Road to Empress I
New One Studio · 2025-09-08
AdventureCasualIndieRPGSimulation
Modes: Single player
Releases: Sep 08, 2025 (PC (Microsoft Windows))
You've never played a game like this before. Road to Empress I is a cinematic palace adventure where your choices decide everyone's fate. Tackle multiple story branches and a high mortality rate with charm, wisdom and courage? First...survive.
Road to Empress is a 2025 Chinese interactive film historical drama video game developed and published by New One Studio. Presented in full-motion video and released worldwide on September 9, 2025, players follow protagonist Empress Wu, who becomes China's first and only woman emperor during the Zhou dynasty (690–705). The video game sold over a million copies within its first two weeks.
Health check
- · 1,028 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~129/week).
- · Review velocity up 11% vs the prior 8 weeks.
- · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (2,974 reviews).
- · Top 7% of 11,450 Adventure games in the census by review count.
Review-multiple estimate from 13,192 total reviews — how this is computed.
All-time low: $6.79 at Steam (2025-09-09)via IsThereAnyDeal
12-month high $8.49 · on sale 4 of 8 observed days (census price snapshots)
Review momentum
Price history
Attention
Completion
- · 98% of players earned Nimble Moves
- · 63.1% of players earned Destiny Rekindled
- · 2.6% of players earned Master Listener
Global achievement rates from Steam.
Details
8 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Traditional Chinese, French, German
Console footprint
| Platform | Players tracked | Completion | Trophies/achievements |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam (Steam) | 1,740 | 11% | 40 |
Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.
Where its players are
- Chinese (Simplified)74% · 9.4k reviews
- English14% · 1.8k reviews
- Korean8% · 1.0k reviews
- Thai1% · 101 reviews
- French1% · 70 reviews
Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.
Census log
- 2025-09-09First review activity on record (week of 2025-09-09).
- 2025-09-09Biggest review week on record: 2,974 reviews (week of 2025-09-09).
Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.
Recent updates
- 2026-08-05August 5 Update Notes
- 2026-06-26Road to Empress I Joins Steam Summer Sale at 20% Off
- 2026-06-22Update Notes for June 22
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Similarity via IGDB.