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Empires Shall Fall

Empires Shall Fall

Empires Shall Fall is a turn-based tactics game set in a dieselpunk world. Upgrade your army and command your troops, then exploit terrain to eradicate your enemies with sheer power and sharp tactics.

Released Feb 19, 2024 Developer Weird Penguin Games Publisher Weird Penguin Games, Electronic Sheep Games Platforms Windows StrategyTurn-Based StrategyTurn-Based Tactics2DTactical
View on Steam ↗ $12.99 (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 2026-09-26.

87.2%positive148 reviews
Recommended · 2 found this helpful

“Worthwhile nostalgia”

— a player, Steam review · 32 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“this game started out with promise to be a really solid war tactics game. its very similar to advance wars in gameplay but the game design is terrible. I was happy with the first several missions, although some of them were way too easy. After a while I came to a mission that…”

— a player, Steam review · 3 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 2026-09-26.

17achievements
5.9%median completion
1.4%rarest: League Campaign Master
43.8% of players 33.8% of players 25.0% of players 20.3% of players 17.2% of players 10.0% of players 9.4% of players 6.0% of players 5.9% of players 4.8% of players 4.0% of players 2.6% of players 2.5% of players 2.1% of players 1.7% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 43.8% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
43.8%Prologue — Complete the prologue
33.8%Perfect Start — Complete the first prologue mission without losing any units
25.0%One Man Army — Win the mission with exactly 1 unit alive
Rarest badges of honor
1.4%League Campaign Master — Complete all League campaign missions with S rank
1.4%Battle for Liberstadt, Final — Complete the final League mission without using any upgrades
1.7%Battle for Liberstadt, Part 2 — Complete the final Empire mission without using any upgrades

Latest official news

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

Nov 16, 2024
Steam Workshop update! Empires Shall Fall - Patch 1.2.0

Patch 1.2.0: - Added Steam Workshop support. Now you can share and download custom maps! - Added Best Score for campaign. - Added name of the mission in victory screen.

Apr 17, 2024
Patch 1.1.1 and 1.1.2

Patch 1.1.1: Some of the Japanese translations have been improved Patch 1.1.2: Corrected some honorific expressions in the Japanese dialogues

Apr 04, 2024
Empires Shall Fall - Patch 1.1.0 - New Languages, Bug Fixes, New Skirmish Maps!

Patch 1.1.0: - Added new languages: French, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Turkish - Chinese and Japanese translations have been completely redone - Added 4 new skirmish maps: Short Bat

Feb 12, 2024
Empires Shall Fall Developer Livestream!

Join us at our Steam page stream! We'll be streaming our game. Empires Shall Fall is a turn-based tactics game set in a dieselpunk world. Upgrade your army and command your troops, then exploit terrai

Nov 14, 2023
Empires Shall Fall Developer Livestream!

Join us at our Steam Turn-Based Carnival stream! We'll be streaming our demo. Empires Shall Fall is a turn-based tactics game set in a dieselpunk world. Upgrade your army and command your troops, then

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.

GenresStrategy
Player tagsStrategy · Turn-Based Strategy · Turn-Based Tactics · 2D · Tactical · Tanks · Hand-drawn · World War I · Turn-Based Combat · Lovecraftian · PvP · Military (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · PvP · Shared/Split Screen PvP · Co-op · Shared/Split Screen Co-op · Shared/Split Screen · Steam Achievements
LanguagesEnglish, Russian, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, French, Portuguese - Brazil, Spanish - Latin America, Turkish
ControllerFull support
Achievements17
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 32-bit or newer Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.80 GHz / AMD Athlon II X4 @ 3.10 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: ATI Radeon HD 5770 or NVIDIA GeForce GTS450 with 1GB VRAM Storage: 400 MB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card