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Control a city or tribe from the dawn of Chinese history, and turn it into a great empire.
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About Oriental Empires
About this game
Step into the world of the ancient Orient. Control a city or tribe from the dawn of Chinese history, and turn it into a great empire. Develop your land, create great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic wars. Advance your technology, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s great civilizations. All the action takes place on one spectacular game map that brings to life the mountains, forests, plains and deserts of China. Zoom in close to review your troops and see your peasants toiling, or zoom out for a strategic overview. Plan your battles, end your turn, and then watch as your armies obey your orders, with hundreds of soldiers battling right on the game map.
FEATURES
- Start out as a single nation or tribe, starting from humble beginnings with a single settlement and expand your empire and develop your culture with the aim of becoming the universally recognized Son of Heaven and ruler of the world.
- Persuade the other factions to recognize you as such by either military force or by diplomatic persuasion.
- Play as one of 16 different factions each with their own special bonuses or penalties.
- Vast beautifully rendered map featuring an attractive and authentic depiction of the landscape of China and Mongolia.
- Large-scale battles with hundreds or thousands of soldiers depicted in detail right on the game map. Watch skilled armies and reinforcements go to battle, according to the battle orders and formations set by the player.
- Fully animated 3D models, with variations in face and clothing for each model, including infantry, cavalry, chariot and artillery units, as well as naval forces.
- Long seamless zoom range lets you step right into the game world or zoom out for a strategic overview.
- Develop your settlements by constructing buildings and developing the landscape around them, build markets and ports to enable trade by land and water.
- Elaborate research tree including technology as well as cultural, philosophical and religious developments.
- Many other elements will determine the outcome of you quest for dominance such as Leaders, Sieges, Unrest and Rebellion, and Authority and Culture ratings.
- As Emperor, set edicts, laws and decrees to balance power and move into a glorious new Era, with new technologies and military units that change the game!
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- September 20, 2016
- Developer:
- Shining Pixel Studios
- Publisher:
- Iceberg Interactive
- Rating:
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Franchise:
- Oriental Empires
- Link:
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 64 bit (32 bit NOT supported)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3230M @ 2.60GHz or equivalent AMD processor and above
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB DX 9 Compliant videocard with pixel shader 3,0
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
- Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1024 x 768
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7,8,10 - 64 bit (32 bit NOT supported)
- Processor: Intel i5 3.2 GHz or equivalent AMD processor and above
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB DX 9 Compliant videocard with pixel shader 3,0
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
- Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1024 x 768
Oriental Empires User Reviews
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This game is kind of addicting, it is a somewhat simplified strategy game along the lines of RoTTK.
The Good
It is pretty easy to pick up on and learn. You will probably restart your game a few times while learning so you can try a new strategy as the game quickly begins to make more sense.
Crazy replay-ability ... I have often started a new game just because I ran into an NPC and wanted to go play his faction.
The Bad
Some enemies like bandits and rebels simply steal your entire army units ... it is just a bit overpowered, but there are certain playable factions that are immune to this and other factions that will steal these same units from NPCs.
My biggest complaint is that this is a game based on Chinese history (or a fantasy infused version) in which you are supposed to conquer/unite all of China; however, it is not possible to do so. The game mechanics just dont really allow it. You can get a conquest victory, but unlike traditional RoTTK style games you can never recruit enough generals and governors to complete the conquest. Game mechanics work against you, like having an "authority" stat that limits the number of cities you can control and simply not being able to recruit/control enough generals.
This game would benefit greatly if it were to add it a few QoL features like dedicated governors (non combat "generals" assigned to manage a city) and simply having more slots to recruit generals.
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! Introduction !
At the first glance Oriental Empires might just seem as a Civilization clone, but it is much more than that, much, much more. Oriental Empires is a turn based 4-X strategy game, it was developed by “Shining Pixel” studios and published by Iceberg interactive and was released on September 2017. This game is what you would get if Civilization had baby with Total War.
Oriental Empires is set is medieval China, your aim is to grow in authority and power to ultimately rise-up as the emperor of the world.
The atmosphere in this game does a good job of sending you into the dawn of Chinese history, you start as one of the 24 small factions (of which only 5 are available at beginning) all of whom has different skill sets and abilities.
! Gameplay !
You will come across other factions while expanding your nation, sometimes you might be able to take them with brute force, but other times you might need to take more of a diplomatic approach while tackling with the more powerful nations. Authority and happiness of citizens is something that needs to be kept in balance as excess of either of those might lead to problems in your nation.
Unlike in Total war games, you have to pre-plan all of your attacks, the AI takes over once the attack begins. The progression and the management is quite intricate as it needs delicate balancing of various different parts of your nation, and maintaining balance between authority and happiness of your citizens is really important, even if one of the parts fail, the entire nation would be affected by it.
Since the release of this game two more DLC’s have come out, and both of them add to the experience, in addition to new content these DLC’s also provide a few new gameplay elements, and better map design which makes the games overall feel even better.
Rating: 4.2/5 (4 stars)
Full Review: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/UnitedCritics/discussions/0/2963890812396182780/
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Frequently Asked Questions
Available DLCs for Oriental Empires include Genghis and Three Kingdoms
According to PEGI, Oriental Empires is suitable for players aged 16 and above.
Yes, Oriental Empires is not fully Steam Deck Verified but the publisher says it is "Playable" on Steam Deck. Valve’s testing indicates that Oriental Empires is Playable on Steam Deck. This game is functional on Steam Deck, but might require extra effort to interact with or configure.
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
- Some functionality is not accessible when using the default controller configuration, requiring use of the touchscreen or virtual keyboard, or a community configuration
- This game sometimes shows mouse, keyboard, or non-Steam-Deck controller icons
- Entering some text requires manually invoking the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be difficult to read
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 64 bit (32 bit NOT supported)
- Processor: Intel Core i5-3230M @ 2.60GHz or equivalent AMD processor and above
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256 MB DX 9 Compliant videocard with pixel shader 3,0
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
- Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1024 x 768
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 7,8,10 - 64 bit (32 bit NOT supported)
- Processor: Intel i5 3.2 GHz or equivalent AMD processor and above
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 512 MB DX 9 Compliant videocard with pixel shader 3,0
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX 9 Compatible Audio
- Additional Notes: Minimum Resolution: 1024 x 768
Oriental Empires was released on September 20, 2016
Oriental Empires is published by Iceberg Interactive
Oriental Empires was developed by Shining Pixel Studios
Fanatical users tagged Oriental Empires as Strategy, Simulation, 4X, and Sandbox
Fanatical users tagged Oriental Empires as Historical, Military, War, and Tactical
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