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Empires in Ruins

Empires in Ruins

The bastard child of Grand Strategy and Tower Defense, with a black humor infused plot, set in a grim, disillusioned world. Quell the rebellion, tame the Western Marches, disobey your orders and save your brandy. Not strictly in this order.

Released Mar 25, 2021 Developer Hammer & Ravens Publisher Hammer & Ravens, WhisperGames Platforms Windows WargameSandboxCity BuilderTower DefenseRTS
View on Steam ↗ $17.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

78.1%positive146 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Empires in Ruins is an unusual strategy experience that refuses to stay within the boundaries of a single genre. Developed by Hammer & Ravens and published by Hammer & Ravens alongside WhisperGames, it blends turn-based empire management with real-time strategy and tower…”

— a player, Steam review · 16 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

40achievements
3.2%median completion
0.7%rarest: March of the Saint
74.0% of players 53.7% of players 53.4% of players 26.9% of players 15.7% of players 15.5% of players 15.1% of players 9.3% of players 8.1% of players 7.9% of players 6.8% of players 5.9% of players 5.7% of players 5.3% of players 4.9% of players 4.2% of players 3.9% of players 3.7% of players 3.6% of players 3.2% of players 3.2% of players 2.9% of players 2.8% of players 2.6% of players 2.3% of players 2.2% of players 2.2% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.8% of players 0.7% of players 0.7% of players 74.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
74.0%Hail and Kill — First kill
53.7%Blood of my Enemies — First 100 kills
53.4%Be chrool to your scuel — Complete the main tutorial
Rarest badges of honor
0.7%March of the Saint — Have a Soldier die while under the effects of Martyrdom and running out of enemies
0.7%Beyond the Realms of Death — Beat all the 26 base arcade maps in Hardcore mode
0.8%Kill with Power — Beat all the 26 base arcade maps in Intermediate mode

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 09, 2024
A new game announced! Ale Abbey, a monastery brewery tycoon!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2789460/Ale_Abbey/ Ale Abbey is a monastery brewery tycoon set in the late Middle Ages. Assign your carefully selected crew of brewers to research new styles and bet

Jul 04, 2022
Build v1.038

Fixed an issue with resolution of Arcade mode research panel

Sep 29, 2021
v 1.037 Artilleries damage

* Fixed a bug that did show the wrong text based on battle difficulty * Fixed a bug that did display wrongly Health, Speed and Timer modifiers in the pre-battle panel (they were applied correctly thou

Sep 27, 2021
v 1.36 Attacking enemies and starting resources

Hi all! I've got some new feedback, I did some brainstorming, and here's how I addressed it. Some of you complained that they do struggle with enemies attacking the towers. Now this is a quite fundame

Sep 14, 2021
v 1.35 Korean Localization and some fixes

Hello guys! There we go with a new update. I am working on quite some bug fixes, some nasty, some just well hidden and hard to nail down, but stuff keeps coming! Thanks to all those that played and fo

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresIndie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsWargame · Sandbox · City Builder · Tower Defense · RTS · Turn-Based Strategy · Grand Strategy · Base-Building · RPG · 2.5D · Isometric · Dark Humor (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Cloud · Stats · Steam Leaderboards · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish * , Simplified Chinese, Italian, Russian, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, German, Japanese, Korean *
Achievements40
Official sitehttp://www.empiresinruins.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 32bit Processor: i3 Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 420 2GB Storage: 2 GB available space