Oriental Empires -- 4x historical strategy

[Grim.Reaper]

I see in the original article this was supposed to be released earlier in 2015. Anyone know the status of game development now? It looks cool, and I love games that push me into new geography/historical environments...great learning experiences. :)

I believe the best we know is that plan calls for release to early access sometime in the first quarter of 2016....

[davidshq]

Thanks Grim! I'll be eagerly awaiting this!

[Martok]

There's a new, longer trailer up on Explorminate.  Looks pretty snazzy: 


http://explorminate.net/2016/01/13/oriental-empires-exclusive-trailer/

[Rayfer]

There's a new, longer trailer up on Explorminate.  Looks pretty snazzy: 


http://explorminate.net/2016/01/13/oriental-empires-exclusive-trailer/

An impressive trailer...!

[Martok]

Oh, and another faction spotlight is now up (Iceberg has released a few of these over the last month or so): 

[Nefaro]

This is one of the few PC games I've been looking forward to.  Just curious as to how varied the factions are, though.

Also.. the combat unit animations in that new trailer vid stutter quite a bit.  Hope they iron that out before release.

[jomni]

The faction previews are too much of a tease. No real substance revealed.

[Gusington]

^I noticed that stutter too.

But I do like the differences between the introduced factions so far. I just gorged myself on all the faction spotlights, but I'll probably be hungry for more in an hour.

[Nefaro]

I just gorged myself on all the faction spotlights, but I'll probably be hungry for more in an hour.

ba-dong-tsss

Goin' to the well for that one, Gussifer Xiansheng.   

[Raied]

Most anticipated game for me this year, most beautiful map design I ever saw, I think I wont be able to resist getting the EA as well.

[jomni]

Me too. Interested in Asian-themed games. And I'm not familiar with this time period so I need to do some reading.

[Anguille]

One of the two instant-buy games for this year....very much looking forward to this...and if it sells well, there's the promise of very interesting DLCs (other asian empires/kingdoms)....could be a game of the decade.

The faction spotlights are ok but i would have liked more visuals (troops, buildings etc).

[Gusington]

I am really hoping for expansions to Mongolia, Japan, Korea...makes me giddy just thinking about it.

If anyone picks up some good reading titles on similar eras please post.

[BanzaiCat]

Wishlisted on Steam to keep an eye on it. This looks good, but the "Early Access" release date of Q1 2016 makes me hope it's not buggy as hell when it comes out.

[Martok]

Wishlisted on Steam to keep an eye on it. This looks good, but the "Early Access" release date of Q1 2016 makes me hope it's not buggy as hell when it comes out.

Iceberg delayed release of the game going into EA specifically so that wouldn't happen, so I'm cautiously optimistic that won't be the case. 

However, as I plan to grab the game almost as soon as it's available, I'll try and post my thoughts here and let you know one way or the other.  (I suspect Anguille will likely do the same, but I won't presume to speak for him.)  :)