A Vampire Strategy Game of Citadels, Heroes & Covens
Raise a vampire empire, command powerful heroes, develop specialized armies, and contend with rivals across a living gothic world.
Free to install. Internet connection required. Optional in-app purchases. Rated Teen for Violence and Blood; users interact.
Shape a Vampire Empire
Nightborn Empire combines city building, resource management, hero development, army strategy, dark Research, equipment forging, and social cooperation. Every system feeds the same long-term goal: developing a Citadel and the power surrounding it without reducing the experience to a single combat screen or hero roster.
Build Your Citadel
Develop the Citadel and its economy, military, Research, defense, hero, and Coven support buildings.
Command Vampire Heroes
Recruit distinct leaders, raise their levels and Ascension, choose talents, form one active Bond, and equip regalia.
Train Specialized Armies
Field Brutes, Blood Reavers, and Night Stalkers across complementary battle rows and ten troop tiers.
Master Dark Research
Plan connected Dominion, War, Bloodcraft, and Shadow branches around the bottleneck facing your empire.
March Across the World
Gather resources, hunt mercenaries, scout rivals, reinforce allies, launch rallies, and contest objectives.
Rise with a Coven
Create or join a Coven, coordinate with other rulers, help timers, reinforce positions, and pursue shared power.
Enter the World of Nightborn Empire
This first-party cinematic preview introduces the ruined capital, strategy table, vampire forces, and the march toward the Sable Court.
Read the cinematic description
A gothic stronghold stands beneath a blood-red night as its defenses are threatened. Vampire commanders gather over a strategy table, Nightborn forces depart the Citadel, and the road opens toward the Sable Court—the center of power that every rising ruler must understand.
How This Gothic Strategy Game Plays
Empire building: Your Citadel establishes the pace of progression. Regular buildings produce resources, train troops, treat wounded forces, protect reserves, support heroes, unlock Research, and satisfy future Citadel prerequisites.
Vampire heroes: Heroes are strategic leaders rather than the whole game. Their roles, talents, Ascension, Bond benefits, and equipment affect the marches they lead while the wider empire determines what those marches can sustain.
World strategy: The persistent map turns distance and commitment into decisions. A hero and army sent to gather, reinforce, rally, or fight remain unavailable until their work and return are complete.
Cooperative play: Covens connect players through chat, timer help, rallies, reinforcements, and shared objectives. Strong cooperation improves what an individual ruler can attempt and how quickly a group can respond.
Long-term progression: Research, buildings, troop tiers, equipment, materials, and events create parallel paths. The useful choice is the one that removes the current constraint rather than raising every number equally.
Dark fantasy identity: The strategy is framed by vampire courts, blood-forged armies, forbidden archives, gothic cities, rival rulers, and a world shaped by eternal night.
Game Facts
Start Your Reign
New rulers can begin with the complete official how-to, then move from Citadel development into armies, world activity, heroes, and equipment.
Free to install. Internet connection required. Optional in-app purchases. Rated Teen for Violence and Blood; users interact.