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Oriental Empires

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2017

Should you play it?

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

What works

  • Immersive historical setting
  • Deep strategic and tactical gameplay
  • Unique simultaneous turn combat system
  • Detailed city and population management
  • Active developer support and modding capabilities

Things to keep in mind

  • Steep learning curve and limited tutorial
  • Some bugs and ai pathfinding issues
  • Combat ai can be unpredictable
  • Lack of diplomacy depth
  • Limited faction differentiation

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Rising Lords

  • Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI

  • Making History: The Great War

  • Aggressors: Ancient Rome

  • Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete

  • Rise of Nations: Extended Edition

More fantastical

Games that feels like Oriental Empires but with more imaginative fiction

  • ENDLESS Legend™

  • Dominions 4: Thrones of Ascension

  • Command & Conquer™ Tiberian Sun™ and Firestorm™

  • Fallen Enchantress: Legendary Heroes

  • Driftland: The Magic Revival

  • Dominions 6 - Rise of the Pantokrator

More intimate

Games that feels like Oriental Empires but with more focus on close relationships

  • Legend of Heroes: Three Kingdoms

  • Medieval Kingdom Wars

  • Total War: NAPOLEON – Definitive Edition

  • Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

  • NOBUNAGA'S AMBITION: Sphere of Influence

  • 中华三国志 the Three Kingdoms of China

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Oriental Empires: Broadly representative of its motivational profile, with a few distinct shifts. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Story. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Fantasy, Intimacy.

Last update: 21/08/2026