Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
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Emprise is expected to come out around 2023-2024.
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About the Game
A GRAND TIME TRAVEL TECHNOLOGY SURVIVAL ADVENTURE
TIME TRAVEL through the eras of time!
Ride dinosaurs, forge primitive tools, build a human colony, siege castles, and automate & mobilize in the industrial revolution.
Throughout history in an insane once in a lifetime survival crafting base building open world adventure.
ADVENTURE THROUGH THE ERAS OF TIME:
Pre Life -> Dinosaur -> Primitive -> Colonial -> Ancient Wars -> Industrial
NEW ERAS & FEATURES TO BE REVEALED
EXCITING TECHNOLOGY
Progress through time eras as you develop exciting technology!
This game will always keep you engaged and excited.
- Fight, tame, and ride dinosaurs
- Forge iron and tools, and build a primitive base
- Build and manage a human tribe colony
- Siege ancient castles, fly a hot air balloon
- Automate by building machines and generating electricity
- Construct and sail industrial ships and aircrafts
SURVIVAL FEATURES
- CRAFTING & POWER: from forging your own stone tools and manually forging iron, to colonists & waterwheel power and then electricity powered machines.
- BASE BUILDING: from primitive houses to a tribal colony and to an industrial electrical zone.
- COMBAT: from fighting dinosaurs with rocks or riding them against each other, to fighting animals with primitive spears, sharp swords, and even guns.
- EXPLORE & GATHER: gather resources as you explore the different eras, each having different resources for new technology.
Game Discussion
Steam User 16
Grand Emprise is a wonderfully thought out and engineered game. What surprises is that it is one person's brain child. That being said, of course there are certain things that may seem a little lack luster about the graphics and interactions. But what this game does make up for is the conceptual and philosophic context. More over, the game explores scientific theories towards the end.
All that to say, I really enjoyed the game. A big 'thank you' to the creator. If this is what you can create solo, then I would really love to see what you can accomplish with a team.
Steam User 7
Game is enjoyable going through different "eras" and technologies. I thought it looked good and controls were good. It was a little hand holdy and short.
PROS: looked nice, engaging, fun use of time periods, riding dinosaurs, good sound
CONS: a bit hand holdy in always telling you what to do so not really a survival game. it took about 12 hours to complete which felt a bit short if I hadn't gotten it 50% off.
Steam User 6
This was an enjoyable experience. Seems quite unpolished and very linear, but I put those attributes aside and played anyway. Glad I did. Simple and a little different than what I usually play. 16 hours from start to finish, could've finished faster, but i toyed around a little bit.
Steam User 6
Wow.
Ok, you can read in some places asset flip bla bla bla...
Ok, the fact is the developer is alone, and clearly using assets is...well...they're here for what? to be used...so they are!
Dev crearely focused the gameplay and stuff that makes his game pretty good.
I really love the idea and the way it is brought here.
A bit short (but hey, good sign, i want more!) but you can continue playing after the end.
So yes i hope that we'll get a second opus.
Steam User 1
Open the game.. thinking how its gonna be..
-The physics are occasionally hilarious, NPCs will stare into your soul for a little too long, and I’m 90% sure I broke history by teaching a caveman how to floss dance.
-Never in my life made so many bridges in the sky instead of on the water...
-My house literally floating above ground seems like I made the houses before gravity was invented?!?!
-Started in the Stone Age, punched a tree, tamed a dinosaur, accidentally invented capitalism in medieval times, then got hunted by time cops in the future. 10/10.
Steam User 1
Currently a short game, wish there were more npc, more map, some of the maps were just to get a to b. Replay is low at the moment.
Steam User 4
Is it Janky? Yes. Is it fun? Yep! In some sense this feels like a tech demo a studio would send to publishers seeking funding to develop the full game. Also, I don't think calling this game asset flip does it justice...
Most, if not all assets, did not come from the dev, but the dev themselves weaved everything together into an unique experience with their own programming skills. If I were to complain about something, it would be about the over-reliance on graphics as a selling point, taming foxes sucks, and the first boss battle was completely unbalanced. Game could be a lot more optimized as well....
In terms of fav era... I gotta say the Dyson Sphere, Colonial, Industrial, Primitive and Dino (in order.)
Also, this game totally should have had controller support.... Dev dropped the ball on that one. I would have given a pass if the Colonial era was RTS like AOE 2 rather than first-person. I like the inter-dependencies between eras too. That was both fast-paced and kept things fresh.
Will I buy the sequel? Maybe, if they add controller support (or have an era with RTS elements where keyboard/mouse makes more sense.)