Built for DMG
Pure original Game Boy action: tiny sprites, a tile map, and slow real-time decisions.
Original Game Boy RTS
Empire Boy
War in your pocket.
Build!
Raise houses, barracks, towers, stables, and a working economy.
Command!
Drive villagers, rally armies, counter units, and pause when the fight gets hot.
Conquer!
Advance to Castle age and raze the enemy Town Centre before they raze yours.
Insert cartridge
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Keyboard controls: arrows for D-pad, Z for B, X for A, Shift for Select, Enter for Start.
Ready
Empire Boy.gb
Press the button to load the cartridge.
Grey plastic. Green screen. Real strategy.
Cartridge edition coming soon
Empire Boy is being readied for a physical cartridge release: a pocket-sized real-time strategy war machine you can slot into original hardware.
Original hardware
Box-art label
Physical cartridge
Back-of-box claims
Way more strategy than the screen has any right to hold
Pick a civ
Picts turtle, Lombards pressure, and Alans move fast. The AI counters your choice.
Age up
Reach Castle age for archers, cavalry, higher blacksmith tiers, and a permanent attack boost.
Defend hard
Towers and garrisoned Town Centres turn panic into a proper last stand.
16 population. 32 by 32 tiles. One enemy town centre.
A tiny war machine
Queue units, repair battered buildings, set rally points, harvest finite resources, and command your army to victory.
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