Circle Empires

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• Announcements·10 Feb 2026Official

  Circle Empires 2: The Sequel is Out Now!

  Ready for another round?Circle Empires 2 is out now on Steam, with a 15% launch discount! We’re incredibly excited to finally share the next chapter of the Circle Empires series with you. Step into a world of interconnected circles filled with dangerous enemies, rival players, and plenty of resources worth fighting over. Build your forces, defeat powerful bosses, and adapt to circular worlds that shift and surprise you from match to match.For Circle Empires 2, we focused on strengthening what made the original games special while pushing the systems further. You can customize units through the editor, plan your town layouts more deliberately, experiment with mounted units, and experience improved unit physics that make battles feel more dynamic and alive.If you enjoy Circle Empires 2, please consider leaving a Steam review. It genuinely helps a small studio like ours and makes a real difference in helping more players discover the game. And if you happen to run into technical issues along the way, feel free to report them on the forums or via our Discord so we can take a look.We’re looking forward to seeing your strategies, your victories, and the wonderfully strange units you come up with.Whether you’ve spent countless hours conquering circles already or you’re jumping in for the first time, we hope Circle Empires 2 keeps you coming back for just one more round.See you in the circles, Luminous
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• Announcements·22 Jan 2026Official

  Circle Empires 2: Our Sequel is out February, 9th!

  Prepare your defenses, sharpen your blades, and get ready to return to the circles.Circle Empires 2 launches on February 9th, 2026. Watch the date announcement trailer below: We’re excited to share the release date for the next entry in the Circle Empires series. Since revealing the sequel in November 2024, we’ve been working to build on what made the original games special, with community feedback guiding many of the decisions along the way. Through demos and playtests, we’ve refined the look and feel of Circle Empires 2 to better capture the spirit of the series while still pushing it forward. The result is a sequel that stays true to fast-paced circle conquest, while offering more freedom in how you play. Whether you’re coming back after many hours with the original games or revisiting the circles for the first time in a while, we’re looking forward to welcoming you on February 9th. See you in the circles, Luminous ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Circle Empires TwitterFacebookIceberg Interactive TwitterFacebookYouTubeSteam Publisher Page
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• Community & Events·24 Jan 2025Official

  Circle Empires: Celebrating Our Favourite RTS' During Steam's RTS Fest!

  Hey everyone, We’re ecstatic to be a part of Steam's Real-Time Strategy Fest, along with a wealth of other amazing RTS games! Real-Time Strategy games have been around since the early 1990s and we’re honoured to be listed among, and to have played around with, this diverse genre with the Circle Empires series. With Circle Empires 2 on the horizon, we thought it’d be a fun idea to dive into a few RTS games from the past & present that have been a huge inspiration for the Circle Empires series. Here’s Mikhel Trei, developer at Luminous, on some of his personal favourites: My favourite RTS games are Warcraft 3, Age of Empires 1 & 2, Total Annihilation, and Command & Conquer: Red Alert. To me, Warcraft 3 has the best 4-player Free For All mode in any RTS. What makes it so good for me, is the fact that it is reliant on heroes, who gain power by fighting. This provides a unique incentive to engage in battles during Free For All games, which otherwise reward passive play and result in stale games when players play correctly. Age of Empires 1 and 2 are what I grew up with. I've probably played through AOE1’s Rise of Rome expansion demo campaign a thousand times as a kid, because I didn't have the full version of the game. Age of Empires 2 places you in this incredibly engaging fantasy of being a medieval king and I used to play the 1v7 single-player mode quite a lot. Total Annihilation is one of the first RTS I ever came across. I remember seeing it at a friend's place and being mesmerised. It has a fantastic unit command system, great 3D spacial physics, a wide array of units and so much more. It did require a beefy computer for its time and it's overall a bit less intuitive than other, non-SciFi RTSs (Just because you're in the future and don't have horses and men with sharp sticks that are self-explanatory). But like.. sea planes that can land underwater and flying builders that create cannons that shoot on the other side of map… This game is just great. I feel like for ...
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• Announcements·19 Dec 2024Official

  Happy Holidays from Luminous!

  Hey everyone, As we continue our work on developing Circle Empires 2, we want to take a moment to wish you all Happy Holidays from the team here at Luminous! {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/33019783/a7a7152f646a8f2b78bb0191820c6958fcb9f8c8.png This holiday season, we're offering a special treat for our Circle Empires fans: a limited-time 80% discount on the original Circle Empires! If you want to go back to the game that started the circle-conquering frenzy, or want to introduce a friend to our little circular RTS, now is the perfect opportunity to do so. We hope to see you all in a very promising 2025 and we can’t wait to show you what we’ve been cooking up. Happy holidays! Luminous ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40202656/66256ed5a46672fee40b16be075a49ba63112022.jpg Circle Empires Twitter Facebook Iceberg Interactive Twitter Facebook YouTube Steam Publisher Page
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• Announcements·6 Dec 2024Official

  Circle Empires 2: Your burning questions answered!

  Hey everyone, In case you’ve missed it: we’ve announced the next entry in the Circle Empires series! In case you haven’t missed it: how excited are you about the fact that we’ve announced the next entry in the Circle Empires series!?!?!?! Reading all of your enthusiasm about Circle Empires 2 is such a huge motivator. We’ll be hard at work, creating a worthy new entry in the series that you all know and love. After the announcement, some of you had some burning questions about the new look and features of the game. That’s why we’ve put together a post-announcement FAQ blog on the CE2 store page. If you have any other questions that we haven’t tackled in the blog, you can always ask them in the comment section or on the Iceberg Interactive Discord. Oh, and in case you haven’t done so yet, make sure to wishlist and follow Circle Empires 2 to stay up to date with the development! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3093020/Circle_Empires_2/ We’ll be back with more news once we’re ready to share them! Luminous ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40202656/66256ed5a46672fee40b16be075a49ba63112022.jpg Circle Empires Twitter Facebook Iceberg Interactive Twitter Facebook YouTube Steam Publisher Page
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