A real-time grand strategy game you can pause at any moment. Start from a single town, build forts that shelter the settlements around them, and turn beaten enemies into vassals. Play across five ages against up to seven AI rivals, on a generated world or on a map you paint yourself.

Public builds
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Distinct builds deployed to a game's public (default) Steam branch, as Steam's client network describes them.
Checked within minutes of each Steam change. Observed since 21 Oct 2026.
Source: Steam client network (PICS), App info, public branch. Full methodology
Latest public build
Build 24694747
Update posts
8 postsPosts announcing an update, tagged or not
Posts in a game's official Steam news feed that announce an update: tagged as patch notes by the developer, or plainly about a patch or a released update.
Source: Steam Web API, ISteamNews/GetNewsForApp. Full methodology
Typical gap between builds
Not enough builds yet| Build | Went live | Patch notes |
|---|---|---|
| 24694747 | Update 1.5.0 - Walls & Words |
From Steam’s client network, last checked . Builds before 21 Oct 2026, when we started watching, aren't listed. Patch notes are the developer’s update post from an hour before to a day after the build. Not every build gets one. How we count
| Posted | Update |
|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026 | Update 1.5.0 - Walls & Words Update |
| 24 Jul 2026 | Update 1.3.0: Create Your Map Patch notes |
| 17 Jul 2026 | Update 1.2.1 - Loading Screen and Minor Fixes Patch notes |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Update 1.2.0 - Banners of Command Update |
| 7 Jul 2026 | Update 1.1.1 Patch notes |
| 7 Jul 2026 |
| Update 1.1.0: Pace & Conquest Update |
| 6 Jul 2026 | Hotfix: Invisible Civilizations After Loading a Save Patch notes |
| 4 Jul 2026 | Hotfix: launch crash on Intel Core Ultra systems + pause fixes Patch notes |
Steam keeps no record of past build numbers, so before 21 Oct 2026 a game’s update history comes from its own Steam news: posts tagged as patch notes, and untagged posts that plainly announce a patch or a released update. Older posts are still being read in, most played games first. How we count