Kingdoms Rise and Fall

Kingdoms Rise and Fall is a real-time strategy game with grand strategy elements. You guide a civilization from a small Stone Age settlement through historical eras, building an empire while managing resources, researching technologies and responding to threats. The game spans the distant past to the far future, with eras including classical antiquity, the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, industrialization and modernity.

Build a civilization

Gather resources, cultivate crops, develop tools and expand your settlement into a modern society or global superpower. The game includes nearly 30 resources, including luxury and strategic resources. You must manage depletion, trade on the international market and compete for vital supplies. There is no population or building limit, so empires can grow to include thousands of buildings and units.

You can research technologies from basic tools such as clubs and spears through iron and bronze making, gunpowder, nuclear missiles and space travel. Each advance unlocks new possibilities and units. Keep citizens happy through luxury-resource trading and other in-game means; happiness can fall after defeats, the deaths of soldiers or citizens, or the destruction of buildings. Civil unrest can spread through regions with distant buildings or units, and needs careful management, particularly when changing government systems or ideologies.

Armies and threats

More than 200 military units operate on land, at sea and in the air, from spearmen and battleships to stealth bombers. Other units include infantry, tanks, aircraft, spies, assassins and snipers, as well as historical forces such as ninjas, samurai, hoplites and Roman legions. Units have different strengths and roles.

Your civilization also faces disease outbreaks, pandemics, barbarian invasions and natural disasters such as hurricanes, tornadoes and severe storms, which can affect stability and resources. Depending on the map or your preferences, threats can also include undead uprisings and alien invasions. Wildlife includes animals such as deer, giraffes and elephants, while bears and wolves pose dangers early in the game.

Maps and game modes

Play on nearly a dozen maps, including maps of Europe and the Pacific, with more than 10 maps mentioned for multiplayer. Modes include barbarian survival, undead apocalypse, alien invasion and real-time strategy battle royale, alongside real-time strategy battles on 3D maps.

AI and multiplayer

AI opponents expand their societies, research technologies and upgrade their capabilities. They adapt their strategies from game to game and have distinct ways of growing and fighting. Multiplayer matches support up to eight players, who can compete or collaborate.