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Empire Earth: Gold Edition

Stainless Steel Studios · Rebellion · 2026-05-26

SteamGOG

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 06, 2003 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

With dozens of hours of gameplay set across a rich tapestry of time, Empire Earth: Gold Edition offers real-time strategy for the ages. Choose any point in time - from the discovery of fire to the laser battles of the future - and command your civilization with one goal: make Earth your Empire.

Empire Earth: Gold Edition is a 2026 Strategy game priced at $5.99, featuring a Very Positive review sentiment (89% of 184 reviews).

90%
positive of 222 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
80/100
IGDB user rating (10 ratings)
bronze
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$5.99
steam price (US)
Empire Earth is a real-time strategy video game developed by Stainless Steel Studios and released on November 13, 2001. It is the first game in the Empire Earth series.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 66 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~8/week).
  • · Review velocity down 41% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 30% of 14,072 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 4.4k–10.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 222 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$5.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $1.12 at GamersGate (2020-10-26)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $5.99 · on sale 7 of 64 observed days · $4.87 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

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606020262026Week of 2026-05-26: 60 positiveWeek of 2026-05-26: 12 negativeWeek of 2026-06-02: 18 positiveWeek of 2026-06-02: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-09: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-06-16: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-23: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-06-23: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-06-30: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-06-30: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-07: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-14: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-21: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-07-28: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-04: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-11: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-08-18: 4 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$6.49$1.122015-01-012026-10-142015-01-01 — best price $5.552015-01-28 — best price $6.492015-03-19 — best price $6.492015-04-17 — best price $2.992015-05-29 — best price $2.402015-06-19 — best price $1.992015-07-23 — best price $5.992015-11-04 — best price $2.992015-12-18 — best price $2.392016-03-29 — best price $5.992016-07-26 — best price $2.032016-10-20 — best price $2.042017-05-09 — best price $5.992017-08-11 — best price $2.032018-02-27 — best price $2.032018-06-04 — best price $1.992018-10-19 — best price $5.992019-05-30 — best price $1.492019-12-11 — best price $1.992020-06-15 — best price $5.992021-04-23 — best price $5.992022-04-14 — best price $5.992022-10-09 — best price $2.032023-04-10 — best price $1.972023-11-21 — best price $1.972024-05-02 — best price $5.992025-11-25 — best price $2.992026-04-05 — best price $1.492026-08-28 — best price $5.992026-09-05 — best price $5.992026-09-13 — best price $5.992026-09-21 — best price $5.992026-09-29 — best price $5.992026-10-07 — best price $5.992026-10-14 — best price $5.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

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Census log

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Recent updates

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