Perimeter: Emperor's Testament

awesome game :D

Useless DLC.

tts of the text https://youtu.be/WBOt8pgFDDo К-Д ЛАБ was making new and original games one after another. But it seems once the publisher (or the other, or both) offered them to make an add-on instead of a new game, half the team including the lead started an exodus. Harkback never made another good game ever, and neither did the lead with the exodus team. This is an add-on to Perimetr, so the core gameplay is still good. But you can see that without KranK even an add-on is not on par with the original. Because it's kinda a budget release. There are no new cutscenes, only bits and pieces of the old ones with cheap filtres. Story-wise it's a more focused experience following the Mechanical Messiah, so it's not as confusing. And is not as psychospheric, it doesn't even involve the player in its storytelling. The emperor has a new actor despite the story starting somewhere in the middle of the original storyline. I really don't like the insinuation that crispo were made by Mechanical Messiah, and therefore by humans. Instead of real aliens it's now a very small world and it's a predestination preqel once again. Also there's often no logic in do X but not Y tasks. Gameplay options a…

Perimeter: Emperor's Testament, developed by K-D Lab and published by Fulqrum Publishing, is a standalone expansion to the cult-classic RTS Perimeter, building upon one of the most unconventional real-time strategy foundations of the early 2000s. Rather than following the traditional formula of resource gathering, base spamming, and mass unit production, it refines and extends a system centered around energy networks, terrain manipulation, and perimeter defense. The result is a strategic experience that feels more like a territorial engineering puzzle layered over large-scale warfare than a standard RTS skirmish. The defining mechanic of Emperor’s Testament is its terraforming system. Instead of harvesting multiple resource types, players rely on a single resource—energy—which is generated and distributed through a network spread across flattened terrain. Terrain cannot simply be built upon; it must first be leveled using specialized units, and this reshaping process becomes a critical tactical element. Expanding territory is not just about claiming space, but about carefully planning how that space will sustain your energy grid. Because every building and defensive perimeter draw…

Play original permieter instead. Maybe play the remaster, idk i haven't tried that. I'd say this would've been a fine expansion if it didn't cut content that was in the first game, as there is no Harkback faction in this game due to addition of new lab and units. Scourge is underutilized in the campaign, could say it's entirely cut from the game too. But as it stands, it's pretty bad. [b]Story:[/b] it derails into a random mess that makes little sense very fast. It feels too detached from the original story, even if it supposedly expands on events post Perimeter 1. There's too many things that just appear out of the blue and you don't really get any proper set up or explaination of it. Also those are things you would've heard about in the first game if they actually were inteded and not made up on the spot in this expansion [b]Campaign design:[/b] also super lacking, most missions feel short and trivial. Imagine any campaign level from the original game and instead of having an engaging multi-objective level, the level abruptly ends after you complete the first task. The rest of the missions are annoyingly unfavourable to you, where if the AI wasn't so dumb you'd not h…

3/10