Random, mindless, nonsense

This barely qualifies as a game. Your decisions are limited to where you want to explore/settle/attack, what city upgrades you build (from an extremely limited set of choices), and what cards you play in combat (and add to your hand if you win). This wouldnt be so bad if you could at least choose one more thing: unit deployment before a battle. Without that this game has barely more strategy than snakes an ladders. On top of that, if you dont win a lot of combat early in the game you enter a death spiral because each unit you lose adds Strife to your combat deck which further reduces your card choices making you less and less effective over time.

cbatt about EMPIRE: The Deck Building Strategy Game, v1.0.0