real-time strategy
Perimeter: Emperor's Testament
By K-D Lab, released 1 Jan 2005
- Microsoft Windows
What it is
Perimeter: Emperor's Testament is a real-time strategy game by K-D Lab that expands the story of the original Perimeter through a single-player campaign. Its setting follows the collapse of an Exodus carrying human civilization through the Psychosphere, a chain of hostile worlds linked by portals. The factions have different aims: the Harkbacks search for the old Earth, while the Empire believes humanity should remain in the Chain of Worlds. Their conflict has become a war spanning many worlds. The Emperor builds an empire with automatic bases called Vice Frames and secretly creates a Mechanical Spirit to help discover new worlds. The game’s listed Steam features include single-player, multiplayer, Steam Cloud and Family Sharing. It is listed for Windows, and its Steam genre is Strategy. The facts describe the campaign as an expansion of the original game’s story; they do not specify additional campaign mechanics.
What players like, and what they don't
- Single-player campaign expands the original story
- Multiplayer is listed
- Steam Cloud support
- Science-fiction setting spans the Chain of Worlds
- Windows is the only listed platform
- The listed campaign is single-player
Who it suits
It suits players who want a strategy game with a single-player campaign set in a science-fiction conflict between factions with opposing visions for humanity. The listed multiplayer feature may also interest players looking for multiplayer play.
Perimeter: Emperor's Testament adds a campaign to the original Perimeter’s science-fiction setting, with the Empire and Harkbacks at war over humanity’s future. Its feature list includes both single-player and multiplayer, with Windows as the listed platform.
