Automata Empire

Automata Empire is a strategy game inspired by Conway's Game of Life. You herd hundreds of mindless automata subjects to attack rivals' castles and take their territory, building an empire across a toroid. Your subjects have no individual intelligence, but you can sacrifice them to build chains of taverns and roads that impose order on the chaos. You can also construct high-velocity catapults to launch minions into battle, balance expansion with consolidation, and engineer feedback loops to overwhelm opponents.

Game modes

The game has five modes:

• Siegecraft: besiege foreign strongholds while surrounding your own castle with a maze of defenses.
• Migration: fight for the last habitable land while fleeing an unstoppable horde of undead.
• Capture the Banner: infiltrate the enemy base to steal its flag, then try to herd it back to your own base.
• King of the Plateau: claim territory by flooding it with as many of your subjects as possible.
• WAAAAAR!!: fight in a deathmatch.

Singleplayer and multiplayer

You can play all five modes in singleplayer or online multiplayer, battling up to three friends. The game also lets you form alliances and break them at inconvenient times.

Match pace

Matches are designed to last about 15 minutes on average. Lightning Mode runs the game at twice the speed, and Autoplay lets you watch AI-controlled players battle each other.