Empires in Ruins overview

Overview

Empires in Ruins comes from Hammer & Ravens and is published by Hammer & Ravens, WhisperGames. It arrived on Steam on Mar 25, 2021, and it sits naturally among Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, and Family Sharing. SteamPulse tracks it across Windows and Steam so readers get a quick useful snapshot, not just a wall of numbers.

Players and reviews

Empires in Ruins's latest SteamPulse observation recorded 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 11:06:12 UTC, with a tracked peak near 5. This peak is the highest value in the available SteamPulse record and may not include activity before tracking began. Player reaction is 79% positive across 145 reviews.

Language and system requirements

Empires in Ruins is available in 9 languages including:

3 regional rating boards including dejus, steam germany, and igrs

Sales, recommendations, and streams

Empires in Ruins has sold up to 4,350 units and has 107 Steam recommendations. The estimated VGI revenue is $50,912. On Twitch, 0 streamers are live with around 0 total watchers.

Empires in Ruins overview details

Empires in Ruins combines live player counts with reviews, pricing, platform support, Store metadata, dated player history, media, recent news, and related games.

Steam Store description

The most offensive defensive Grand Strategy game around, with a black humor infused plot, set in a grim, disillusioned world. Empires in Ruins is a story-driven novel take on Grand Strategy that merges Empire Building, Tower Defense and RTS battles. Conquer, build, defend and lead the grumpy Sergeant Hans Heimer in his own personal vendetta against "the system". KEY FEATURES Plot driven campaign - betrayals, diplomacy and nasty twists Turn based strategy - quell the rebellion, kick back the enemy and restore the law. Empire management - conquer back the provinces, strengthen your command, chose your best governors and grant your military campaign a steady flow of resources Arcade play mode. Because... FIGHT! Tower defense-based combat - fight your battles in a new, advanced tower defense style that winks at advanced real time strategy Dark humor, dark humor everywhere! - Don't smile, it's punishable. In a corrupted little Principality governed by spruced up popinjays, snobby clergymen and power greedy army officers, something just happened. A god forgotten borderland, the Western Marches, just got inflamed with rebellion, cutting every contact with the capital and declaring independence. And in such a critical moment, who to send in order to quell the rebellion if not a grumpy alcoholic sergeant with discipline problems and bad bad temper? Why him? And what is the neighboring kingdom, the Krovans, plotting to do with the Principality of Koth? Empires in Ruins is composed of two main parts. The turn based Main Map, where the campaign develops and you are called to…

SteamPulse editorial summary

Empires in Ruins is listed as a game with $3.59 (80% off from $17.99). It supports Windows, belongs to Single-player, Steam Achievements, Steam Trading Cards, Steam Cloud, Stats, Steam Leaderboards, and Family Sharing, and is associated with Indie, RPG, Simulation, and Strategy. SteamPulse's latest observation records 0 players at 22 September 2026 - 11:06:12 UTC, a tracked peak of 5, and 79% positive reviews.

Overview tags

WargameSandboxCity BuilderTower DefenseRTSTurn-Based StrategyGrand StrategyBase-BuildingRPG2.5DIsometricDark HumorStory RichStrategyMedieval

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