Airborne Empire PC

Airborne Empire is a spin-off of a 2020 city builder, Airborne Kingdom. It was developed by The Wandering Band, emphasizing RPG elements and combat. The game was published by Stray Fawn Publishing.

Plot

Airborne Empire is set in the same fantasy world of Airborne Kingdom. We play as the governor of a flying city, tasked with turning it into an empire. The player must establish relationships with other cities, both flying and grounded ones, and defend their land from sky pirates and hostile settlements.

Mechanics

Airborne Kingdom makes use of the top-down perspective. We'll spend most of the game taking care of our floating city as it traverses the vast open world.

We'll encounter many friendly settlements we can visit and talk to their people. This unlocks various quests, completing which grants valuable, unique rewards.

While traversing the world we gather resources to unlock better city defenses, weapons, more advanced tools, buildings and various upgrades, such as elevators and stronger engines. The latter are especially important, as we must pay attention to our city's weight, making sure the engines can keep it in the air.

Aside from economic aspects we must also successfully defend the city from danger. As we expand, we draw the attention of pirates and hostile cities. To survive aerial battles we must fortify our city with towers, cannons and assault ships.

These aren't the only threats we'll face - we must also deal with fires, illness and the people's dropping morale. Overcoming these problems will gradually turn our fortress into the capital of an airborne empire.

Technical aspects

Airborne Empire retains the first game's low poly artstyle.

Last updated on 26 March 2024