New Steam RPG Airborne Empire has a unique approach to settlement building
Mashing up a city builder with an open-world RPG, Steam newcomer Airborne Empire offers a dizzying spin on both genres at the same time.
While most city builders and RPGs keep the action firmly planted on terra firma, here's a charming new Steam release that combines both genres and takes things skyward. Airborne Empire has just launched in early access, and it's certainly one of the most novel settlement building games I've seen in a while.
Airborne Empire takes place in a world where people used to build and live in floating cities, only for a faction of ruthless aerial pirates to cause terror and claim the skies as their own. For years, it's been too dangerous to leave the ground, but in this open-world RPG you'll be the one to break the cycle.
Fans of city building games and management games will immediately be drawn to the core component of Airborne Empire, which is constructing and maintaining your own settlement in the sky. Not only do you have to overcome the typical constraints of resources, manpower, and knowledge, but because you're up high, you also have to manufacture engines for lift and propulsion. Before you can build lots of heavy buildings and expand your settlement, you'll need to increase your lift so that you don't plummet to the ground, and propulsion devices will help you navigate the skies. Symmetry is also key – you must keep your weight balanced on each side so that you can keep flying straight and true.
As you pass over the world below, you'll find resource deposits and NPCs on the ground that will be willing to help you in your fightback against the pirates. If you nail your dialog choices or complete side quests for those below, they'll reward you with new technologies, such as building types or weapons.
As your settlement grows in size, so too does your population – those cannons aren't going to man themselves, after all. Your inhabitants will need accommodation and other amenities to keep them happy and motivated. You've also got a lot of survival systems to keep track of too, including light (due to Airborne Empire's day-night cycle), injuries, sickness, and fires.
Your biggest threat is, of course, the pirates that terrorize the skies. Aerial combat will require you to have enough maneuverability, defenses, and attacking firepower to fend off pirates and stay aloft.
Source: PCGamesN
Build your unique flying city
Airborne Empire is a one-of-a-kind Open World RPG City Builder. It challenges players to build, manage, and grow their own unique city in the skies. They traverse a vast and rich open world full of new dangers, exotic wonders, and many hidden treasures. They must manage lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city. Sky pirates can upend the city's tranquility, and players must defend their inhabitants – and the kingdoms below! – from destructive attacks. Only clever and daring leaders can grow and protect their homes, seek out and destroy enemy strongholds, and finally reunite the peoples of this world.
Research and discover through exploration
While exploring a variety of biomes, players find themselves deep in an open-world full of rich characters, dialogue choices, side-quests, and lost marvels. By helping the peoples below, they gain the knowledge to develop new technologies – including new lift, propulsion, and morale buildings. They'll also gain access to better tools for defense – and offense – against the pirate threat; defense towers, cannons, and attack planes can be researched, upgraded, and augmented with the tools found by combing the world and unraveling its mysteries. With full systems for building upgrades, fires, sickness, injuries, light, morale, and augmentation relics, there is plenty of treasure to discover!
Reforge a harmonious world
If players can manage the challenges along this adventure, they'll find themselves the leaders of a sprawling sky city, with enough prowess to defend against any incoming threats. It shall be the capital of a harmonious empire – the Airborne Empire of legend – reforged under their banners.
Mashing up a city builder with an open-world RPG, Steam newcomer Airborne Empire offers a dizzying spin on both genres at the same time.
While most city builders and RPGs keep the action firmly planted on terra firma, here's a charming new Steam release that combines both genres and takes things skyward. Airborne Empire has just launched in early access, and it's certainly one of the most novel settlement building games I've seen in a while.
Airborne Empire takes place in a world where people used to build and live in floating cities, only for a faction of ruthless aerial pirates to cause terror and claim the skies as their own. For years, it's been too dangerous to leave the ground, but in this open-world RPG you'll be the one to break the cycle.
Fans of city building games and management games will immediately be drawn to the core component of Airborne Empire, which is constructing and maintaining your own settlement in the sky. Not only do you have to overcome the typical constraints of resources, manpower, and knowledge, but because you're up high, you also have to manufacture engines for lift and propulsion. Before you can build lots of heavy buildings and expand your settlement, you'll need to increase your lift so that you don't plummet to the ground, and propulsion devices will help you navigate the skies. Symmetry is also key – you must keep your weight balanced on each side so that you can keep flying straight and true.
As you pass over the world below, you'll find resource deposits and NPCs on the ground that will be willing to help you in your fightback against the pirates. If you nail your dialog choices or complete side quests for those below, they'll reward you with new technologies, such as building types or weapons.
As your settlement grows in size, so too does your population – those cannons aren't going to man themselves, after all. Your inhabitants will need accommodation and other amenities to keep them happy and motivated. You've also got a lot of survival systems to keep track of too, including light (due to Airborne Empire's day-night cycle), injuries, sickness, and fires.
Your biggest threat is, of course, the pirates that terrorize the skies. Aerial combat will require you to have enough maneuverability, defenses, and attacking firepower to fend off pirates and stay aloft.
Source: PCGamesN
Build your unique flying city
Airborne Empire is a one-of-a-kind Open World RPG City Builder. It challenges players to build, manage, and grow their own unique city in the skies. They traverse a vast and rich open world full of new dangers, exotic wonders, and many hidden treasures. They must manage lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city. Sky pirates can upend the city's tranquility, and players must defend their inhabitants – and the kingdoms below! – from destructive attacks. Only clever and daring leaders can grow and protect their homes, seek out and destroy enemy strongholds, and finally reunite the peoples of this world.
Research and discover through exploration
While exploring a variety of biomes, players find themselves deep in an open-world full of rich characters, dialogue choices, side-quests, and lost marvels. By helping the peoples below, they gain the knowledge to develop new technologies – including new lift, propulsion, and morale buildings. They'll also gain access to better tools for defense – and offense – against the pirate threat; defense towers, cannons, and attack planes can be researched, upgraded, and augmented with the tools found by combing the world and unraveling its mysteries. With full systems for building upgrades, fires, sickness, injuries, light, morale, and augmentation relics, there is plenty of treasure to discover!
Reforge a harmonious world
If players can manage the challenges along this adventure, they'll find themselves the leaders of a sprawling sky city, with enough prowess to defend against any incoming threats. It shall be the capital of a harmonious empire – the Airborne Empire of legend – reforged under their banners.
