Hey everybody! It’s that time of year when sales come at you fast, so here’s another one! From now until October 25th, we’re a part of the Iceberg Interactive Publisher Sale. You can grab a ton of great titles at up to 90% off. Tell your friends/family/cat/lizard -- you can pick up Oriental Empires at 80% OFF for a full week! The Genghis and Three Kingdoms DLCs are also on sale, at 75% OFF!
Always wanted to try Oriental Empires or just looking to complete your collection? We're giving away collector's packages to celebrate the new DLC! One package includes: 👉1x Oriental Empires (base game) 👉1x Genghis DLC 👉1x Three Kingdoms DLC Enter the giveaway by posting a ⚔️ in the Oriental Empires channel on our Discord server: Winners will be announced on August 29!
The Oriental Empires: Three Kingdoms DLC is coming on August 29! Take the role of a warlord attempting to re-unite the land, and create a new dynasty in one of the most turbulent periods of Chinese history. The Three Kingdoms is the most beloved period in Chinese history, in no small part due to its vivid depiction in the novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. The ancient Han Dynasty was coming…
Hello fellow emperors, The new Three Kingdoms DLC for Oriental Empires is coming up soon! We would love your help and suggestions to finalize it for release. That's why we are currently looking for testers to participate in a small beta. ⚔️ The beta will be very exclusive (a small group of 10-15 people) and run through our Discord server. You will be in close contact with your fellow testers an…
Choose your path through this, the most turbulent era in ancient Chinese history. The Three Kingdoms is the most beloved period in Chinese history, in no small part due to its vivid depiction in the novel “Romance of the Three Kingdoms”. The ancient Han Dynasty was coming to an end, and the empire was in chaos. Bandits and rebels were overrunning the countryside, the Emperor was just a child, a…
Before 2018 comes to an end, we’ve released a new update that fixes several bugs and optimizes a lot of features. The biggest change for those of you with the DLC is the ability to play as some of the DLC factions in Imperial Era through custom games! Thank you to everyone this year for your support and encouragement, and for participating in the Oriental Empires community! Join us on Discord ,…
Hey everyone! We've just released a small update that fixes a critical bug in the Genghis DLC and takes care of a few other known issues. Enjoying the game and want to exchange tactics, ask questions and play multiplayer with us? Join our community on Discord: - Moonsugar Changelog · Shooting gallery models not appearing has been fixed · Fixed a bug in the Life of Genghis campaign that prevente…
The Oriental Empires: Genghis DLC is finally here! This brand-new addition to the base game offers new maps, buildings, units, resources, technologies and characters and expands the campaign mode to follow Genghis Khan's life story: from a homeless outcast to the legendary Warrior King. “Genghis Khan is probably the most famous Warrior King in history and his story is one of the most requested…
We are proud to announce the first DLC for Oriental Empires. Participate in the extraordinary rise of Genghis Khan, in Oriental Empires: Genghis ! Begin as a homeless outcast and become the legendary warrior in a brand new campaign. New maps, buildings, units, resources, technologies and characters enrich and expand your quest to become a true Khan of Khans. Train and grow a small band of warri…
Hi everyone, This update’s main feature is the scenario editor. This lets you create scenarios similar to the Warring States scenario, which is already in the game, and share them using Steam Workshop. With the scenario editor, you can define your own factions, easily place cities, buildings and armies, and even include your own faction symbols. We’re really looking forward to seeing what the c…
We are happy to share with you another major patch for Oriental Empires. This latest version brings new starting options for custom games, allowing players to select the preferred starting age. It also allows for more options in multiplayer and on top of that, the AI received a nice little boost, making it better at conducting diplomacy and using a navy. The full changelog can be found below an…
Following the launch of the first iteration of the map editor, we are pleased to announce that we are ready to further roll out the support for community content by launching Steam Workshop Support. With Steam Workshop support, players are now able to upload and share their own maps and scenarios with the community. It is our aim to keep expanding on support for community content and workshop i…
Hi everyone, this update begins the roll out of support for user generated content, by adding a map editor tool built into the game. You can use the maps you create instead of randomly generated ones in custom games, and they can also be used in scenarios you create yourself. Please see the new Modding and Scenarios forum board for more details. User Created Content Support · Added a map editor…
Hi guys, This small update took a little longer, but rest assured that further development is ongoing! This small update deals with some issues with the Warring States scenario, as well as a couple of other small fixes. We also added a little console for those who like to... experiment with the game. Please let us know what you think and stay tuned for more. - Surtur Changelog: UI · Added optio…
The Gamepedia page for Oriental Empires is now live! By contributing to the wiki, you will not only earn the eternal love of your fellow warlords, but you can also win a highly exclusive Oriental Empires prize package. The package contains a boxed copy of the game, an Oriental Empires poster, a one-of-a-kind Oriental Empires art book, and a copy of Sun Tzu’s ‘The Art of War’. Everyone is welcom…
Update 9 October 2017 A new update has just been made available. This update was mainly focused on improving combat, plus a few small issues that came up over the last couple of weeks. We would like to thank all of you for your feedback, especially regarding the combat mechanics and we want you to know that more improvements are on the horizon! The full changelog can be found below. Please let…
The lead developer of Oriental Empires, R.T. ‘Bob’ Smith, is answering questions in an AMA on the r/Games subreddit right now! If you want to know more about the game, its development, or what Bob’s favorite food is, be sure to join us here ! The AMA will run for a day, starting now, so get your questions in while you can!
Hi everyone, Thank you for all your support during the Oriental Empires release, it is truly great to read all your feedback and comments. Today, we are happy to say that we are releasing the first in a series of post-release updates. The first one, is a small update that fixes a few issues that were found after release. The full changelog can be seen below. - Surtur Changelog: · Fixed bug in W…
Publisher Iceberg Interactive announces the full release of their turn-based grand strategy title Oriental Empires . The game launches today, having spent a year in Steam’s Early Access program. In Oriental Empires , players will step into the incredible world of ancient China and Mongolia from 1500 BC, and guide the destiny of their people across 3000 years of military, cultural and technologi…
Hello everyone, After nearly a year in Early Access, we are finally here, it is release day! In a bit, the game will officially leave Early Access and the full version will become available. For our great community that helped us through Early Access, we just pushed the release build out to Steam, giving them access to all the goodness that comes with it. This includes better language support,…
It’s been quite the journey… Oriental Empires will be leaving Early Access on the 14th. The full release features the multiplayer mode, supporting up to 15 players in one campaign, and we’ve arranged a special little something to show it to you. This Tuesday, some of Iceberg Interactive’s employees will be battling alongside with some of our favorite content creators (Cringer63, the Prussian Pr…
Game launches in a month from today so be sure take advantage of this week’s 25% off. After an interesting period of 1 year, Oriental Empires will be leaving Steam Early Access soon! What can you expect to see at full release? Aside from many improvements, fixes and updates, we will launch the game with multiplayer, more supported languages and a brand new historical campaign! During Early Acce…
Hi everyone, We are back with another series of multiplayer test runs and will be playing the next four Fridays at 15:00 CEST, kicking off the first session this Friday (the 7th). We are looking for 4-6 volunteers who can join me and help us out. If more people show up, we can easily have more games running in parallel. In order to improve communications compared to last week, we set up a Disco…
Hi Everybody Multiplayer is finally here. We apologize for the long delay, it's taken much more work than was originally anticipated, but we hope you'll find it worth the wait. It's not quite ready for final release, but a beta build is now publicly available. To use a beta branch, right click the game in your Steam client, select properties, then betas, then select mp_beta. Steam will automati…
Hi Everybody, Apologies to those of you who've been waiting for translations, but a beta supporting German, French and Russian languages is now publicly available. To use a beta build, right click on the game in the Steam client, select properties, and then the beta tab. Select the language_beta_fgr from the list of available betas. Please remember that this is the first beta build, so there wi…
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