Deity Empires
Released Sep 2018
Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world.
86% positive · 339 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Where to buy
Steam $24.99
Can't confirm — worth a look
We couldn't confirm these stores carry this game.
Green Man Gaming Steam key Search IndieGala Steam key Search Prices in USD, as listed by each store.
Buying through an affiliate store helps support the site
Evaluation
Deity Empires launched on September 25, 2018 and received a sustained series of feature-rich updates through its post-launch period. The developer published regular updates bundling months of beta improvements into live builds, with notable releases in March 2019 (Update 1.1.36), May 2019 (Update 1.1.44), June 2019 (Update 1.1.49), and March 2020 (Update 1.1.60). That March 2020 update — described as moving seven months of beta work into the live build — was the most substantial, adding new unit types, spells, abilities, and hundreds of quality-of-life improvements. It is also the last developer communication on record. No updates, announcements, roadmaps, or developer posts have appeared since March 31, 2020. There are no unreleased DLC entries on the store, no announced future content, and no developer statements about ongoing or planned development. The game has no live-service structure. Given that the update history shows a clear pattern of periodic releases followed by complete silence since March 2020 — now over six years ago — the game appears to have concluded its active development cycle with that final update.
Evidence
Update 1.1.60 published, described as moving seven months of beta updates into the live build, adding new units, spells, abilities, and hundreds of quality-of-life enhancements. This is the last developer communication on record.
Update 1.1.49 published with new spells, units, magic gems system, and various bug fixes and AI improvements.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
BaileyHausdorff Systems
Achievements
37
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player
About this game
Deity Empires is a 4X, turn-based strategy game with a powerful “just one more turn” feel! Enter an intricate fantasy world as one of many deities posed to become ruler of the world. On a backdrop of classic 2D graphics, choose from one of the many playable races, and compete with rival deities as you explore the world. Extract food, natural resources, and valuable minerals from the land, and increase your power as you defeat wild monster lairs and build cities to expand your empire. Defeat rival deity armies in tactical battles, increasing the skill of your units with every victory. Materialize your deity to become a unit with extraordinary powers to lead an army in battle. Or strategically transcend your deity into an etherealized form, casting magical spells throughout the world and in any battle, and growing in power as you research magical spells and increase your magic skills in your quest for world domination.
HUGE VARIABILITY IN GAME PLAY:
USER-FRIENDLY GAME INTERFACE:
IN-DEPTH WORLD OF FANTASY AND MAGIC:
ENGAGING CITY MANAGEMENT:
HUGE VARIABILITY IN GAME PLAY:
- Choose your deity's starting abilities from over 30 deity abilities, and select your starting magic knowledge from 10 different schools of magic. Witness the potency of your deity's spells increase with its magic skill.
- Explore the world map with over 200 unique units, each with choosable attacks, spells, abilities, and in-depth stats and attributes.
- Harness more than 250 unique abilities acquirable by units, and over 300 unique spells and enchantments in 10 schools of magic.
USER-FRIENDLY GAME INTERFACE:
- Random map generator allows full control over the size and type of the map, from full land maps, to one continent maps, to island hopping maps with hundreds of islands.
- Powerful AI strategy on the world map, and AI tactics on the battle map enhance game play.
- If you prefer not to manage some aspect of the game, such as controlling your units in battle, managing cities, or managing workers/resources, you may assign any or all tasks to AI control, so you can focus on aspects of the game you prefer. Or manage all aspects of your empire yourself for ultimate control!
IN-DEPTH WORLD OF FANTASY AND MAGIC:
- Find and create powerful magic items for your units, such as weapons, armor, shields, helm, rings, amulet, and boots. Items increase unit attributes, and have special enchantments to further enhance unit abilities (such as Health Regeneration, Dragon Slaying, or Invisibility).
- Increase unit experience and level as you win battles. As units increase in level, you determine which new spells, attacks, abilities, stats or attributes they learn.
- Summon powerful magical units to join the ranks of your armies, such as Dragons, Lich Lords, Rock Behemoths, and Shadow Rift Spawns, and lay waste to entire armies of less powerful units.
ENGAGING CITY MANAGEMENT:
- Over 160 unique buildings can be built in each city. Streamlined interface allows quickly choosing building priority queues, so you never get bogged down with micromanagement.
- Over 200 technologies to research, increasing various aspects of your empire.
- Hire mercenaries in your cities as they make themselves available based on various factors which you influence.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
Something about this evaluation looks wrong Report illegal or harmful content