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Primordial Empire: Demo Available! 🦠

Primordial Empire · published 1 Apr 2025, 15:32 UTC

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Greetings! I’m a Marc, the solo-developer of Primordial Empire, and welcome to this microscopic world of survival and evolution.

Primordial Empire is a side-on colony sim where players nurture and build an empire of microbes, plants and animals with a self-sustaining ecosystem. I’m thrilled to announced that the demo version of my game is now online, with a demo launch trailer and new Discord server!

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The demo offers 2 hours of gameplay, including a comprehensive tutorial that guides you through the core mechanics of Primordial Empire, and an open demo scenario for you to freely experiment with our 19 unique plants and 5 mobile cells, with more micro-organisms on the way! Explore your surroundings, gather resources and expand your Primordial Empire to every corner of this microscopic world!

Of course, more will be coming to the full game. Here’s a little screenshot teaser: Do you recognise what this peculiar plant is based on?

For more details, here’s a road map with things you can look forward to! (You can find it on the Steam store page too)

More creatures, more colors, more variety!
World map with game progression: Build colonies in different biomes, each offering unique strategic resources. Complete goals in each colony to unlock new organisms and game mechanics, allowing for better colonies and more complex strategies.
Trade: Establish resource-specialized colonies and later import those resources to cultivate increasingly powerful colonies.
Colony defense: Protect your creations from invading organisms and spreading viruses. Trace threats back to their source and eliminate them.
upgraded organisms to tackle new, more challenging goals.
Semi-procedural biomes: Explore a large selection of hand-crafted terrains, dynamically populated with goodies and challenges, offering a fresh experience with every replay.

If you like the demo, please give Primordial Empire a wishlist! And feel free to join our Discord and share any thoughts you have on my game! The game is still in development so I would really appreciate any feedback to improve this colony building experience!

Enjoy the demo and see you in the primordial soup!

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