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- 2025
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- Released: 2025
- Developer: President Studio
- Price: $19.99checked Oct 31
- Steam Deck: Deck Playable
- 94% of 207 reviews
- Genres: Strategy, Simulation, Early Access
- Platforms: Windows
Players highlight
- Beautiful ancient chinese aesthetic
- Deity interactions shape city growth
- Granular control over building placement
- Atmospheric
- Chill
- Contemplative
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About Celestial Empire
The closest matches to Celestial Empire: Anno 117: Pax Romana, Celestial Empire: Prologue, Nova Roma, Citadelum, and Farthest Frontier. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.
If Celestial Empire is your kind of game, the closest matches are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Celestial Empire: Prologue and Nova Roma — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as atmospheric, chill and contemplative, and single out its citizen need satisfaction and deity interaction and blessings. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
About Celestial Empire: 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.
Is Celestial Empire worth buying?
Players recommend it
A summary of what players say, not a promise you'll like it. Every signal is listed below.
- 94% of 207 Steam reviews are positive.
- We don't track this game's daily reviews yet, so this is the all-time picture.
- Early Access: unfinished, and it can change a lot before release.
- Price: $19.99 (checked Nov 7).
- People who recommend it had played a median of 11 h when they wrote their review.
- Steam Deck Playable: works, with some rough edges.
What fans praise · Themes mined from positive reviews
- Beautiful ancient chinese aesthetic
- Deity interactions shape city growth
- Granular control over building placement
- Religious mechanics feel uniquely immersive
Top critical reviews
The most up-voted negative English reviews in our sample, quoted as written.
“The game is fun to play, the graphics are beautiful and there is a lot of content. But what ruins it for me is a lack of maps. there is only three maps, and it gets real boring playing the same maps all the time. I will not be playing the…”
“Game uses AI generated Voices and AI generated Imagery. More than likely, this game was AI generated. The game does have serious lag issues, and the game is WAY too easy. There is no real difficulty or challenge in this game for city…”
People who play it also play: Anno 117: Pax Romana, Celestial Empire: Prologue, Nova Roma
Frequently asked about Celestial Empire
Can I run it?
Does Celestial Empire run on Steam Deck?
Celestial Empire is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
How much does Celestial Empire cost?
Celestial Empire is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Celestial Empire?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Celestial Empire are Anno 117: Pax Romana, Celestial Empire: Prologue, Nova Roma.
Who developed Celestial Empire?
Celestial Empire was developed by President Studio and published by PlayWay S.A., President Studio.