What Art Empires is

Playable now

Art Empires is an empire builder where your army is a deck of cards made by real artists.

You can do this now.

A knight, a robot and a woman off a city bus queueing into a gallery

In short

  • Build a city on an island you share with other players.
  • Collect cards. Every card is artwork by a real artist.
  • Hang cards in your gallery to keep your city happy, or put them in a deck and attack somebody.
  • You will never have enough cards for everything, so you have to choose.

Where the cards come from

Artists submit their own work from DeviantArt (opens in a new tab). Nothing is taken without asking, and nothing is sold here for real money.

How much of it exists

The game is in early alpha, so every page here says what state it is in. You can build a city, gather and ship resources, research, collect cards, and fight with them in the Arena and against the Overgrown Galleries on your island. Fighting another player is designed and not built yet.

A page marked Designed, not built is a plan, not a promise about a date.

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