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Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom

Your People Shall Build You a Great Empire if You Rule Them Wisely. Start with a plot of land by the Yang-Tze and end with the Earth’s mightiest empire. Help your people thrive. Discover new technologies. Set taxes, control trade, raise huge armies. Invade other cities and make them yours. Decorate. Do you have what it takes to build the Great Wall? Will you remember to honor your ancestors? Your throne awaits! Build and rule ancient China wisely. Get to know your citizens: Each has a personality, and they're smarter than ever to make your life easier. Keep back the horde! New combat controls

Release date
February 9, 2017
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Sierra
Publisher
Activision
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Your People Shall Build You a Great Empire if You Rule Them Wisely. Start with a plot of land by the Yang-Tze and end with the Earth’s mightiest empire. Help your people thrive. Discover new technologies. Set taxes, control trade, raise huge armies.

Invade other cities and make them yours. Decorate. Do you have what it takes to build the Great Wall? Will you remember to honor your ancestors? Your throne awaits! Build and rule ancient China wisely. Get to know your citizens: Each has a personality, and they're smarter than ever to make your life easier.

Keep back the horde! New combat controls offer more intense fun in battles.

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★ 9.4/10GOG · 740 ratings
GOGLast checked November 3, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
This is THE game I have been waiting for on GOG. It is an excellent city-builder and the pinnacle of the series. It irons out…
★ 5 / 5
The best of the series. It has an amazingly beautiful setting in ancient China, which is definetely an unusual choice in the genre but a…
★ 5 / 5
This is amazing! I already wrote a couple of reviews stating how much I dislike Caesar III mechanics, yet this game using those is amazing!…
★ 5 / 5
Emperor is probably one of the most highly requested games in relation to Sierra Impressions. Thanks to this release, people will finally get to experience…
★ 5 / 5
The soundtrack, the voice lines (considering italian and english versions) were so fu***** funny, the history behind, the mills full of every kind of spices…
★ 3 / 5
Let's be straight. This last entry in the Impression games is mostly a reskin of their previous game, Zeus : Master of teh Olympus, with…
★ 5 / 5
This is it. This is the one I've been waiting for GOG to get, ever since I signed up. I had the CD once, but…
★ 5 / 5
I was frustrated when I first started playing this, because the game doesn't clearly define "market employees," which led to much confusion as to how…

Most recent8

★ 4 / 5
This game wasn't made by the OG founders of the franchise, this game was developed by BreakAway Games and they did a spectacular job in…
★ 5 / 5
Originally had this game on disc (anyone remember those?) and had to get it online when disc players stopped being standard tech. Was worth buying…
★ 5 / 5
I love city builders like Emporer and Ceaser 3. Its a good way to tune out for a few hours and learn something in the…
★ 5 / 5
Used to play the game back in 2003. Continuously failed to develop a city since my English was not good back then, but i enjoyed…
★ 5 / 5
I picked this up after playing Zeus + Poseidon, which I really like. Since Emperor was the historical successor, I was just hoping it would…

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