Forge of Empires Review

Title: Forge of Empires
Genre: MMORTS | Theme: Historical
Graphics: 2D | Type: Browser Game
Publisher: InnoGames
Developer: InnoGames

Forge of Empires is a browser-based MMORTS made by InnoGames. Relive history as you rule over your empire through the stages of early human civilizations.

You starting with-in the Stone Age and work you way to the Late Middle Ages, watch your empire progress through the ages. Manage your city, produce resources, and build an army to conquer surrounding providences.  A screenshot Forge of Empires with-in the Bronze Age the HUD is clean simple and easy to work with.

Story

You are the Emperor in Forge Of Empires, where you begin building your Empire from a tiny village and help it become the most advanced Empire in history.

You begin with a small settlement with a few huts and a small population. By accepting quests from your advisers, you begin to build the settlement into a village until you are eventually able to begin training soldiers. You must play a balancing act between available population and their happiness to increase the amount of soldiers you have available.

Forge of Empires has only 2 major resources for you to worry about while playing, supplies and coins. Coins are gathered from your residential buildings and supplies are gained from your production buildings. The residential buildings are the different types of homes you can build for your citizens depending upon what your current research level is at. The more advanced your research level, the better the home you can create which provides more income, but it takes longer to generate income.

Combat

Combat in the game is done by a turn based combat style similar to tactical RPGs minus the use of abilities and things like that. Characters go turn by turn on a board that has hexagon looking tiles which represent different types of land.



Forge of Empires is an interesting game which has a very nice environment and soundtrack, along with smooth and eye-easing animation. There are many new features, such as a single player campaign and PvP tournaments, as well as the usual features you would expect from a strategy game such as diplomacy and technology research.

Pros	Cons
Template for a game that could turn out well if features are fleshed out more	The multiplayer aspect feels a bit hollow and is too focused on single player
The ability to shape your town how you want	Slow resource collection
Easy to understand mechanics with a low learning curve	Slow leveling