Ordinary Empires

One life. Many decisions. Your legacy.

Ordinary Empires combines life simulation and business management across generations. Start on your first day at school, develop your skills, choose your career and decide what you will leave to your family.

Your city is the starting point

Move your character through walkable 3D neighbourhoods with shops, workplaces, a park and a waterfront. Rotate the camera, select buildings or familiar people, and plan suitable activities when you reach them. Animated residents move through the neighbourhoods. The city is your main view; action menus and the life journal open detailed management screens.

Plan your everyday life

Schedule school, learning, work, rest and time together in your weekly calendar. Energy, stress, money and available time shape your choices. Conversations, walks and shared activities build closeness and memories. Set your own pace: pause to plan or advance a single day.

Build your businesses

Found companies, hire staff and match contracts to your capacity. Manage costs, income, locations and business relationships. Work and business are connected to your personal life: growth takes money, time and people.

Connect family and wealth

Meet people, nurture relationships and start a family. Manage savings, loans and investments. Prepare your succession and pass wealth and businesses to the next generation. Without a successor, your dynasty ends. Your chronicle records important decisions and experiences.

• Single-player life simulation from childhood to the next generation.
• Walkable 3D neighbourhoods with a rotating camera and location-based actions.
• Weekly planning, education, careers and relationships with lasting consequences.
• Businesses with staff, contracts, capacity and financial decisions.
• Family, inheritance and succession.
• German and English interfaces, with mouse and keyboard controls.

Development and closed beta

Ordinary Empires is in development. The closed beta will help test the introduction, controls and the connection between everyday life and business. Access is granted in stages; signing up does not guarantee an immediate place. The current version focuses on neighbourhood exploration and life and business simulation. Walkable interiors and a free building mode are not yet included.