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Empire Earth 2: The Design of the Futuristic Capitals.

Empire Earth 2, the successful sequel to Empire Earth turned 20 years in April 2025. However, this game has become obscure while the original is having an active community on YouTube and Reddit. This site seeks to remedy that and provide more context to understand the beauty of this amazing game. Empire Earth 2 is a more strategic game than the original, but it is no less amazing in its gameplay and graphics.

Empire Earth 2 is a game that seeks to overtake its predecessor, and it was quite successful at release. However, the video game industry recently has been focusing on retrenchment over new games. The sequel has been languishing in obscurity. The game is well worth one’s time to play and there is a simple reason for it: the aesthetics of its future ages.

In Empire Earth, there were three future ages but they were underdeveloped. Even in the Space Age, introduced in Empire Earth: The Art of Conquest was somewhat of a letdown and wasn’t as interesting as it could have been.

Empire Earth 2 gives much more character to the future ages than in the original game.

What I appreciated the most was the effort put into the Asian capital buildings in the game. The screenshot above is the Asian Capital building in the Genetic Age.

While Empire Earth 2 may not be most advanced game now, one can see the great efforts in the way how the developers were approaching this game.

I wish the video game industry still would have this level of respect for details and efforts when making their virtual experiences for the players.

Tainted Grail reaches 55,000 Stream views

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Tainted Grail has now been out for a day and it is clear that the game is going to gaining popularity. On Twitch specifically, the game is boasting some impressive numbers for an independently made game without a huge publisher behind it. According to the picture that I have attached here, the game got over 55,000 viewers on Twitch streams.

How does this compare to other games?

The closest comparison is the Obsidian developed game, Avowed, which came out earlier this year. That game was largely seen as a failure as its player base basically abandoned it in favor of other titles such as Kingdom Come 2 or Oblivion Remastered Edition which had much higher player counts in comparison to it.

As you can clearly see, Avowed had more players watching at its peak in February. However, the game basically has hardly any viewers now. The game also only has about 500 players playing it now. In comparison, Kingdom Come 2: Deliverance is still having a healthy 20,000 players peak on the weekends, which shows the staying power of this game.

Why is Tainted Grail Twitch Streams so low in comparison to other RPGs?

This game is not a mainstream release. While the game’s studios, Questline and Awaken Realms has published it, there are still hurdles. In a market as saturated with games as the Steam marketplace, Tainted Grail has to stand out from the competition. Oblivion Remastered is taking traffic away for sure and I am not surprised it has been performing so well with players.

Tainted Grail is an independent title in the truest sense. It hasn’t been picked up by any major publishing companies, which means that word of mouth is going to what helps this game become a success.

The three main areas for Tainted Grail to get attention are:

Steam
YouTube
Twitch

These three social media platforms are the main places where the awareness around the game can grow.

Currently, the game is looking quite strong for an independent Skyrim coming out of the Republic of Poland. Hopefully, it is not an Avowed but a true spiritual sequel to the Elder Scrolls.

Polish Skyrim: Tainted Grail Sales and Twitch Impact

Polskiego Skyrima, The Polish Skyrim has arrived to shake up Video Games

Poland has shown itself to be a powerhouse in the making of video games with the release of the RPG, Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon.

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon initial sales

The Arthurian Dark Fantasy game has been released to the world, and it has some impressive sales. The stats that I have put on the top of this blog post show the estimations of how many sales the game currently has right now.

According to the most estimates, it should be at about 150,000 copies sold already which is great for a game of this size.

The game has barely been out and is currently sitting at a healthy review ratio of very positive on Steam. The game is currently sitting at 84% on Steam, which is very positive.

The recent reviews, which represent the reviews relating to Version 1.0, have been also consistent with the early access reviews.

What is important is that the game is getting attention by streamers on Twitch and YouTubers and that will help this game in the sales.

The player count right now is about 12,000 players. I would expect that Tainted Grail is going to be getting more players in the future and it is not going stagnate.

Tainted Grail and Twitch performance

In the mid afternoon on release, the Twitch numbers are good for a independent title such as this.

Many of the players are a great of mix of Americans, British and Eastern Europeans. There is quite a few of people who are Polish and enjoying that their country had made another great video game in the style of the Witcher.