You start with a small patch of land and just a few buildings you have to turn into an impressive empire. It won’t be an easy trip and weeks will pass until you achieve your goal, but it will be a nice trip. First, you’ll have to start adding houses to draw in new inhabitants. But the people in your town won’t need only housing, but also places to make them happy, so you’ll have to also build structures that generate happiness. As a golden rule of thumb, you should keep those two really close since the minimum number (either the capacity or the happiness level) decides how many people are living in your empire.
At first, buildings are easy to be build and they’re ready quite fast, but things change with time, since you’ll also need construction materials for the most complex ones, like the wonders (eight of them at the moment I’m writing this review). Also, having neighbors is vital in My Empire: some buildings, including the Wonders, require items that can only be received as gifts from neighbors, which is quite nice since it basically rises up the social level of the game even though for such a young game with so few players it might not be quite a great idea…
However, the amount of items you can build is limited in My Empire for now and except for the aforementioned things, there’s not too much for you to do in the game – things like quests, more interactions with your empire or something…
Also, the social element is not maximized as it is in games like FarmVille, for example: apart from the obligatory gift sending between empires that keeps interactions to a minimum, there’s nothing else to do: visiting one of your friends’ empires only gives you a monetary reward and you can’t do anything to help up your neighbors. However, since the game has just been launched and extra content is planned to be released in the near future, I am sure that My Empire will become more complex and even more enjoyable.
So head over to Facebook and try My Empire for yourself!