IMPERIUM: Roman City Builder

IMPERIUM is a real-time Roman city builder and strategy game in pixel art. You start with a handful of huts at Vicus Albanus, in the Alban Hills. Build, trade, research, march your legions to war and climb the Senate until you rule Rome as emperor.

A CITY THAT KEEPS GROWING WHILE YOU ARE AWAY
Every building site runs in real time: a domus takes 5 minutes, a temple 2 hours. Close the game and come back later: your workers kept building, the farms kept producing and the market kept earning. Offline progress makes it a relaxed empire builder you can play in short sessions.

FROM VICUS ALBANUS TO ROME
Complete the missions of the Senate, earn glory and rise through 6 offices: village chief, aedile, praetor, proconsul, consul and finally emperor. Each promotion hands you a bigger city: Vicus Albanus, Capua, Neapolis, Mediolanum and at last Rome itself.

BUILD YOUR CITY YOUR WAY
Drag every building onto the isometric map and choose your own layout. 17 buildings with 3 levels each: domus and insulae for your citizens, farms and quarries, markets, baths, temples, the forum, the aqueduct, the amphitheatre and the governor's palace. Clear the forest to make room, raise stone walls and keep grain, materials and denarii in balance like in a true colony sim.

LEGIONS, WARS AND RAIDS
Train infantry in the barracks, archers at the range and cavalry in the stables. Each troop is strong against another. Lead 15 military campaigns against Volscians, Etruscans, Samnites, Gauls, Carthage and the Parthian Kingdom. See the enemy army before you march, then pick the right tactic in each of the 3 turns: shield wall, flank charge or rain of arrows. And watch your scouts: raiders march on the city, and only walls and a ready army will stop them.

TRADE ROUTES
Send caravans by land from the market and ships by sea from the harbour along 15 trade routes, from the fairs of Praeneste to the Appian Way. Oil, wool, wine and weapons bring back resources, but beware of pirates.

RESEARCH AND WONDERS OF ROME
Build the Academy and study 12 technologies, from Roman concrete to the Marian reforms. Then raise 4 wonders, each in 3 phases with marble as the rare resource: the Great Lighthouse, the Circus Maximus, the Pantheon and the Colosseum. Every research and wonder grants a permanent bonus to your empire.

EVENTS THAT ASK FOR A DECISION
19 events test your rule: river floods, fires, droughts, a solar eclipse, pirates, a foreign ambassador, a visiting senator, the people demanding gladiator games. Every choice costs something and changes the favour of the people.

FEATURES
• Real-time Roman city building with offline progress
• 5 cities, 6 ranks, 17 buildings with 3 levels each
• 15 military campaigns with infantry, archers and cavalry
• Raids on your city, walls and defence
• 15 land and sea trade routes
• 12 technologies and 4 wonders with permanent bonuses
• 19 random events with choices
• Isometric pixel-art map with day and night, original music
• 8 languages: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Japanese
• Made by a solo developer

FREE TO PLAY
The whole game, from the first hut to the throne of Rome, is free and playable offline. Optional rewarded videos give bonuses. Gems finish building sites at once, hire extra workers and buy supplies; you can also buy gem packs, a founder's pack, remove the ads, or take the Patrician's Pass monthly subscription with an extra worker, no ads and daily gems. None of it is required: purchases only speed things up.