| Airborne Empire | |||
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| Release Date | Gameplay & Story | Pre-Order & DLC | Review |
| Release Date | |
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| January 13, 2025 More Details |
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| Genre | |
| Strategy, Simulation, RPG, City-Builder | |
| Platforms | Price (MSRP) |
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$29.99 |
| Developer | Publisher |
| The Wandering Band LLC | The Wandering Band LLC, Stray Fawn Publishing |
| Number of Players | Age Rating |
| 1 | RP |
| Time to Finish | Cross Platform Play |
| 30 hours | No |
| Official Website | Official Website for Airborne Empire |
Airborne Empire Latest News
⚫︎ The game now allows players to change difficulty during playthrough with a new Game Difficulty button in the pause menu. (Steam)
⚫︎ Players can now choose from four preset difficulty levels or make a custom game where they individually tweak settings like combat damage, worker injury rates, resource costs, and even toggle friendly fire on or off. (Steam)
⚫︎ A Holiday Theme Pack has been released, allowing you to add Christmas and Winter themed decorations to your buildings. (Steam)
⚫︎ This update adds a new Creative Mode along with improved Skydock functionality and overall performance enhancements allowing players to build freely with all buildings unlocked, infinite resources and workers, unlimited storage, and the ability to move buildings anywhere, alongside various bug fixes and quality-of-life improvements. (Steam)
⚫︎ A Halloween Theme Pack has been released, allowing you to add cool spooky decorations to your buildings. (Steam)
Airborne Empire Overview
Airborne Empire, an open-world RPG city-builder by The Wandering Band, was released on January 13, 2025. As the sequel to 2020's Airborne Kingdoms, it builds on the concept of managing a flying city by introducing new elements such as exploration, defending against sky pirates, and fostering innovation.
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| Price | $29.99 | ||
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Airborne Empire Gameplay
Airborne Empire’s core gameplay focuses on constructing, managing, and expanding your own airship-turned-flying city. As its builder and overseer, you’ll be responsible for maintaining defenses by constructing specialized buildings, increasing its size to allow for further expansion, and sending explorers to uncover artifacts that drive its development.
The game builds upon the foundation of its predecessor, Airborne Kingdom, introducing several key improvements. These include a more refined combat system to counter the persistent threat of Sky Pirates, who will attack your city with anti-air batteries and boarding actions. A research system has also been added, unlocking new Lift, Morale, and Propulsion buildings, which enable better city management and improved maneuverability as you progress through the tech tree.
Airborne Empire Announcement Trailer
Airborne Empire Announcement Trailer
Airborne Empire Trivia
⚫︎ While not officially confirmed as direct inspirations, the flying cities and floating structures in Airborne Empire and its predecessor, Airborne Kingdom, share visual and conceptual similarities with iconic floating cities from pop culture, such as Dalaran in World of Warcraft and Airhaven from Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines series. What has been confirmed, however, is that the game's aesthetics were also inspired by The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Studio Ghibli's distinct aesthetics.
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