Play Empire - Wargame of the Century Online

Empire: Wargame of the Century came out in 1987 from Interstel Corporation, one of those deep strategy titles you'd load up on an MS-DOS machine. It didn't have flashy graphics, but it fit right in with the kind of thoughtful, complex games that demanded patience and a good memory for keyboard commands.

You control a growing military force across a large world map, moving armies, navies, and air units to conquer cities and eliminate rival computer opponents. The main goal is total domination through careful expansion and combat. Key mechanics include managing production across captured cities to build new units, exploring the fog of war to reveal enemy positions, and orchestrating combined arms assaults across land and sea. The pacing is deliberately slow, almost methodical, with games that can stretch for hours as you secure supply lines and push fronts forward. It feels like conducting a very precise, very quiet war from your desk.

Each game uses different controls, most DOS games use the keyboard arrows. Some will use the mouse , "Alt" ,"Enter" and "Space bar".