Open now · By request
Ordinary Empires playtest
by Kattwinkel IT & Games
Shape a life and build a legacy. Explore walkable 3D neighbourhoods, plan your days, run businesses and nurture relationships. Bring family and business together in a life simulation spanning generations, with German and English interfaces.
It's free to ask. The developer chooses who gets in.
- Access
- By request
- On playtest since
- Oct 20, 2026
- Planned release
- To be announced
- Developer
- Kattwinkel IT & Games
- Platforms
- Windows
- Players
- Single-player
- Languages
- English, German
How to join the Ordinary Empires playtest
- Open the game's Steam page with the Request access button. Sign in to Steam if it asks.
- Request access to the Ordinary Empires playtest there. It's free and doesn't commit you to anything.
- The developer lets players in, often in batches, so it can take a while. Steam emails you when you're in, and the playtest appears in your library.
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How AI is used
Generative AI was used to create Steam store, library and application artwork and to assist with the store descriptions. Gameplay screenshots are captured from the game. No generative AI runs during gameplay, and the game does not connect to an external AI service.
The developer's own words, from Steam.
About Ordinary Empires
One life. Many decisions. Your legacy.
Ordinary Empires combines life simulation and business management across generations. Start on your first day at school, develop your skills, choose your career and decide what you will leave to your family.
Your city is the starting point
Move your character through walkable 3D neighbourhoods with shops, workplaces, a park and a waterfront. Rotate the camera, select buildings or familiar people, and plan suitable activities when you reach them. Animated residents move through the neighbourhoods. The city is your main view; action menus and the life journal open detailed management screens.
Plan your everyday life
Schedule school, learning, work, rest and time together in your weekly calendar. Energy, stress, money and available time shape your choices. Conversations, walks and shared activities build closeness and memories. Set your own pace: pause to plan or advance a single day.
Build your businesses
Found companies, hire staff and match contracts to your capacity. Manage costs, income, locations and business relationships. Work and business are connected to your personal life: growth takes money, time and people.
Connect family and wealth
Meet people, nurture relationships and start a family. Manage savings, loans and investments. Prepare your succession and pass wealth and businesses to the next generation. Without a successor, your dynasty ends. Your chronicle records important decisions and experiences.
- Single-player life simulation from childhood to the next generation.
- Walkable 3D neighbourhoods with a rotating camera and location-based actions.
- Weekly planning, education, careers and relationships with lasting consequences.
- Businesses with staff, contracts, capacity and financial decisions.
- Family, inheritance and succession.
- German and English interfaces, with mouse and keyboard controls.
Development and closed beta
Ordinary Empires is in development. The closed beta will help test the introduction, controls and the connection between everyday life and business. Access is granted in stages; signing up does not guarantee an immediate place. The current version focuses on neighbourhood exploration and life and business simulation. Walkable interiors and a free building mode are not yet included.
From the game's Steam page.
