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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 477 reviews of which 435 were positive and 42 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Airborne Empire into these genres:

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

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System requirements

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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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May 2025
Airborne Empire is a game that lets me 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 overall 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 – I can go to the map and select a place to go: credit to the developers adding this feature that was widely requested since the first game. - 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. - Buildings allow me to garrison many units easily. They also allow ungarrison all of them easily. Useful for removal of workers from Defense Towers after combat. - 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 playing. Cons? *Higher max speed than the current 100% max speed. *Some of the mineral deposits need to be richer. **When you mine minerals, the conversion rate to the desired materials is pretty varied. I wish there could be equal, instead of varied. *More efficiency in water condensers. Overall, I had a great time. If you like the genre of City builders, this could be the a great game for you. Verdict Score:95% Recommendation: Yes Achievements: 20 hours Replay value: Little
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April 2025
Most deffinitely. However please go in this new adventure that this aerial city builder is, with the correct mindset. When quests are pending, do ONLY WHAT IS ASKED OF YOU, NO MORE. You 'll ruin the game if you do. For example, you need to destroy a pirate outpost. En route there you spot a prison so you destroy it. You get nothing out of it, because the next quest you 'd be getting would be a "break 'em out of jail" mission. This would have given you something. Now you 'll get nothing. Not even the quest will be present for you to try, since you have already destroyed said prison. This is an incredible game, however to enjoy it fully, DO ONLY WHAT IS ASKED OF YOU, NO MORE. Other than that, this is an incredible game. Sky cities in deed. Or cities floating on air NOT on water. That would be hyperdimension neptunia city builder. This is AIrborne Empire.
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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.
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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.
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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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Airborne Empire is currently priced at 28.99€ on Steam.

Airborne Empire is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 28.99€ on Steam.

Airborne Empire received 435 positive votes out of a total of 477 achieving a rating of 8.48.
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Airborne Empire was developed by The Wandering Band LLC and published by The Wandering Band LLC and Stray Fawn Publishing.

Airborne Empire is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Airborne Empire is not playable on MacOS.

Airborne Empire is not playable on Linux.

Airborne Empire is a single-player game.

Airborne Empire does not currently offer any DLC.

Airborne Empire does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Airborne Empire does not support Steam Remote Play.

Airborne Empire is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Airborne Empire
28.99€
8.5
435
42
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23
Developer
The Wandering Band LLC
Publisher
The Wandering Band LLC, Stray Fawn Publishing
Release 13 Jan 2025
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