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Eight-Minute Empire

Eight-Minute Empire
Steam Deck Playable 🖥 Windows 🍎 macOS 🐧 Linux
Mostly Positive · 77% of 127
DeveloperAcram Digital
GenreCasual
$3.99 −50% near all-time low
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Quality77/100
Great
  • 77% positive of 127 reviews
Value100/100
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  • Now $3.99 — 50% off $7.99
  • Lowest we've recorded: $3.99

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About

Eight-Minute Empire is the super-quick area control game requiring tough decisions. It’s easy to learn and perfect for when you only have a few minutes. ⏱



Eight-Minute Empire, by Ryan Laukat, is a quick Civilization/Exploration game using card-driven area control.

In Eight-Minute Empire, 2-5 players take turns selecting a card from the six displayed. This card gives the player a resource and also has an action that the player takes immediately. Actions help players take over the map, but the resources are worth points at the end of the game, so players have to balance the two aspects. Players spread across the map in order to collect points at the end of the game by having majority control in regions and continents.



Eight-Minute Empire is a super-quick area control game requiring tough decisions. It’s easy to learn and perfect for when you only have a few minutes.

  • ⚔️ Recruit troops to strengthen your army
  • 🏞️ Command your forces to acquire new provinces
  • 🌎 Challenge your friends all over the world
  • ⛵ Sail across the seas & build castles to expand your empire
  • 🤺 Eliminate enemy troops to weaken your adversaries
  • 👑 Collect goods to increase your advantage

AWARDS & HONORS

Our digital adaptation:

🏆 2017 Golden Geek Best Board Game App Nominee
🏆 2017 Golden Geek Best Mobile/Handheld Nominee

The board game:
🏆 2013 Golden Geek Best Family Board Game Nominee
🏆 2013 Golden Geek Best Print & Play Board Game Nominee
🏆 2014 Gioco dell’Anno Nominee
🏆 2014 Gra Roku Nominee

Features


- official Eight-Minute Empire game
- great artwork
- in-game interactive tutorial
- languages: English, German, Dutch, Polish, French, Spanish, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Chinese Traditional and Simplified, Russian
- optimized for PC, smartphones, and tablets
- play with AI, with friends, or with both
- pass and play mode
- online multiplayer with synchronous and asynchronous modes
- opponents' last moves replay
- 3 levels of difficulty AIs with individual strategies
- different maps
- climate sounds and music
- official rules plus extra additions
- unique, original board game feel on your electronic device
- colorblind mode
- over 70 achievements
Review sentiment over time
positive critical

Media

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Eight-Minute Empire screenshot 6

System requirements

System requirements platform
Minimum
Minimum:
  • OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+), Windows 10 and Windows 11
  • Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable.
  • DirectX: Version 10
  • Storage: 700 MB available space
Minimum
Minimum:
  • OS: High Sierra 10.13+
  • Processor: Apple Silicon, x64 architecture with SSE2.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Metal capable Intel and AMD GPUs
  • Storage: 700 MB available space
Minimum
Minimum:
  • OS: Ubuntu 18.04+, SteamOS+
  • Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support.
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable.
  • Storage: 700 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Gnome desktop environment running on top of X11 windowing system Other configuration and user environment as provided stock with the supported distribution (such as Kernel or Compositor) Nvidia and AMD GPUs using Nvidia official proprietary graphics driver or AMD Mesa graphics driver.

Achievements

Showing the 16 most-earned of 75 achievements

  • A_008
    71.8% of players
  • A_033
    67.0% of players
  • A_001
    57.7% of players
  • A_010
    57.1% of players
  • A_052
    41.4% of players
  • A_056
    37.6% of players
  • A_034
    35.9% of players
  • A_032
    34.9% of players
  • A_005
    34.0% of players
  • A_029
    33.7% of players
  • A_030
    31.3% of players
  • A_013
    26.6% of players
  • A_036
    26.1% of players
  • A_057
    25.8% of players
  • A_014
    25.3% of players
  • A_059
    23.9% of players

Age rating & content

dejus14
Violência fantasiosa
igrs18
Interaksi DaringKekerasan
steam_germany12
Fantasy-Gewalt

Price history

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Game info

Developer Acram Digital
Publisher Acram Digital
Platforms Windows, Mac, Linux
Compatibility
Steam Deck Playable
Features
Multi-playerSingle-playerSteam AchievementsShared/Split ScreenCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam Trading CardsOnline PvPShared/Split Screen PvPRemote Play TogetherPvPFamily Sharing