How Empires Work Steam page analysis
View on Steam ↗Capsule 85Page copy 87Screenshots 94Setup 68checked 2026-11-02
Similar games: screenshots 54/255 · 1 trailers · 10 languages
How Empires WorkCrow Cottage · 20 tags · 10 screenshotsSection scores weights from methodology v1
Compare with the best pages in its genre: Simulation & Management · Strategy · Idle & Incremental
Side by side with the 3 games Steam shows next to it, section by section. Free, shareable link.
The score measures. The Player Jury puts your capsules in a real-size Steam list in front of 300 genre players. In development, $19 per test.
Fixes, ranked by estimated impact 2 ISSUES
lowNo Discord link+5 pts
No Discord link found on the store page.
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lowBroad tags rank above your real genre+1 pts
Top five tags include Strategy.
Encourage players to tag your real genre, and use your developer tags on the specific ones.
How you look on Steam
Measured at 231 × 87: brightness 146/255, contrast 56, colorfulness 54, 2% near-black pixels.
Store copy short 80 · long 98
Short description · 260 / 300An incremental grand strategy game about building the machinery of empire. Tax, trade, conquer, and civilise subjects and foreigners alike. Automate it all into institutions that run themselves across centuries of history. Her Imperial Majesty expects results.
A rewritten draft built from your own words is in the full report.
Screenshot audit measured brightness, store order
Steam shows 4 to 5 thumbnails before the arrow. Red = near-black (under 30/255), amber = dark (under 45).
First five screenshots vs the games Steam shows next to you average brightness, 0–255
Trailer, tags and setup
- warnTop five tags include Strategy.
- warn6 languages; similar games support 10.
- warnNo community links on the page.
- ok1 trailers.
- okDemo available on a Coming Soon page.
- okAll 20 tag slots used.
- ok15 GIFs or clips in the long description.
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1.3% of impressions become visits. Below 2% usually means the capsule doesn't read at small size.
What's working
- ✓ All 20 tag slots used
- ✓ 15 GIFs or clips in the description
- ✓ Short description uses 260 of 300 characters
- ✓ Capsule stands out at small size
Pricing the score is always free · no account · 5 checks a day
- ✓ Score + 9 sections
- ✓ Measured screenshots
- ✓ Funnel diagnosis
- ✓ Top 4 fixes
- ✓ All fixes, ranked
- ✓ Description draft
- ✓ Screenshot order
- ✓ Tag plan + checklist
- ✓ 300+ genre players
- ✓ Real-size Steam list
- ✓ Written reasons
- ✓ 48 hours
- ✓ Daily re-score
- ✓ Neighbor alerts
- ✓ 1 jury test a month
- ✓ 3 games
Scored with methodology v1. A higher score means a clearer page, not guaranteed sales.