After the Empire

After the Empire is a strategy game about leading a machine civilization from control of a few hundred million star systems to dominion over the Milky Way. You seize territories with Fleet, Crypto and Glory, and manage your economy through Guilds, Trade Routes and Pilgrimages.

The machine empire

The Empire of the Elect and all living things in the Milky Way have ascended to a higher plane, leaving their former machine servants to tend its slowly crumbling glories. The machines were intelligent but had no free will or souls, and could not Ascend. After a strange signal frees them from their programming and gives them souls, some machines Ascend while those who remain debate the meaning of their new moral existence. That debate becomes the seed of war, and you lead the Gilded Folk through it.

Shape the galaxy

Galaxies are procedurally generated and contain 60 to 300 territories. You can bend galactic geography to your will as you expand. The game has 21 buildings to invest in and research, or sabotage, and an income share system for managing your economy. You can also customize your Faction in thousands of ways, while proving your faith, honoring your culture and pursuing conquest.

Game modes

You can play turn-based or in pausable real-time mode. Five difficulty levels are available, with AI opponents that play by the same rules as you. Personal Leaderboards and weekly competitive Leagues track play.