Airborne Empire

Airborne Empire is an open world RPG and city builder. Players design and expand a city in the sky, and must keep it aloft by managing its lift, balance and propulsion. They also balance resources, infrastructure and the needs of the city’s population, and organise its defences and abilities against pirate threats.

The game is set across an open world with five biomes, including Aeyrie, Blackspine and Kingsfell. Players can visit distant kingdoms and forgotten settlements, meet characters, trade with them and complete quests that liberate towns and rebuild connections between kingdoms. Sky pirates threaten the region, and players can build defensive structures, use weapons such as Freeze Cannons, Tesla Cannons and aircraft, and locate and destroy pirate outposts. A research system unlocks new lift, propulsion and morale buildings, along with abilities, weapons and city upgrades. Relics and hidden technologies can be found while exploring.

Several modes are available. Survival Mode presents 20 escalating stages of pirate attacks. Pacifist Mode removes combat to focus on exploration and city building. Hard Mode offers a tougher challenge with custom difficulty sliders, and Creative Mode provides unrestricted building.