Fall of an Empire

UPDATE 06/09/26*: Just adding that the Dev is very active on Steam and fixed or is currently fixing the couple of issues I mentioned in the review and a few other bits that cropped up since. Very impressed. Fun game, messed around as the Western Rebels to get my bearings and get a taste of the different mechanics. There is a tutorial which sets the game up well and has a cool story but it does leave/gloss over a bit so I'd recommend doing a rough playthough as a vassal just to see how things click after youve gotten your bearings from the tutorial. A lot of work went into the game and you can really get caught up in your own story. If you enjoy CK or EU give this a look, its Real Time as well which is uncommon for an indie grand strategy but a very welcome feature. It could use a bit more polish and it could be clearer, I feel the feedback is poor in some areas and can be hard to see if what you did actually went ahead, its also easy to miss notifications of things that happen, though there is a very good ledger; I feel the dev could make more use of the notification pips in the top left and more sound effects for different things happening. Also clicking armies around can b…

It has some promise, but the economy is unpolished in a way that really kills my immersion: - You start with large stockpiles and high decay rates; the optimum gameplay seems to be to sell massive quantities of resources before unpausing. - Contrary to the image of a decaying, once-proud empire, even rich imperial provinces start with extremely little infrastructure and poor finances that can be dramatically improved with a couple years of construction. I shouldn't be building aqueducts with the barbarians on the borders! Legibility is also very poor; there are a lot of options but it's hard to find them and make sense of what they actually do. It's an ambitious game with considerable potential, but I can't really recommend actually trying to play it right now.

I like that it is RTwP, visually is nice, zooming in and out in the world map is well done. But it's micro-managing is tediously boring. So many menues & sub-menues. Tutorial tells you to do stuff, just to progress. I don't have a clue why I HAVE TO push for a client, or propose marriage to whomever popped up in the tutorial, or why I have to create a Personal Guard instead of just building/recruiting military units in the cities. Why complicate things that should not be complex? This game tries to do too much, and fails in the simplest things. Sorry, but no.

This game as the potential to be the best 4xish grand strategy game, i really love the bureaucratic mechanic but wish it could get a little expanded upon but i really love the idea and mechanic

Good game, love how in depth it is. Developer seems very active & appears to want to push this game further.

Dont truly like the new GUI, I prefer the old one, also it was easier. It is kinda hard to see how to raise levies and soldiers etc than it was before.