The Atari ST version of the game was reviewed in 1988 in Dragon #131 by Hartley, Patricia, and Kirk Lesser in "The Role of Computers" column. While stating that the UI was "not as good as I'd like", he concluded that Empire "tempts you to play a little longer and find out what's going to happen next". Jerry Pournelle of BYTE also agreed about the addictiveness. The magazine also praised the UI, and concluded "this is a superb, addictive game". Compute! agreed with the warning on the game box of its addictiveness, stating that the game combined aspects of exploration and strategy.
The game would later receive the magazine's "Game of the Year" award for 1988 in 1989 the magazine named Empire to its Hall of Fame for games readers rated highly over time, with a final score of 9.71 out of 12, in 1990 readers voted for the game as their "All-Time Favorite", a 1991 magazine survey of strategy and war games gave it four and a half stars out of five, and a 1993 survey in the magazine gave the game three stars out of five.
In its review of the game, Computer Gaming World noted the improved UI, saying "the playability of an already successful system has been significantly enhanced". Starting around 1987, Empire: Wargame of the Century on the Atari ST, Amiga, Commodore 64, Apple II, Macintosh, and IBM PC was produced. After writing to many software companies (including Broderbund, Sirius Software, Simon & Schuster, Sublogic, Epyx, and MicroProse), he licensed the game to a small software company named Interstel, who hired Mark Baldwin to add a graphical user interface. With low commercial expectations, he submitted an announcement to January 1984 BYTE Magazine's "Software Received" section, and received a flood of orders. Walter Bright recoded the game Empire in C on an IBM PC.
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