Pixel Imperium

Create your world and watch history unfold. Or take matters into your own hands.

In Pixel Imperium, build a world, style it, and live it. Import a real map, generate one in seconds, draw your own coastlines, or reach out to the stars. Paint its realms, resources, peoples, and faiths, then customize its look. An immersive, living map that reflects the world's ecology and activity, with customizable landscapes, units and buildings? Or a real, customizable, fully playable paper map on the table? Or both?

Then press play. Every faction farms, trades, builds, forms alliances, rebels, and goes to war according to its customizable character. Watch it unfold, nudge history as a god, or take the throne and guide a single faction in a fully-featured grand strategy campaign.

Make a world

Generate one with its own seas, mountains, realms and peoples in seconds.

Draw your own in the Map Editor: paint the land, raise mountains, and create provinces.

Import a real map and play or watch the region and period you've never found in a game.

Take it to space, with planets, moons and asteroid belts as provinces and fleets crossing the void.

Give it life in the Faction Painter. Borders, capitals, flags, colors, cultures, faiths, population, and buildings, province by province.

Style the map

Complete freedom in how your map looks. Immersive fills the land with changing towns, fields, forests, roads, marching soldiers, and trade caravans. Or lay the whole world out as a fully playable paper map on the table, in a myriad of customizable styles, such as a medieval chart, a fantasy atlas, or a war-room table. Or combine them at different zoom levels.

Mix your own: switch every label, marker, landscape detail and border on or off, and pick from a wealth of map fonts and styles.

Pick a sprite era, from ancient legions to starships, or draw or import your own soldiers, ships, foliage, and towns in the sprite editor.

Rename buildings, resources and units to fit your setting: hoplites and quinqueremes, ashigaru and atakebune, or marines and dropships.

A world that lives

Underneath that beautiful map, every province grows food and people, every realm runs an economy, and its caravans and ships carry real trade. Every faction has a fully customizable personality, from aggression and caution to tolerance, overlordship and mercantilism. A cautious merchant republic and a warlike horde behave nothing alike. Realms form alliances, take vassals, accept new peoples or persecute them, and collapse into civil war when they overreach. Every run writes its own history, which you can view graphically.

Play god, lightly

Be as involved as you want to be. Micromanage every aspect of your realm, from buildings, to trade, to diplomacy, to blockades and military campaigns. Or rule with the help of advisors to manage the economy while you focus your efforts on conquest.

Or don't control a realm at all and, when the mood strikes, reach in with the Divine Hand and stir new colonies to secede, blight a harvest, start a war, or reshape a nation's mind. Then sit back and see how the world responds.

Or just observe

Take an even lighter touch and hide the interface in Diorama mode to drift the camera slowly over your world while history plays out, or have it run as your live desktop wallpaper.

Or take the throne, seize the state

Pick any nation and play a fully-featured grand strategy campagin, week by week. Build farms, markets, harbors and defenses. Raise armies, march, besiege, and ship troops across the sea. Trade your surplus, accept new peoples, negotiate alliances, and take rivals as vassals.

Any map, any era, on land or among the stars

If you can dream it, you can make it live in Pixel Imperium.