How to Download Empires in Ruins

1. Click on the Empires in Ruins download button below.
2. Choose "Install" to install the game on the windows steam client.
3. Follow the on-screen prompts
4. Let it download the Full Version.
5. Once a game is downloaded, use the Windows Steam Client to play the game.

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This guide describes how to use Steam Proton to play and run Windows games on your Linux computer. Some games may not work or may break because Steam Proton is still at a very early stage.

1. Activating Steam Proton for Linux:
Proton is integrated into the Steam Client with "Steam Play." To activate proton, go into your steam client and click on Steam in the upper right corner. Then click on settings to open a new window. From here, click on the Steam Play button at the bottom of the panel. Click "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles."

Alternatively: Go to Steam > Settings > Steam Play and turn on the "Enable Steam Play for Supported Titles" option.

Valve has tested and fixed some Steam titles and you will now be able to play most of them. However, if you want to go further and play titles that even Valve hasn't tested, toggle the "Enable Steam Play for all titles" option.

2. Choose a version
You should use the Steam Proton version recommended by Steam: 3.7-8. This is the most stable version of Steam Proton at the moment.

3. Restart your Steam
After you have successfully activated Steam Proton, click "OK" and Steam will ask you to restart it for the changes to take effect. Restart it. Your computer will now play all of steam's whitelisted games seamlessly.

4. Launch Stardew Valley on Linux:
Before you can use Steam Proton, you must first download the Stardew Valley Windows game from Steam. When you download Stardew Valley for the first time, you will notice that the download size is slightly larger than the size of the game.
This happens because Steam will download your chosen Steam Proton version with this game as well. After the download is complete, simply click the "Play" button.

Windows Pc Requirements

Minimum:

• OS: Windows 7 32bit
  
• Processor: i3
  
• Memory: 4 GB RAM
  
• Storage: 5 GB available space

Recommended:

• OS: Windows 10 64bit
  
• Processor: i7
  
• Memory: 8 GB RAM
  
• Storage: 5 GB available space

Linux Requirements

No minimum requirements!!
No maximum requirements!!

Mac Requirements

No minimum requirements!!
No maximum requirements!!

The bastard child of 4X and Tower defense, with a black humor infused plot, set in a grim, disillusioned world. Quell the rebellion, tame the Western Marches, disobey your orders and save your brandy. Not strictly in this order.

The bastard child of 4X and Tower defense, with a black humor infused plot, set in a grim, disillusioned world.

Empire In Ruins presents a new take at strategy by merging the Tower Defense genre's detailed, recognizable gameplay with elements of Turn-Based Empire Management, in a hybrid never before seen.



Conquer, build, defend and lead the grumpy Sgt. Hans Heimer in his own personal vendetta against "the system".

KEY FEATURES

• Plot driven campaign - betrayals, diplomacy and nasty twists
  
• Turn based strategy - quell the rebellion, kick back the enemy and restore the law.
  
• Empire management - conquer back the provinces, strengthen your command, chose your best governors and grant your military campaign a steady flow of resources
  
• Arcade play mode. Because... FIGHT!
  
• Tower defense-based combat - fight your battles in a new, advanced tower defense style that winks at advanced real time strategy
  
• Dark humor, dark humor everywhere! - Don't smile, it's punishable.

In a corrupted little Principality governed by spruced up popinjays, snobby clergymen and power greedy army officers, something just happened. A god forgotten borderland, the Western Marches, just got inflamed with rebellion, cutting every contact with the capital and declaring independence.

And in such a critical moment, who to send in order to quell the rebellion if not a grumpy alcoholic sergeant with discipline problems and bad bad temper?

Why him? And what is the neighboring kingdom, the Krovans, plotting to do with the Principality of Koth?



Empires in Ruins is composed of two main parts. The turn based Main Map, where the campaign develops and you are called to managed the conquered provinces and the Battlefield, where the real time blood flows and you need to kick the enemy in the arse or be the one kicked.



Empires in Ruins whole plot-driven campaign of turn based strategy and empire building, is managed in the main map. Through it you will access
the single combat maps (according to the plot flow or in order to defend/replay maps), manage diplomacy and access the single province to improve or check their assets and governors.

• Expand, fortify and expand further taking advantage of the conquered provinces reach and infrastructures.
  
• Improve the regions' production, increase the flow of resources to fund your brutal military campaign. Don't expect much help from above.
  
• Handle diplomacy - Like a bull in a china shop.
  
• Assign trusted men to govern the regions. Expect betrayals or hang them before that.
  
• Manage research - More than 100 technologies to research.

Battles are fought in real time, using a hybrid of Tower Defense and RTS mechanics.



COMBAT MAP FEATURES

• Erect your buildings in real time. Avoid getting your workers killed if they walk the wrong path
  
• 17 towers with unique feats
  
• Manage resources in battle
  
• Combine the special abilities of your towers to obtain even deadlier effects (Ever tried a flaming arrow on an oil covered enemy?)
  
• Manage multiple resources, production and special buildings
  
• Deploy Officers to command and enhance your battlefield forces
  
• Beware of nasty, canny enemies. They will open new unexpected paths, sabotage your towers, blow your production and get through your defenses in surprising ways.
  
• Ground, air, water, amphibian and secret enemies paths to defend against.

The path to victory is paved with opponents with badly planned research trees. [cit. Gottfried Megler]

Few things make progression in a game as interesting as unlocking new technologies to empower your troops, weapons and economies. Provided your hated engineer chief, Gottfried Megler, with the tools to evolve your ragtag army against all odds.

• 70+ technologies to research
  
• 30+ unlockables with towers, abilities, buildings and headquarters

“I can see Empires in Ruins as one of those strategy experiences you could lose a lot of time to, either driving through its main campaign and building out your nation or continually challenging yourself to harder levels in the game’s arcade mode.”
Twinfinite

“The most low-fi game I tried was also one of my favourites, the excellent Tower Defense game, Empire in Ruins.”
Geek Bobbage

“On the surface, and I stress on the very surface, Empire In Ruins looks like classic tower defence. Hammer and Ravens themselves call it "the bastard child of 4X and tower defence" and it's certainly not straight up tower defence.”
ElectronDance