Art Empires 0.27.0: A wall on the galleries, ten more levels, and stores that tell you when

Sep 20, 2026

Art Empires 0.27.0 is live. The Overgrown Galleries stand behind a Town Wall from level 6 and run to level 20, every city store says how long it has before it fills or becomes worth raiding, and an account that signed up with Google can connect DeviantArt.

  • From level 6, the Overgrown Galleries defend themselves behind a Town Wall, five levels below the gallery's own. Level 11 is the first whose wall is tall enough to stop a flier. The island's gallery box tells you the wall you are walking into, and a replay shows the wall the match was played against.
  • The Overgrown Galleries now run to level 20, each level built around one strategy laid on top of the last, with a new deck master from level 16 and two Legendary cards at 20. A level opens by itself once every card it fields is in the pool.
  • Every resource bar in a city carries a countdown: how long until the stock passes the amount a raid cannot take, how long until the Storehouse is full, or how long until coffee runs out when it is being drunk faster than it grows. The bar's tooltip carries both crossings.
  • Beside a city's stocks is its Storehouse line: the levels it has, the room they hold and how much of that is safe from a raid. The city page, every building page, My empire, the Capitol Building and the Statehouse all say it the same way.
  • Your advisor now asks you to connect DeviantArt once you have chosen a starter deck, and to submit a piece once you are connected. Neither pays, and Not now takes either away for good.
  • A Shipping Office sells one paid supply line for each level it has reached: one at level 1, two at level 2. Your empire's free coffee line is never counted against that.
  • The upgrade panel for a Shipping Office prints what the next level buys: how much it can send a day, and how many paid lines it sells.
  • The steampunk buildings no longer sit in a pale smear on a dark page, and the steampunk Shipping Office is redrawn in the slate, copper and brass the rest of that art style is painted in.
  • An account that signed up with Google can connect DeviantArt. It confirms with Google in place of the password it never had.
  • Confirming where your first city goes takes you to that city. It used to leave you on the empire overview.
  • Your advisor stops suggesting a Shipping Office for a Coffee Shop that already stands on a coffee island and needs nothing shipped to it.

Art Empires is my city-building empire game you play in your browser, and every card in it is a deviation submitted by the artist who made it. Play Art Empires at ArtEmpires.com, or read the full changelog.