inspired and created by fans of classics like Empire at War, Descending Empires aims to bring new revolutionary features to the RTS genre

enter the strategic table, forge strategies and destroy your enemy - together with your team.

control your own fleets of spaceships in this massive multiplayer rts

HARDPOINTS/ABILITIES

• ships have parts/hardpoints, like shield generators, engines, weapons and more

• ships have abilities creating unique combat interactions (like firing a special superweapon on board or activating certain parts/functions of the ship

DOCKING/INVENTORY/TRADING SYSTEM

• your ships, planets and spacestations have an inventory, allowing trading between planets and stations

• board other ships and stations with your ground troops to take them over

• salvage destroyed ships and sell the scrap metal for money

VERTICALITY

• the game allows ships to move on the y axis allowing verticality opening up new strategies like building a planetary blockade

PHYSIC BASED UNITS / COLLISIONS

• the spaceships are physic based and can collide

ENERGY SYSTEM

• you have 3 energy slider for (big) ships, engine power, weapon power and shield power, control those to best manage your energy (if hardpoints for said functions are destroyed, they disappear)

RANKS / TEAMPLAY

• players can increase their ranks by playing, winning rounds AND executing orders from higher ranking players. higher ranking players can give orders and lock capital ships to only be controlled by them (all other units are controlled by your whole team)

  

MODS
the game is heavily mod based allowing unique new player made factions