Eressea
Eressea is an open-ended multi-player computer moderated fantasy turn-based strategy game world for any number of players. Players interact with the game via email.
Eressea
- Date
- 1996
- Genre
- turn-based strategy video game
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Eressea is an open-ended multi-player computer moderated fantasy turn-based strategy game world for any number of players. Players interact with the game via email.
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• Title — Eressea • Developer — Eressea • Designer — Enno Rehling, Christian Schlittchen, Katja Zedel • Released — 1996 8 27 • Genre — Turn-based strategy • Modes — Multi player • Platforms — Cross-platform, E-mail
Gameplay
Gameplay
The game world is populated by many races and monsters. It consists mainly of player-populated islands separated by oceans, and players control a growing number of units of a given race to build empires, armies and fleets. Like most open-ended games, Eressea has no declared objective, it cannot be "won". It is possible to start playing even now, years into the game, and while some players have been playing their empire for many years, several new ones join every turn. Playing is free, although signups for German players (who make up 80% of the population of Eressea) have now been tied to a donation for an animal conservation charity.
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Development
The game was originally based on a very early version of Atlantis, but has been developed since 1996 independently of the original. The game is internationalized with support for English- and German-language play.
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