The Game — World of Empires III

Civilizations

From the Harappans of the Indus to modern Singapore, thirty-five peoples from six ages of history. Each brings a unique unit and buildings of its own, and leans toward one calling: scientist, builder, agrarian, aesthete, merchant, militarist or expansionist.

Leaders

Two leaders per civilization, each with a title, a trait and an agenda. Computer rivals play the personality they are given, and they rule through exactly the same orders you do.

Technologies, discovered — not bought

Fund four fields of research: war, society, land and craft. When a field breaks through, it offers up to three discoveries and you choose one, with the odds shown up front. Wars, trade and unrest tilt what comes next, so every game charts its own path through history.

A rocket lifts off at dusk while a crowd watches from the shore

World wonders

From Stonehenge and the Pyramids to the Hubble Telescope and the International Space Station. Every wonder is one of a kind and rises on its own tile of the map. Finish it first, or watch a rival claim it forever.

Workers haul stone blocks up the ramp of a great pyramid

Places to discover

Ruins, barrows, oracles, shipwrecks, crystal caves and natural landmarks lie hidden across the map. The first explorer to arrive claims the reward — gold, research, resources, troops, even new settlers. Some are guarded. Some are traps.

Dawn over an unexplored valley, with a river winding through the forest

Units on land, at sea, in the air — and beyond

Seventy-two land units, seventeen ships, eleven aircraft and five spacecraft, thirty-five of them unique to a single civilization. Hunt hidden submarines, launch strikes from carriers, and escort your bombers past enemy interceptors.

Battleships trade fire on a stormy sea beneath biplanes and an airship

How empires rise and fall

Depth you can hold in one hand

Districts

Cities grow into six kinds of district — health, culture, military, market, research and manufacturing — each with six building slots and a site that rewards a good location.
Stability

Taxes, luxuries and buildings keep each city content. Push your people too hard and growth stalls, revenue dries up and riots follow.
Culture & borders

Culture pushes your borders outward tile by tile, claiming the farmland, mines and resources around your cities.
World market

A shared market where prices follow supply. Place standing orders to buy what you lack and sell what you hoard.
Resources gold can't buy

Thirty resources, from wheat and wine to horses, iron, oil and uranium. Gold cannot conjure them — you hold the land, or you pay whoever does.
A new world every game

Ten map types, from Pangea to Archipelago, in six sizes. Tune the climate, rainfall, sea level and resource abundance, and choose from six difficulty levels.
A living chronicle

Wonders completed, wars declared, discoveries made: the chronicle records the world's history as it happens, and every turn closes with a report of what changed.
Made for touch

An interface designed from the ground up for phones and tablets, playable in thirteen languages.

Seven eras

From the first fire to the stars

Each era brings new technologies, units and wonders, and remakes your cities' streets and skylines as they grow.

Era I

Ancient

Found your capital beside the river, put warriors and archers in the field and raise the first wonders of the world.
Era II

Classical

Hoplites, legionaries and triremes. Your cities sprout districts, and your borders reach for the sea.
Era III

Medieval

Knights and crossbowmen, castles and cathedrals. Walls hold the line — until the siege engines arrive.
Era IV

Early Modern

Caravels cross the ocean, conquistadors and janissaries march, and the race for distant coasts begins.
Era V

Industrial

Coal and iron feed the factories; ironclads and artillery follow. Whoever controls the mines controls the age.
Era VI

Contemporary

Jets, carriers and submarines. Oil and uranium become the resources every empire fights for.
Era VII

Future

Exo troopers, fusion cruisers and orbital lances. The last era is the one no one has written yet.