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How Empires Work: Incremental Strategy

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Description

The Empress Demands your support

Empires are systems of power, and Her Imperial Majesty has entrusted you to with building one. Do not disappoint her.

A display of Money, increasing at an accelerating rate into the millions.

Incremental Grand Strategy

In How Empires Work you manage the development of a state, from local lordships to enormous networks of trade and conquest. Discover systems of taxation, trade, colonization, labour and more.

As your state grows, unlock automation features that turn repeated actions into complex interlocking institutions. Build the economic and political machinery of empire, then employ your aristocracy to manage the bureaucracy that keeps it running.

A beautiful world, yearning for your enlightened rule

Explore and expand across a hand-painted world that comes alive with flows of capital, commodities, and armies.

Employ both diplomatic influence and conquest to bring new lands into your imperial system.

Discover systems and master history

As your empire develops the game changes around you, and new approaches are required to stand the test of history. You will have to deal with internal troubles, rival powers, and - regrettably - the French.

Grow your economy, expand your influence, and watch your decisions compound into a grand imperial structure.

If you master the game you might even learn How Empires Work!

Features

  • Incremental Grand Strategy: Start with the humble click of a button and expand into the management of an Early Modern state of tax collectors, traders, armies, colonies and bureaucrats!

  • Explore new regions, build roads, manage provinces, and project influence far and wide.

  • Build your economic engine and let it propel you into new eras along the long arc of history!

  • Lean on your aristocracy and growing bureaucracy to create the systems that sustain expansion!

  • Turn profit into power, and power into profit - just like real life!

  • Receive firm, helpful and always perfectly reasonable guidance from Her Imperial Majesty!

System requirements

WINDOWS:

Minimum:
  • OS: Win 10
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better)
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

MACOS:

Minimum:
  • OS: macOS Mojave - version 10.14
  • Processor: 2019 Mac - Dual core from Intel
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Radeon Pro 560x
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

LINUX:

Minimum:
  • OS: Linux (tarball installation)
  • Processor: Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz or AMD FX-6300 @ 3.5 GHz or equivalent
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 670 or AMD R9 270 (2GB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0 or better)
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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