Empires Apart

Empires Apart allows the player to control any of seven medieval civilizations, namely Byzantines (available for free), Arabs, Aztecs, Chinese, French, Koreans, and Mongols (each as individual DLC). the player Resources are collected by the villagers and there are 4 resources to collect Wood (mainly used to build structures and archers), Food (mainly use for building villagers units and upgrades), Stone (used for advanced structures and defensive buildings such as forts), Gold (used for some military units and upgrades) The combat system in Empires Apart has a strong paper scissors stone element with spearmen beating cavalry, archers beating spearmen and cavalry beating archers. There are many other units that vary the mechanics. There are also Hero units unique to each faction with special abilities, priests with a range of abilities and the ability to collect Relics.

There are 5 ancient powerful artifacts scattered around the map at the start. Players use priests to collect relics. Each relic gives combat bonuses to the side that controls it.

On review aggregator Metacritic, the game has an aggregated score of 68 based on 14 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

Dimitry Halley of GameStar said the game is a "[s]olid clone of Age of Empires with technical mishaps, which barely offers single-player content, but varied factions and strategies in PvP."