Circle Empires 2 Launches Updated Demo with Stunning New Visuals
Fast-paced strategy. Ferocious monsters. Limitless replayability. The hunt is on, and will you rise as the ultimate circle slayer?
Haarlem, the Netherlands - September 22nd, 2025 Iceberg Interactive and Luminous are excited to unleash the updated demo of the real-time strategy sequel, Circle Empires 2.
Circle Empires 2 has undergone a striking visual transformation, bringing the world to life with fully redesigned biomes, enhanced animations, and a vibrant new art style that reimagines every circle in stunning detail.
Shape your destiny inside the circle of conquest, round up your forces and rule the rings. Expand your empire, one perfect circle at a time. Circle Empires 2: is a never-ending loop of strategy and war.
The new updated demo includes the following features below:
Expanded Map Sizes: The world of Circle Empires 2 just got bigger and wider. The latest demo introduces new map size formats, including 4x4 for tactical skirmishes and 12x1 for long, linear battles.
Multiplayer: Multiplayer mode will be available for players.
Monster Hunt Returns: Back by popular demand the Monster Hunt mode makes its triumphant return. Get ready to chase down terrifying bosses across the realm.
Unit Editor Upgrades: The demo now includes a new item: Boots of Speed, letting you tweak your units even further. You can now also mount units on horses and bears, or place them in towers using the unit editor.
Visual Enhancements: New designs stay true to the original visual style and characters look more expressive, grounded, and relatable.
Wolfram the Warrior: Wolfram has some new benefits from the Cheaper Terrain Changes upgrade, reducing the cost of converting land into Water. This opens up new possibilities for building moats and optimizing farmland.
Barg the Barbarian: The barbarians now have access to the Enslave ability, which allows them to extract gold from friendly units at the cost of damaging them. Additionally, Barg's starting desert area has been made richer in resources to support a faster and smoother build up of the game.
Difficulties mode: While Nightmare difficulty isn’t available in the demo, it will return in all its glory in the full version of the game.
UI: The main UI has been simplified to reduce clutter and bring it closer to the feel of Circle Empires 1.
About Circle Empires
The Circle Empires universe is made of interconnected circles, each containing loot to plunder and foes to defeat. You are the god-like leader of your tiny kingdom, hungry for power. Use your skills to hunt down increasingly powerful enemies and expand your empire. The game world changes every time you play - no two games are the same. And... you can grow pumpkins!
Key Features
- Fast-paced real-time strategic gameplay with large-scale battles
- Expand your empire, circle by circle
- Units can gain XP and level up
- Procedurally generated worlds containing unique flora and fauna
- 150+ different creatures, buildings and resources
- 18 Different faction leaders, a variety of bonuses
- 12 enemy boss monsters
- A magnificent treasury that grows with each battle
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ABOUT LUMINOUS
Luminous is an Estonian indie game company founded by developer Mihkel Trei. He's been developing games since 2002 and got the idea of Circle Empires from a famous graphic designer who said "Always start a design by drawing a circle". In 2016, Luminous partnered with Edvin Aedma, a developer on the Estonian indie hit Teleglitch: Die More Edition. Together, they decided to involve two more Estonian indie dev companies run by Edvin: Interactive Fate, to create a complete overhaul of all Circle Empires graphics, and Playtest Games, to ensure smooth production of the entire project.
ABOUT ICEBERG INTERACTIVE
Iceberg Interactive is an independent video game publisher known for many hit franchises, including Strange Horticulture, Killing Floor 2, Heroes of Valor, and Circle Empires; the company has enjoyed recent success with PC titles such as Blazing Sails, Chivalry 2, Land of the Vikings, AirportSim, and Dead Season. Iceberg Interactive has many exciting games coming up, including Strange Antiquities, Circle Empires 2, Second Sun, and Radiolight. To learn more, please visit www.iceberg-games.com.