Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (PC, 2002) has an open-source reimplementation, oliverjessner/OpenEmperor, and 1 other public project.
Data checked 2026-10-12 · unbaked registry
Projects
🤴🏼 Clean-room reimplementation of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom in C++20 and SDL3. Built for modern systems, starting with Apple Silicon macOS. Early development; original game data required.
🤴🏼 Clean-room reimplementation of Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom in C++20 and SDL3. Built for modern systems, starting with Apple Silicon macOS. Early development; original game data required; repo created 2026-09-15
CANDIDATE: no reimplementation found; sibling titles (Caesar III, Pharaoh, Zeus) already reimplemented
What you need
You need your own copy of the game: these projects ship code only.
More on PC
GitHub data checked 2026-10-12. Notes are summaries from the research pass; the project pages are the authority.