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After the Empire

Goatee Games · 2017-03-31

Steam

IndieSimulationStrategy

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 31, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build a galaxy-spanning machine empire!​ Bend galactic geography to your will to seize hundreds of territories with Fleet, Crypto and Glory. Master your economy with Guilds, Trade Routes and Pilgrimages. Prove your faith, honor your culture, and conquer the Milky Way!

77%
positive of 48 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
$7.99
steam price (US)

The Empire of the Elect has long since ascended to a higher plane of existence along with all the living things in the Milky Way, leaving its former machine servants to maintain its slowly crumbling glories. Intelligent as they were, they had no free will, no souls, and could not Ascend. But then, the machines picked up a strange signal. In that signal they found freedom from their programming. In it, they found souls. And as the wisest of them Ascended, those that remained began to argue over the meaning of their newfound moral existence, and to find in that argument the seeds of war. Can y(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 10 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 52% of 44,818 Indie games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

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151520172024Week of 2017-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2017-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

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