History is full of empires, and some are going on to this day. The question is: how are they made, and how long until they fall? In How Empires Work, you’ll take things incrementally and slowly build up an empire that’s to your liking. You’ll have to work many different factors toward your desires, but if you’re able to make things go smoothly, the empire will take care of itself. For a time, at least. The team at Crow Cottage has revealed that the strategy game will drop on Steam on November 3rd. Wishlist the game today, or play the demo to see what it’s like. If you need to hear more, check out the synopsis and trailer:

“In How Empires Work you manage the development of a state, from local lordships to enormous networks of trade and conquest.

Discover systems of taxation, trade, colonization, labour and more. As your state grows, unlock automation features that turn repeated actions into complex interlocking institutions. Build the economic and political machinery of empire, then employ your aristocracy to manage the bureaucracy that keeps it running.

Explore and expand across a hand-painted world that comes alive with flows of capital, commodities, and armies. Employ both diplomatic influence and conquest to bring new lands into your imperial system.”

You might think it’s easy to build an empire, but it’s actually anything but simple, as this game will prove. Its features further highlight this fact:

Incremental Grand Strategy: Start with the humble click of a button and expand into the management of an Early Modern state of tax collectors, traders, armies, colonies and bureaucrats!

Explore new regions, build roads, manage provinces, and project influence far and wide.

Build your economic engine and let it propel you into new eras along the long arc of history!

Lean on your aristocracy and growing bureaucracy to create the systems that sustain expansion!

Turn profit into power, and power into profit, just like real life!

Receive firm, helpful and always perfectly reasonable guidance from Her Imperial Majesty!

Think you have what it takes to rule from on high? Get the game when it releases and find out!