Anno 117: Pax Romana
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Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.
Celestial Empire is a strategy, simulation and city builder game
developed by President Studio
and published by President Studio and PlayWay S.A..
Released on September 23rd 2025 is available on Windows and Steam Deck
in 13 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Traditional Chinese, Polish, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Korean, Russian, Turkish, Japanese and Portuguese - Brazil.
It has received 714 reviews of which 635 were positive and 79 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Celestial Empire into these genres:
Strategy
Simulation
City Builder
Sandbox
RTS
Building
Economy
Choose Your Own Adventure
Exploration
Historical
Management
Resource Management
Choices Matter
Singleplayer
Artificial Intelligence
Mythology
Story Rich
Replay Value
Colony Sim
Base Building
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Celestial Empire:
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| German | |||
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| Italian | |||
| Korean | |||
| Spanish - Spain | |||
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| Japanese | |||
| Polish | |||
| Turkish | |||
| Portuguese - Brazil |
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System requirements
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10/11
- Processor: 3.2 GHz Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: GTX 1070 or similar (Integrated Graphic Cards are not supported)
- DirectX: Version 12
- Storage: 30 GB available space
- Additional Notes: Integrated Graphic Cards are not supported. Intel ARC series may not be supported yet. SSD required / 30 FPS in 1920x1080 with "Low" preset.
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User reviews & Ratings
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It's a good game with the potential for being a really good game. Feels like a very heavily modded Anno 1800 in the best way possible. At 20 euro you're definitely getting your money's worth. My only real complaint is that performance feels very sluggish. Some suggestions for the devs: 1. Seasons are tedious and add nothing of substance. Having the option to turn them off would be nice. 2. Trading in it's current iteration is uninteresting in the beginning and steadily becomes frustrating as you gain more population. Having to set new trading routes every 5 minutes because some trader is out of spices is annoying. The system can be greatly improved by removing quantity limits and balancing it so that early and pop heavy resources such as rice and simple clothes make more sense to be produced manually in the beginning and set to auto-purchase in the late game as to free up pop for higher tiers. 3. Players should be able to produce coal from wood. 4. Players should be able to place walls diagonally and should not be able to place them so far into the mountains (though being able to place them outside natural building areas in very nice) 5. Base cart amount per warehouse should be doubled. Granary carts should be increased by x1.5. 6. Buffs should be nerfed and the game should be rebalanced according to the nerf. Either that, or remove randomization and have a standardized set of buffs available for purchase. 7. I'd be nice if we could use the move and pipette tools on multiple objects at once. 8. First person mode is gimmicky and if it ends up staying in the game the faith upgrades for it should be replaced with something of substance. 9. Some gods (and their buffs) are obviously better than others. It goes without mention that the game still has loads of balancing issues and a good few bugs. It'd be interesting to see if the devs just push out 1.0 and give up on it or actually put in the effort and make this game really something. As said, it does have the potential for it.
Good city builder. Sure, its like Anno. But without the big $$$, but it has a different flavor and some uniqueness. The tech tree is good, which forces you to constantly evolve your city. In addition, as you unlock new citizen types, they have new needs to satisfy and structure your city for coverage. The game makes it easy to reorganize houses and expand production. Tech and religion require many buildings and coverage. I have been to Japan, I can relate to the many shrines and temples used/required/provided as the game progresses. The trade system works OK. The biggest pain is production changes based on the season; in winter, your fields get a signficant nerf. So you have to constantly change your trade quotas. Some trade partners have limited products, so trade is not a 'set and forget'. Trade requires constant TLC. Seasons in general are a pain. Beyond fields, wood production decreases. I end up disabling saw mills to reduce wood consumption. But then your workforce is constantly changing. This is either a feature or a flaw, depending how you look at it.
Very good and surprisingly complete for an early access game, however there is currently an essentially game breaking bug with the Outpost building - if you hit move on the building, even just for the purpose of rotating it, it causes the entire city limits network to completely collapse. Even if you cancel moving the Outpost, virtually every building you have (including many of those actually inside your original city limits established by your capital building) will show as "outside city limits", and there is no apparent way to fix it without reloading to a save from before hitting move on the Outpost.
This game has some serious potential. Since Rise of the Middle Kingdom, Romance of the 3 has really gone downhill and the so many KOEI offshoots, not even giving the PC release a full game at times. Asian city builders have long been silent, save for the few like Laysara that just never really hit it off with me. I would love to get lost in a planning mode type build here where we lay the city out in ghost design ala Anno and just watch it pop up over time. It has all the right avenues for great city building and with combat on its way, it opens up more. Is there any diplomacy or Grand Strategy type stuff in the far reaches?? My only gripe is the lack of maps. I would like diff vantage point or even procedural generated with proper seeds so it is balanced. Every time I have fired this game up, the slow pace has me exiting after about an hour but I attribute that to it's still EA, so there will be more. It is fun to start over as things are added and see how it all fits in with what is already there. So far, I have had no issues on Normal difficulty making it through winter or any problems that have wiped me out. It is def a CITY BUILDER foremost and not a harsh survival game pretending to be one that has been the plague of City Builders since they failed to add the Tag - "Banished-Like" which would have saved me a few hundred dollars over the years. This is an echo back to the old skool Tilted Mill and Sierra day and I look forward to watching this progress until release. This is, as of now, a chill and relax and build gig going on here and I hope we keep that option as it goes.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Celestial Empire is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam.
No, Celestial Empire is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Celestial Empire received 635 positive votes out of a total of 714 achieving a rating of 8.36.
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Celestial Empire was developed by President Studio and published by President Studio and PlayWay S.A..
Yes, Celestial Empire is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Celestial Empire is not playable on MacOS.
No, Celestial Empire is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Celestial Empire is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
This information about Celestial Empire is not available yet.
No, Celestial Empire does not support VR.
Celestial Empire is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Celestial Empire. Explore additional content available for Celestial Empire on Steam.
No, Celestial Empire does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Celestial Empire does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Celestial 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.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Celestial Empire.
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Last Updates| Steam data | 14 October 2026 23:01 UTC |
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| SteamSpy data | 17 October 2026 02:15 UTC |
| Steam price | 26 October 2026 19:51 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 19 October 2026 05:56 UTC |
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Online players
27
Developer
President Studio
Publisher
President Studio,
PlayWay S.A.
Release
23 Sep 2025
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