Just like many other city-building, My Empire has all the elements of it. The game starts with a little patch of land and a limited number of people which are given to you to construct your city. The game is really easy, or more clearly put, couldn’t be easier. The goal of the game is to enlarge your city and make your people happy. In order to do that, you have to have your men collect and manage different resources which will be used to construct your capital city. When your people’s satisfaction is getting low, you have to make them happy by building leisure building, such as baths, straw guard towers, temples, embassies, courts, workshops, blacksmith and so on.

All these things are crammed in other city-building games, however there are always reasons explaining this game spreads on its own word-of-mouth. The most obvious feature distinguishing My Empire from other city-building games, such as Social City and Simcity, is its superb graphics whose theme is a take on ancient Greece and Rome, and all the in-game advisers and characters are dressed in Togas with leaves adoring their hair.

This game is much similar to my favorite Facebook games: City of Wonder and Dragons of Atlantis, which require you collect taxes, hire workers and build empires.

Another feature of the game lies in one of its tasks. Once you got a stable population, you will be assigned to build “Wonders” which are based on real world landmarks, such as Stone Henge, Sphinx, Pyramids, the Great Lighthouse, the Colossus of Rhodes, Hanging Gardens, Victory Arch, and Parthenon. Finishing these “Wonders” can bring you with incredible amounts of fame, of course at great cost of time and money, as well as resources, including wood, bronze, stone, and tar. You can get most of these materials from the workshops you build, but except one which you can only obtain from your friend. So it is strongly recommended that you invite and interact with your friends, as you’re basically prohibited from progressing without the help of others.

The last interesting feature of My Empire is that players are allowed to hire “Tax Collectors” who collects coins based on players’ current population. This should be an easy way to generate income but apparently the tax system is poor designed which contributes to the irritation of it.

The flaw of the tax system is not the only niggling problem. The game sometimes goes levels at a time without giving you a new goal to pursue. But surely this will change over time.

Despite its niggling problems, My Empire is still perfect for people to relax as a Facebook game about relaxation, letting you play for as little or long as you like.