Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom

I think the gameplay and graphics are the best out of the whole series, and they did such a great job with the illustrations of those buildings and scenery. Building cities, managing the inhabitants, keeping everything going smoothly - so much fun to work it all out! These games are great too - because I have a gaming desktop which handles modern 3D games no problem, but my laptop is more for things like word processing. However, if I'm off somewhere with just the laptop and need a break, games like this one that run in 2D sprites and tiles will work great on just about anything! So there's I quite enjoy high quality 2D games like Emperor. Years ago I lost my CD. Disaster! I have been waiting for a digital way to play this game for so long, fantastic!

Emperor is the best of all the Impressions city building series. So excited to see this on GoG. There are so many quality of life improvements here drawn from their experience with the previous games that, for me, it makes it hard to play and enjoy the older ones except as a nostalgia trip. If you enjoy this genre at all, you need to play Emperor.

There have been many city building games before it and many after it, but this stands as the best city building game ever made for me. It has it's rough spots, some just quirks of the series it's in, but it's also the most fun the genre has ever been. There are many newer titles that takle the genre such as entries in the Anno series , but this is still the only game that's so good at what it does that you don't care when it was made or how it looks, or how many times you've replayed it.

I am a massive fan of all the city builder games. Pharoh, Caesar, zeus etc. This is absolutely fantastic game if you like the likes of the others. Infact id go as far as to say it is the best. I completed the game, downloaded all the player made campaigns and am still left wanting more. Im absolutely gutted that i have no campaigns left to play, to the extent that i am considering replaying the whole game again. If anyone knows of anywhere to download more campaigns other than the emperor heaven website please let me know! emma@auk2000.co.uk

Sseth Wei Cheng here. Absolutely amazing city builder, still actual until today. Rich graphics age great and still look fantastic. Game itself is nice and has a huge replayability potential.