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The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition cover art

The Settlers® : Rise of an Empire - History Edition

Ubisoft Blue Byte · Ubisoft · 2019-01-22

Steam

Strategy

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer

Releases: Nov 25, 2018 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Build vibrant cities in a medieval world with this modernized version of The Settlers – Rise of an Empire. Each character leads their individual lives and can be observed by you at any time. Will you go down in history as a legendary king?

30
playing now
77%
positive of 751 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam rating
50,000–100,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

30 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 08:00 UTC (census sample)

The Settlers: Rise of an Empire is a 2007 city-building game with real-time strategy elements for Windows. Developed by Blue Byte and published by Ubisoft, it was released worldwide in September 2007. It is the sixth game in The Settlers series. In March 2008, Blue Byte released an expansion, The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - The Eastern Realm, featuring new single-player campaign missions, new maps for both single-player and multiplayer modes, and an enhanced map editor. In September, they released The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - Gold Edition, containing the original game plus the Eastern Realm expansion, and additional single and multiplayer maps. The Gold Edition was also released on Steam and Uplay. In 2015, it was released on GOG.com, and in 2018, it was re-released as The Settlers: Rise of an Empire - History Edition.

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  • · Top 36% of 5,909 Strategy games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 19k–45k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 751 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.75 at Fanatical (2020-01-20)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 43 of 65 observed days (census price snapshots)

Players online

5662026-08-11 22:00 — 36 players2026-08-12 13:00 — 27 players2026-08-13 05:00 — 11 players2026-08-13 21:00 — 29 players2026-08-14 13:00 — 31 players2026-08-15 05:00 — 10 players2026-08-15 20:00 — 42 players2026-08-16 12:00 — 52 players2026-08-17 04:00 — 7 players2026-08-17 20:00 — 34 players2026-08-18 12:00 — 22 players2026-08-19 04:00 — 6 players2026-08-19 19:00 — 37 players2026-08-20 11:00 — 20 players2026-08-21 03:00 — 8 players2026-08-21 19:00 — 43 players2026-08-22 10:00 — 32 players2026-08-23 02:00 — 11 players2026-08-23 18:00 — 55 players2026-08-24 10:00 — 29 players2026-08-25 02:00 — 14 players2026-08-25 18:00 — 36 players2026-08-26 10:00 — 18 players2026-08-27 02:00 — 11 players2026-08-27 18:00 — 42 players2026-08-28 10:00 — 28 players2026-08-29 02:00 — 12 players2026-08-29 16:00 — 56 players2026-08-30 08:00 — 30 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$12.04$3.822018-11-152026-08-132018-11-15 — best price $11.992019-05-10 — best price $5.992019-08-12 — best price $10.852019-11-10 — best price $5.992020-01-01 — best price $10.792020-02-05 — best price $6.592020-03-30 — best price $5.532020-06-01 — best price $10.792020-07-13 — best price $11.992020-08-24 — best price $5.992020-10-08 — best price $5.102020-11-21 — best price $5.992021-01-05 — best price $10.672021-02-09 — best price $5.512021-04-14 — best price $11.992021-05-28 — best price $5.332021-08-06 — best price $5.392021-10-22 — best price $11.992021-12-16 — best price $5.992022-02-11 — best price $10.672022-04-22 — best price $5.992022-06-19 — best price $11.992022-09-01 — best price $5.512022-11-18 — best price $5.992023-01-19 — best price $5.392023-03-23 — best price $11.992023-06-02 — best price $4.792023-08-05 — best price $10.692023-11-05 — best price $10.662024-01-01 — best price $11.992024-03-30 — best price $4.792024-07-14 — best price $4.792024-11-12 — best price $4.802025-03-17 — best price $8.992025-06-17 — best price $11.992025-09-26 — best price $11.992026-01-14 — best price $3.822026-04-20 — best price $4.792026-08-11 — best price $4.802026-08-13 — best price $4.79
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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

Details

WindowsSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPRemote Play Together

4 supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain

Player tags

RTSMedievalStrategyMultiplayerCity BuilderSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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