Oriental Empires

Shining Pixel Studios / Sep 14, 2017 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy

Singleplayer
Multiplayer
Co-op

windows
Steam Deck Playable

7 playing now

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

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What's new

Update 22 December 2021

2021-12-22

Happy Christmas everybody. This update includes improvements to the AI, opening the soldiers.xml file for modding and a few bug fixes and minor improvements. • Opened soldier.sxml file for modding. Included example in Example Mod. • Tweaks to AI to improve unit diversity, and handle allocation of existing units more flexibly. [*}Fixed bug where sometimes AI would surround city but not attack. Also should be fewer leader only stacks running around. • Fixed unit replenishment indicator not showing. • Fixed bug with some 3K events. • Overlord stacks can now move through vassal stacks even in vassal's territory.

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What players say

Mostly Positive

75% positive, 928 reviews

Not recommended121 hrs played

After 100+ hours and roughly 40% of the achievements, here’s where I landed. The gameplay is very slow, and learning the mechanics just isn’t worth the time investment. There’s a lot I genuinely like: the constant pressure of managing growth, the ability to zoom in and out depending on what you’re dealing with, and the fact that there are multiple paths to victory. The ideas are solid, and the scope is...

35 found this helpful, 2025-12-20

Recommended33 hrs played

Frequently goes on 75-80% sales, and has started showing up in bundles, and on fanatical for something like a bux. So if you can get the basegame and the 2 DLCs for 4-5 bux - Then yes it's worth it, just get ready for constant AI city spam and the usual 4x game issues.

4 found this helpful, 2026-01-23

Recommended115 hrs played

This game should get an Oriental Empires 2. We want more DLCs. This is by far one of the newest and freshest additions to strategy games. The diplomatic system lets you offer money, exchange prisoners, settlements, armies, and more. You have to expand and grow your settlements while keeping the population happy. The game is incredibly addictive, yet still feels realistic. It belongs among the greats like Age of...

3 found this helpful, 2026-09-03