Pie Labs Products

Original products, built in the lab.

Alongside our studio work, we make products of our own—focused ideas shaped through design, engineering, and a lot of patient iteration. Empires is the first world we are ready to share.

Catalogue 01 One world in active development Games · Tools · Experiments

Meet Empires.

A strategy game about the distance between placing the first timber frame and looking out across a kingdom that grew from it.

In active development

Empires

Begin with a settlement. Build a kingdom.

Empires is a real-time strategy, city-building, and kingdom-building game about guiding a small settlement towards a realm of its own. Shape the land, direct your people, manage the resources behind every decision, and watch a living world grow around the choices you make.

Handcrafted pixel-art people, buildings, and vegetation live inside a dimensional landscape of rolling terrain, water, changing light, and distant mountains. The result is a 2.5D style that keeps the warmth and readability of classic strategy games while giving every settlement a real sense of place.

  • Real-time strategy
  • City builder
  • Kingdom builder
  • 2.5D world
Empires settlement at sunset in a broad 3D landscape, with workers, trees, timber construction frames, and distant mountains
The current direction of Empires: readable settlement activity in the foreground, with terrain, changing light, and distant horizons carrying the world far beyond it.

How the world was built.

Every product has its own development journal here. Empires begins with the complete story of its largest transformation.