre, and an always evolving gameplay, with a lot of updates and bugfixes made by a developer who really cares for his creation and the community. At the moment there are two modes available: custom game, which is a skirmish mode in heart, with four difficulty levels and procedurally generated maps; and campaign, which already has enough levels to teach you how to play and show you some strategies. Even if the game is not on Early Access anymore, more content is still beign added, so there's more to come. The gameplay is based on keep your population happy by providing food, education, jobs, entertainment, religion and security, while you try to defeat your opponents with your army. Don’t worry, Empire Architect is a game where your APM (actions per minute) won't mat...

same as caesar, pharao, ... nothing new, same missions as on other games.... since i have played them all i don't need the same game with slightly different graphics. game principle is getting a tad dated.

Empire Architect is a game I have waited, especailly when the Caesar series was no longer available. Generally Architect contains elements that similar to the Caesar's. If you have played Caesar before then you will know how to run this game. What I wanted most would be the speed of the game. It could run faster and I don't want to spent too much time in waiting construction to complete. Still, I am looking forward too see any update on this game.

I don't write lengthy reviews that are pleasing to the eye like some users, but after a few hours of this game I kept running into sloppy problems that mainly had to do with the interface. No clear guidance on how to make these people happier, spamming buildings around the area that would make no since in a city in any other game... It was just not fun to play. The icing on the cake was when I went to save and the game just crashed all together and I lost my save file.

This is a classic style city-building game (a la the old Sierra city building series, like Caesar, Pharaoh, Zeus, Children of the Nile and such). It's close to Caesar III not only in thematics and looks, but also in gameplay. The gameplay also reminds me quite a bit of Grand Ages: Rome (which is, itself, heavily inspired by Caesar). So far, my only real complaint is that I would love to have more information on the UI, like the ratio at which each building produces each resource and such. Currently it takes a bit of testing to get used to how many of each building you need to supply a production chain, or to keep your population well fed, etc. Kinda like the Tropico series. Still, certainly enjoying my time with the game so far. The developer seems to be quite active, so I'm looking forward to things improving further.

It's not a bad game, I had some fun with it, but it feels really unfinished even for an early access, and I doubt it will get much better. Almost no sounds, poor animations, very generic artistic direction, basic UI, terrible combat system...

Great game, plays a lot like Pharaoh & Ceasar 3, had mostly positive experience with it, yet there's a lot of stuff that still needs to be tweaked. Kudos to developer! and keep up the good work