Empyre: Lords of the Sea Gates sets sail on its Neo-Victorian water world on October 4

Transit problems are the last thing New Yorkers have to worry about in Empyre: Lord of the Sea Gates. The first effort from indie studio Coin Operated Games plunges players into an action role-playing game set in a Neo-Victorian New York that’s flooded. It comes out for PC later this year on October 4.

Set in an alternate timeline during the 1910s, Empyre tasks players with surviving a city that’s attempting to rebuild after an environmental catastrophe that’s flooded most of the world. It’s an isometric RPG that combines turn-based strategy and real-time combat.