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Circle Empires is a fresh take on the RTS genre, featuring a fast-paced approach to conquering the world.

Circle Empires is a strategy, indie and casual game developed by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive.
Released on August 08th 2018 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Turkish, Czech, Polish and Korean.

It has received 3,922 reviews of which 3,504 were positive and 418 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.6 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.86€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Circle Empires into these genres:

Strategy Indie Casual RTS Fantasy Real-Time Singleplayer Multiplayer 2D

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8, Windows 10
  • Processor: 1,7GHz dual core
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel/AMD Integrated Graphics, 1GB VRAM
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: System requirements may be subject to change.
MacOS
  • OS: Mac OS X 10.9+
  • Processor: Intel Core i3 2100 3,1GHz
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: AMD Radeon HD 6970M 1GB
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: System requirements may be subject to change.
Linux
  • OS: Linux
  • Processor: 1,7GHz dual core
  • Memory: 3 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Intel/AMD Integrated Graphics, 1GB VRAM
  • Storage: 1 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: System requirements may be subject to change.

User reviews & Ratings

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June 2025
Circle Empires is an absolute gem. The gameplay is simple to pick up but surprisingly strategic, making it perfect for both short sessions and longer marathons. Conquering one circle after another is super satisfying, and the way each one holds different enemies, resources, or surprises keeps things fresh every run. The game strikes a great balance between relaxing and engaging. You can lean back and enjoy building your army, collecting loot, and expanding your empire without feeling rushed or overwhelmed. The colorful visuals and charming art style add to the chill vibe, and the music fits the tone perfectly. There’s also a great variety of units and leaders to experiment with, each offering different playstyles. Whether you want to swarm enemies with cheap units or go for a powerful elite army, it always feels rewarding. I'm just wrapping up the last few achievements now, and I already can’t wait for Circle Empires 2. If you enjoy light RTS games with a fun twist and a relaxing pace, this one’s absolutely worth it.
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Feb. 2025
It has the basics of circle-based territory capture RTS, resources, attacking units, defense facilities, etc. There are not many choices, so the play time is short and it's easy to play. You can move around, flank, scavenge, etc., but it's basically a game of quantity. Recommended for those who don't have much time. Please do not expect the AI ​​to be too intelligent.
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Dec. 2024
If into the likes of Warcraft and Starcraft - then Circle Empire is a fast paced and fun alternative. This one's cutely cartoonish fresher take on RTS with a non-existent learning curve. Probably also inspires those usually aren't into real time strategies. Games don't often take much time either; the game fits to be whooshed away during lunch breaks at work. Native Linux support is a plus from these wonderful fellow Estonians. One thing lacking though; Circle Empires doesn't have cloud saves!
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Nov. 2024
A lot of different units and tactics you can develop to complete the game, it's very fun! It feels like it's repetitive after like 5-6 hours.
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July 2024
Summary: 6/10 - A mini-RTS that fails in basic areas like balance and AI with exploits everywhere Circle empires feels like an attempt to throw things together and see what sticks. The basic circles can have one to four entrances which can be fortified. Towers can support this while workers harvest resources. As formulaic as the symmetric maps are as formulaic is the meta. Get bank for gold, start using heavy cavalry. Switch to counter units for harder problems on higher difficulties (like catapult spam to kill spawners in 200k dragon clusters). Then use AoE spam. Many commanders have few, nearly banal differences once unlocked. Those that do have drastic differences are so imbalanced to the meta (especially the mermaid queen or the pumpkin wizards or the death knight) that playing them is like shooting yourself in the foot on higher difficulties. These difficulties are generated by braindead attack speed, resource generation and automatic respawns. As such the obvious strategy is to focus down the spawners and towers since outside of Empire mode they don't get rebuild. This is another of his games problems. Hundreds of units fight, as such targeting specific structures inside tons of enemies to get rid of them once a battle started is nigh impossible. Your units constantly chose weird routes to a goal, sometimes triggering another battle by cutting through unowned tiles and triggering extra battles for you. As a final insult, winning on impossible does not unlock nightmare, experienced, hard or normal achievements. So you have to speedrun the lower difficulties anyway (for completionists). This type of time sink is not well received in modern times. Someone that beats impossible obviously shouldn't be forced to play normal. Despite all these obvious issues there are some fun elements to this quirky, cheating game, which is far too easy on normal and ridiculously cheating on nightmare. Cheesing nightmare empires with a Angie warlord blitz or beginning a war of attrition with catapult sieges on Impossible conquest are interesting. Getting the 200.000 gold deed by using a poison pool with three gold converters on death and spawning workers for 150 food to turn into 60 gold is further a ridiculously dark emergent feature. This game is above average, it is a 6. That however with lack of polish, balance and blatant shortcuts in AI design is all I will ever grant it. It's easily completeable in 10 hours if you set your mind to it and got RTS experience. The Apex monster back is really not worth it though. It adds effectively the same as before with minor new enemy types. It's more of the same.
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Circle Empires is currently priced at 8.79€ on Steam.

Circle Empires is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 8.79€ on Steam.

Circle Empires received 3,504 positive votes out of a total of 3,922 achieving a rating of 8.61.
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Circle Empires was developed by Luminous and published by Iceberg Interactive.

Circle Empires is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Circle Empires is playable and fully supported on MacOS.

Circle Empires is playable and fully supported on Linux.

Circle Empires is a single-player game.

There are 2 DLCs available for Circle Empires. Explore additional content available for Circle Empires on Steam.

Circle Empires does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Circle Empires does not support Steam Remote Play.

Circle Empires 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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Luminous
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Release 08 Aug 2018
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