Imperiums: Greek Wars

Imperiums: Greek Wars is a dense and ambitious strategy experience that aims to capture the political complexity, military uncertainty, and cultural richness of the ancient Mediterranean world. Developed and published by Kube Games, the game positions itself at the crossroads of traditional 4X design and grand strategy, offering a slower, more contemplative take on empire building. Set around 359 BC, during a period of immense upheaval and opportunity, it invites players to guide a faction through an era where city-states rise and fall, alliances are fragile, and power is as much about diplomacy and economy as it is about armies on the march. From the outset, the scope of the game is immediately apparent. Players can choose from a wide array of factions scattered across Greece, the Balkans, Anatolia, and surrounding regions, ranging from famous powers like Athens, Sparta, and Macedon to lesser-known tribes and emerging states. Each faction starts with a distinct geographical position, political situation, and set of challenges, ensuring that no two campaigns feel the same. Expansion is not simply a matter of claiming empty territory; it requires navigating contested lands, managin…

The game does a good job keeping itself interesting and not overly micro-managey. Coming from Civ V (Vox Populi mod) and Old World, both being good on their own right, Greek Wars offers a lot of mechanics I wish those games had. - When a city gets upset at your rule, revolt can appear and spread to neighbouring cities and it might eventually create it's own player AI. It feels like a proper civil war. - With some DLC, unplayable tribal factions might appear and take over a chunk of the map and eventually create their own faction, which is so dynamic and fun to see them grow and influence the area they've come to conquer. - The supplies mechanic offers great strategic opportunities to strike an enemy's army supplies rather than the unit itself. In turn, the enemy army grows hungry, morale gets lowered and they might eventually even join your faction instead. Those were just a couple of examples. The AI is also great at decision making and when the AI's difficulty is higher, it is actually higher, rather than giving the AI some buffs just to appear more competent. The dev's done a wonderful job at making a dynamic and interesting field. I personally find the graphics and…

An uphill grind every step of the way. I won't give it a thumbs down because that wouldn't be fair to the developers and people who like this type of challenge, but as for me - I couldn't stand it.

seems awesome but spent 2+ hours trying to get it to run on linux referencing old steam threads and protondb but could not get it to run without broken (nonexistent) text. the venn diagram between people autistic enough to play a lot of grand strategy and autistic enough to run linux has to have enough overlap for future releases to be built with linux compatibility in mind i hope, since it genuinely seems great. will not be forcing friends to buy it as i cannot run it. microsloppers win this time.

its like a civ game but limited to ancient greece has some bugs but is still fun

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