EarthRoyale 3 (Alpha)
A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux
What is EarthRoyale 3?
it's a Sequel to EarthRoyale and EuropeRoyale and therefore the 3rd game in the series.
It is a chaotic map observation game designed to let anything happen, San Marino taking over half of Europe? USA being taken over by native Americans? Denmark winning something? all is possible.
Gameplay wise it's both turn based and Realtime with important/ major events being turn based while less important but still fun events being real time
Turn Based Events:
- Divide (Alpha 1): a country gets invaded by the surrounding countries.
- Reverse Divide (Alpha 3): a country declares war on all other countries around it.
- Annex referendum (Alpha 2): a country votes yes to being annexed by a bordering country
- Invade referendum (Alpha 2): a country votes no to being annexed and therefore is invaded by a bordering country
Real Time Events:
- Flood (Alpha 2) a single stream flood is created at a higher elevation taking the easiest path down
- Devastating flood (Alpha 2): a coastal area gets flooded making all land below a certain height reachable from that coast into water
- Draining (Alpha 2): a country starts draining all water around a area of their coast
- Draining Multiple (Alpha 2): a country starts draining all water around a area of their coast with the new land going to whatever country is closest
- Flood protection (
Alpha 3Delayed): a country builds up flood protections along a part of their coast
Every x days Events:
- Global Warming (Alpha 3): All areas connected to a unprotected shore bellow a certain height gets flooded, the event gets "unlocked" every 10 years with high odds of happening.
Wanna help make the game better?
Join the discord server to suggest things and talk about the game and help translate it!
Pricing? what do you get?
Newest version costs 5USD with any former version being made free (only full alpha versions and not quick bug fixes)
Alpha 4 will become free and alpha 5 will release on the 30th September
when the game releases on steam or when it gets a full version anyone with the early updates version will get it for free, even if the price is higher at that point!
also steam release will come with no more free versions
(currently aiming at late 2024 or early 2025)
Pre release version?
I'm currently trying out doing a pre release version both to build hype for the next update and giving players some time before release to try the new stuff out and to help me find those annoying 1 in 100 bugs that takes days for me to find alone but takes 10 players just an hour or so to find.
you get it with the normal purchase of 3.5 USD but if you play it, please do expect bugs and please do report any you find in the discord linked above or the comments on here
What's next?
Currently a lot of things are being planned and worked on even if it doesn't make it into any alphas.
some of the things taking the longest time and is the most important is planning out and mapping out different subdivisions, cities (aiming at all capitals and all cities above 250k population) and ethnicities/cultures.
these will allow more events to be made in more unique ways surrounding cities, cultures or a subdivision.
subdivisions will also allow me to both reduce lag and introduce more player friendly stuff such as labels on the map as I'm planning to divide all the games data based on subdivisions, right now it's just divided based on countries.
Colonialism is also planned, i want any "wilderness" to be able to be claimed such as Bir Tawil and Antarctica in the current game map but i also want more wilderness to be able to be created mid game.
Space Colonialism is also planned, in alpha 3 a unplayable version of the moon is added but later on I'm planning to make it possible to colonize it, for alien countries to spawn and to terraform it!, I'm also planning to add mars with the same things possible there + 8 other empty planet slots.
other map options such as 1 map for every 100 years all the way down to either 1600s or 1500s is planned
also most events from EarthRoyale will be added in new more updated forms once the required foundations to add them is done, as well as a more complex version of the integrating culture system from EuropeRoyale and a city version where cities grow and shrink.
there is a lot more planned but plans have, will and do change all the time so any of these features might be delayed, canceled or edited as well as suggested features or un announced features being added before them.
Credits / who works on this game!
i (lizzycat / Lizabeth Gidlund) is the only one and singular person working on the game, if anyone ends up making a translation of the game they will also be credited but any programming, art, planning, designing, writing, marketing, is currently done by me so while i get that many people are excited for the future, please keep in mind that there is no big development team and i am only one person doing my best to make this the best game it can possibly be!
and that takes time.
Purchase
In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $5 USD. You will get access to the following files:
Download demo
Development log
- Alpha 6 plans8 days ago
- Alpha 49 days ago
- Alpha 4 Delay10 days ago
- Alpha 4 Pre release 514 days ago
- Alpha 4 Pre release 417 days ago
- Alpha 4 Pre release 318 days ago
- Alpha 4 Pre release 221 days ago
- Alpha 4 Pre release 122 days ago
Comments
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is there any other way to buy the game, since i live in the Netherlands and don't have a credit card i use ideal for online transactions, most people in the Netherlands do.
not right now but in a few months it's planned to be released on steam
The prereleases keep crashing whenever I load them.
Where can we make the custom maps and get maps from others?
you can make custom maps in any paint software, just copy the files of one of the base game maps and then edit the png maps inside of the files and the text doccuments to fit whatever you want to make.
atm the official place to upload/download custom maps is in the discord server, there is a link to the discord in the "links" menu in the main menu of the game
Ahh, atm I do not have discord. Thanks for telling me though
sorry, wanted to have it outside of discord but only other option would be making a website for it and i don’t have the time or money to make and host it
Will you have a workshop for when it's on steam?
yes
Can you make it so annexed nations can revolt?
it's planned but i want to add the other "entities" that will be able to revolt before i make the event so i don't need to completly redo it later on
also considering making the revolt events heavily city based/having revolts start in cities and expand outwards
can you make it so the country names are written on the country itself please
it's planned but i need to first get subdivisions done so that i can optimize country shape data storage better so that i can use that in a less laggy way to find out where each text should be located
and subdivisions has been taking multiple months of work and is still far from done
Will people who buy the game on itch.io get a steam key to buy the game when it releases on steam?
anyone who buys here will get a free steam key
i wish that people that bought the regular earth royale (me) would get this one too
Sadly that would completely kill this games and any chance of its development ever being continued.
will you add more subdividion in the part where you can chose which continent you want to fight so that for example i want a middle eastern only battle and not the whole asian continent
i am considering it but not a priority atm
what are the system requirementsI downloaded the 2.2 windows beta (im on windows 11) and it was lagging
I have a 8gb ram 3090 system
What should i do after i download it and im on windows
I wonder that too and i'm also on windows
open the .exe file
there is no exe file
make sure you downloaded the version with a windows logo (4 squares in a 2x2 pattern) and not the linux or macos version
U should change the type of attacking , when a war starts others countries also joins , I would like it to be country vs country and when a country attacks ,the country can take some land not just annex it, change it plz
how do i start the game
I have no idea how or why but my game keeps crashing and it wont stop
And when it comes to steam will the one that baught the game here get it for free or need to rebuy it?
the game is kinda demanding atm, working on a few bigger things to reduce lag but there is no real short time fix sadly
and yea anyone who buys here will get steam keys
will there be mods/plugins?
there will be custom map support, but the base game map isn't fully done yet so want to wait for that first
will this ever be added to steam?
yes but it will take a while
great update but 2 issues:
1. you should be able to click on a country to see its name
2. still lagging A LOT
hi, will look into clicking on countries later on, also i can’t do any quick fixed for lag anymore and therefore canceled this months update to fully focus on working on subdivisions, wich will fix a lot of lag, but is a big feture that takes a long time and a lot of annoying repetetive work
I would have some suggest more: Could you have formables as when countries get certain nations (or later subdivisions maybe) could form a "new nation" such as russia making ussr or something and other thing (this is small). could nations stop war for Christmas as its mostly real such that happened in ww1 or something else.
I know this is impossible (at least very hard) but could you plan doing like after 5 years or something later counterattacks and everything like that be possible that nations would invade both each other in same time
or/and could you add that when you click a country it will show their name yellow or some color in size leaderboard
I have an idea about how to make wars more realistic, but this feature I think should be on / off in settings. You don't have to add these feature if you don't want to add or its too hard to make them, but here is it.
So there would be a leaderboard that counts the army of a nation like it does in "size leaderboard" but it does not increase when gaining territories in war in same way as "size leaderboard" (it could be increasing always based on something like population growth or after war (ill explain that later), but in war it would decline) as it would look the same as "size leaderboard" that you can see, but it would be on different numbers. The thing how it could chance the war is by when war starts it would already determine who wins the war (if there are multiple nations on any side their army strengths will be combined when counting winner), but it could also have a small chance then that the nation(s) with smaller army would win. The winner(s) will be determined by it that if the attacking nation(s) have more powerful army they will win or if defending nation(s) have they will win (in case of draw they will sing a peace treaty). Then after determining who wins it would have a normal battle but the nation(s) who/that have been determined to win would win the war. Then after war is over the winning nations will get bigger army by this equation:
(old) military + ( occupied land from nation(s) who lost / ( military leaderboard ranking / 2 ) = (new) military.
Then updates leaderboard and then peace treaty get singed with nations getting their lands.
PS: could you add that nations sing small defensive alliances that don't start a world war to get some spice to game that there will came like 2 vs 3 nations war or something like that.
PPS: You are so underrated I don't understand why. (Sorry this is so long message)
i tried something similar to having a military streangth counter for each country when working on alpha 3, but sadly wars just lasted forever and therefore ended up with the more simplified and random streangth system in alpha 3 as it's a lot easier to balance and have big changes in the wars happen while not lasting forever.
more complicated war sides and smaller wars will be added later on but want to wait until more info/data maps are done like subdivisions, ethnicities and cities
oh ok
i will most likely look more into more complicated war streangth systems, but sadly need to throw out anything i try that makes event last for too long with no clear easy way to make them faster
Sorry If this My idea does not work and sorry If this feels like im spamming but because of (atleast almost ) always agressor wins. so could you do the game leaderboard and everything but the stronger country becames agressor and wins.
or/and could add visible naval (it would look cool) it could be a dot or something
atm in alpha 3, it's 50% of either side in a 1v1 war having the advantage, and for the invaded by all event it is 100% of the invaded having a dissadvantage, but a 1 in 6 chance of it being a "controversial politician" event and therefore the one being invaded having the advantage, also during the events who got advantage do slightly change so it gives the overall advantage to the bigger countries as it takes longer time to invade and therefore have more time for the advantage to flip
i am wondering if this game will have similar things to earthroyale, such as civil wars, countries changing names, nukes, independance of countries and stuff like that.
also are the sea levels meant to go up per year or every 10 years?
yes more events is planned but most stuff won't start development until subdivisions, cities and ethnicity maps are done. and it was originally planned to be every year but changed to every 10 years, so might say the wrong thing somewhere but unsure
what are the controls because I know how to move around but I can’t seem to zoom in and out
scroll wheel, might add buttons for it in alpha 3 as i realize now everyone doesn’t have a scroll wheel
Thank you. By the way, I would like to report a bug where sometime just doesn’t pass, even if it isn’t paused, like it just stays on the same day and nothing happens.
based on previous interaction i do quickly need to ask this before i look into this, do you know that the game is semi turn based, so you need to press space to go to the next turn (unless you’re in alpha 3 pre release where i accidentally left in a unfinished auto play feature)
Ohh ok
Thank You
Do you ever plan releasing this on iOS? Like a download option on this website for it.
Phones would not be able to handle it
is ios able to handle alpha 2.2 tho?
i genuinely don't think so
there is an alpha 2.2 and alpha 1.2 apple versions or is that for MacOS
it’s macos
is there tutorial to make a game like EarthRoyale Or EuropeRoyale? just wondering because i really wanna make a game like this
not from what i know, it's really fun type of game to make but a lot of manual and annoying work
is there any tips on how to get started since idk how to use unity
I'd recommend to not start of making a game like earthroyale as it is a bit complicated for someone really new to developing games.
i went to school for game design so i don't know of too many ways to help someone learn via the internet but i do recommending starting of with something simple such as a 2D platformer, and when trying to figure out how to code stuff try to search on google for basic small components of what you wanna make and try to puzzle it together instead of looking up big things as that will make coding easier for you in the long run
good game but i would suggest less lag and more events
still super early in development so both lf those things are being worked one ^^
another question, why isnt east guyana a country in this game?
i don't know of any independent east guyanan country and can't find anything when doing quick google searches, if there is actually some form of independence movement with control please do inform me of it with some form of source, since i really can't find anything
i meant french guiana
Question, with this being in development, are updates for the original EarthRoyale cancelled?
yes, i might do some bug fixes later on but the original earthroyales core started becoming to old and too badly made as it was made when i still went to school for game development, so event the smallest changes or bug fixes ended up requiring me to rewrite like 60% of the games code
I have a suggestion, maybe add some other maps such as 1939, 1914, etc...
i am currently considering adding 1600s, 1700s, 1800s and 1900s maps, might add a 1950s too to the list, but it will have to wait until I'm done with the subdivisions, city and ethnicity/culture maps for the main modern map
How long may that take? I'll be happy if you can finish before alpha 4, also, maybe make an option to see military sizes and make military strength more realistic? cause bahrain keeps taking over india
i'm developing the game alone so it might take longer than that
k, but 1 more suggestion, ability to see military strength/size and more realistic military strength hello please answer
there is no military strength in the game, atm nothing effect what countries do what, but it's planned to have the score linked to it when i got more stuff in the game to effect score such as cities
I love this game but I have some Suggestions! Most of the time it feels like the attacker wins or at least gains land, Add a way for the player to maybe like become owner of a nation? Add Alliances, When a country gets invaded by another every other neighbor attacks the defender, I think this should be improved to like If the country is in an alliance they could both attack the country. I dont know your roadmap but I hope that some of these gets added!
hi thanks for enjoying the game <3 somethings like not always the attacking winning is being worked on and alliances are not planned but something that's being considered, currently working on more foundational things like not always attacker winning, colonizing unclaimed land, planet colonization, subdivisions and cities
This game was made by just you? If so that's impressive! I'll buy it when I have the money. It looks really beautiful!
thanks and yes, started work on it i think in one of the first 3 months this year (unsure which) so it hasn't sadly gotten super far in development, but it has so much potential and really is beautiful
hey i cant open it and I'm on Mac what do you recommend?
Since I'm not a big company or anything the game is seen as coming from a "un trusted source" so you need to go into security settings and allow the game to be opened
how is it the third version?
there is 3 games in the "series / franchise / whatever you wanna call it" 1st game is EuropeRoyale, 2nd is EarthRoyale, 3rd is EarthRoyale 3
what i need to do after i downloaded it? i can't open it.
are you on windows or mac?
Are old versions for free i would like to trzy before buying
all old versions is free while the newest is paid
is earth royale still in the works? if not, why is the full game not free
it’s not being worked on anymore and i’ve spent 3+ years working on that game and spending a shit ton of money on tools and stuff for it, why would it be free?
Is it possible for you to make a linux version of the game? If not, it's no big deal because I can just set it up to work with Proton
can attempt making one for alpha 3, but alpha 3 won’t release until the end of this month and won’t be free untill the end of next month
will i get a steam key? if i buy or can you put on steam also drew played
the game won’t be on steam untill it’s outside of alpha, so around early next year.
if you buy the 1 month early updates version you will get a key once it is released on steam