Empire Architect
Released Oct 2017
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects
65% positive · 172 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Where to buy
Steam $14.99
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Evaluation
Empire Architect released on October 6, 2017 and received a steady stream of updates through late 2018. The developer shipped multiple campaign levels (levels 8 through 12), new buildings, new game systems (the event system, the favor system, the desires 2.0 overhaul), tech tree expansions, and significant optimization work. The last recorded developer communication of any kind was the optimization patch on September 29, 2018. After that date, there have been no further news posts, announcements, patches, or developer statements of any kind — a silence now stretching from September 29, 2018 to the present day in June 2026, nearly eight years. The store description references the 12-level campaign and procedurally generated custom maps, which align with the content that was shipped. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no announced future content, and no roadmap pointing to anything undelivered. The game appears to have concluded its development cycle after completing the campaign content it set out to build, with the developer simply moving on without a formal "final update" announcement.
Evidence
Update 1.67 delivered large-scale CPU and GPU optimization. This is the last recorded developer communication — no posts of any kind have appeared since this date.
Update 1.66 shipped Level 12 (Asturica), completing the 12-level historical campaign described in the store listing. Developer noted 'plenty more to come' but this appears to have been the last major content addition.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Batholith Entertainment
Achievements
16
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The Campaign is set in the historical Roman empire, and Custom game levels are procedurally generated. You have limited control over your subjects therefore your main focus is to build your city, manage resources, appease the gods, educate you people, keep your people happy, and deal with events as the happen all while your rivals try their best to take you out! Defend yourself and fight back with all you might!
Features:
- Take control of an ancient culture (So far only Rome, but I would love to add more if possible).
- Have your people gather resources and produce ever more complex goods with them.
- Appease the gods through the religion system, or feel their wrath if you ignore them.
- Educate your people in order to take on better jobs.
- Entertain the masses through the entertainment system or risk them causing trouble in your city.
- Distribute water throughout your city with the water system.
- Keep your people healthy with the health system.
- Open Trade routes and trade both domestically and abroad.
- Research upgrades in the tech trees.
- Battle the very elements themselves in our custom Weather System.
- Build on Procedurally Generated custom maps.
- Do battle in the 12 level Historical Campaign.
Are these done yet?
Last evaluated Jun 27, 2026
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