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2017 · 2-10 players · 60min · weight 2.25 · 377 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
230590
Name
Empires
Year
2017
Rank
6961
Min players
2
Max players
10
Playing time
60
Min playtime
30
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
2.25
Num weights
8
Bayes avg
5.66991
Average
6.76284
Users rated
377
Num owned
520
Wanting
43
Wishing
180
Num comments
143
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:56 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (4)
Auction / BiddingSimultaneous Action SelectionTradingVariable Player Powers
Categories (2)
EconomicNegotiation
Description (693 chars)

In Empires, you represent a colonial European nation that is competing to gain the most support. Support is won by supplying your people with goods; goods are produced when your people work in your territories. You can gain people, territories, goods, and supporters by winning wars. To win wars, you must pay gold to raise armies, and gold can be earned by winning wars and by selling goods. All turns are taken simultaneously, and there are no restrictions on trading. At any point in the game, you may trade anything: people, territories, goods, gold, player powers, etc. The game takes place over a series of rounds. At the end of the final round, the player with the most support wins.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.