Airborne Empire on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Airborne Empire is a early access, colony sim and strategy rpg game developed by The Wandering Band LLC and published by The Wandering Band LLC and Stray Fawn Publishing.
Released on January 13th 2025 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, German, Simplified Chinese, French, Spanish - Spain, Japanese and Korean.

It has received 417 reviews of which 388 were positive and 29 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 23.19€ on Steam and has a 20% discount.

The Steam community has classified Airborne Empire into these genres:

Early Access Colony Sim Strategy RPG Sandbox City Builder Open World Resource Management Physics RTS Exploration Atmospheric Base-Building Flight Economy Steampunk Survival Strategy Adventure Real-Time with Pause Management

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Windows

OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i7-3770 or AMD FX-8350
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660, 2 GB or AMD Radeon HD 7870, 2 GB
Storage: 2 GB available space

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March 2025

Airborne Empire, I get to rule the skies. This game, I’ve waited for 1 year and I finally got to play the game, albiet the game is in early access development. Pros -Game feels largely complete despite having “early access” tag. There are a small amount of references to more content, but that will come in a significant update. - Resource gathering is fine, somewhat intuitive, and the thing is decent. - Tutorial is barebones, and covers the basics, good enough to understand the mechanics - Sound track is one of the better parts of the game. The original composer returns and writes the music for this game, so he has made some of the soothing immersive music that keeps attention on it. The music is wrapped well among the game, and works well for each moment. I applaud the game for that aspect. - Resource gathering is fine. It is workable - Map is good - Good community support – staff are great because they are super helpful in sttuff - excellent content / roadmap while in early access - fantastic research technology tree from the Academy so that I am able to research a lot of things and expand and improve my city. I love it. - Music is Ghibli-esque. Makes me wonder if it is directly inspired by the words of Joe Hisaishi. -The entire game is a well done game with great execution. It is fun, does not demand much, and it is entirely intuitive. Its learning curve is low, so it is easy to pick up and start pl playing. Are there any things I wish to see improved in the game? Yes there are some items. **Starting capacity for resources should be higher than 30 *The Academy needs to change. It should allow concurrent research *Higher max speed than the current 100% max speed. I would love to see it be probably 5x the speed, even at the 3x of the default speed. Remember, this review is still in early access, and was written by March 2025. I will update this game after the 1.0 update. The 1.0 will release in 2026. If you like city builder genre, I suggest this could be a good time to play.

Jan. 2025

This has a decent amount of potential. Right now, I'd wait for a sale to pick it up. I took my time and played with rebuilding my ship a few times and still finished the game in 30hrs. It currently lacks depth, its mostly going from one area to another while you look for caves or items. It does start to get stale towards the end, but this is early access so I expect to see lots more stuff in the future The building is simple but fun, as well as the concept. As you progress, micro management becomes easier and easier, but its never very difficult. I really hope they add a creative mode, It can be tedious to play with different layouts for your city. Overall, I'm glad i got but but $27 is a little steep in its current state, and again this is EA, games only been out for a few days.

Jan. 2025

This game is amazing, it's super fun, pretty chill but still has some challenge. It's a great city builder and I like the mechanics and I'm sure that it will get even better with time, because, as I wanted to make the point of this post about the DEVELOPMENT TEAM SPECIFICALLY. Here's my story. I ran into a pretty minor bug with clinics not healing workers right away yesterday. It was minor, worked itself out and I didn't have to do much. However, the game is early access so I reported it as best i could with reproduction steps. It was a little bit edge case. Then today, log in after work, and there's a PATCH WITH THE SPECIFIC ISSUE I REPORTED FIXED! That's awesome- unreal. I couldn't begin to believe that this had actually gone through and happened. I love that - responsive developers are who make great games, because they make their games become great. Not that they make it and launch it, they refine it by player interaction and response. With that said, I have huge hope for this game and know that it's already awesome, and bound to be even better over time.

Jan. 2025

A nice little game that seems a bit simple at first, but steadily gains in depth. The demo had me completely hooked and I'm super happy that it has now been launched in the EA. It has a great art style and lots of lovely details. The gameplay also motivates me to keep playing and keeps me under its spell. The base building, resource gathering and game design are simply fun. However, there are also a few weaknesses, such as the currently still very weak performance, despite the relatively simple visuals, the game is very hardware-hungry and often has heavy frame drops. I would have liked a bit more variety in the quests and I also find the camera controls and the UI a little unintuitive, aaaand I would have liked to see different operating modes for the city (e.g. a combat or economic mode in which the corresponding buildings are occupied or abandoned). Despite these shortcomings, which I hope will all be corrected in the course of EA, I love this game and hope that the developers put the time and attention into it that it deserves.

Jan. 2025

I'm not too sure how many people will read this as I'm sure this game is about to have a plethora of a thumbs ups coming its way but here I go anyway. Pros: -Decent Graphical Quality -Decent Sound Design -Amazing Gameplay -Amazing unique idea/concept Cons: -Lacking in Lore/Writing/Plot -Framerate Drops -Slightly too high price tag. Overall, I think this is a really good game that's a bit overpriced. But otherwise I recommend this game. The building mechanic is smooth the management of your city is cohesive and works well. The idea is really interesting and the management and gameplay style is really addictive and well thought out. It was actually harder for me to find something bad to say about the game when I was punched in the face with so much quality but I had to do my due diligence and came up with what I came up with. Yes I recommend, it's a great little city builder game and it's definitely worth your time. I can't wait to see what it'll be like in it's full release but perhaps until then, wait for a discount. Otherwise the game was pretty all around great. But if you'd like a more in-depth look at the game with more information and video of the game then I encourage you to check out the review on my YouTube Channel (link below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UywwpC1F9z0 Otherwise, thanks so much for reading and I hope I managed to help some of you out there spend your money wisely.

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8.6

388

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Developer

The Wandering Band LLC

Publisher

The Wandering Band LLC, Stray Fawn Publishing

Release 13 Jan 2025

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