🎮 Tughra: Seals of Empire Game Info - Developer, Platforms & More

Tughra: Seals of Empire is a turn-based card battler by Nine Gates Studio (Istanbul, Türkiye), set in fantasy echoes of history's great empires. You promote soldiers rank by rank, take up your ruler's seal, deploy war machines, and conquer five empires — then face a hidden challenger whose identity you will not know until the end of the road. It is a fully fictional world: no real historical figures, only titles. Single-player, offline, three difficulty levels, English and Turkish interface.

A tughra is the calligraphic seal an Ottoman sultan used to sign his rule across the empire. The game generalizes that idea to all five of its empires: every ruler has seals (five each, 25 in total), you take one up before every match, and it is the power you may use every turn. Combined with the promotion tree — every deck literally grows from recruits toward the empire's strongest card — the title reads as a design statement: this is a card game about stamping your authority on the board.

Two updates landed in the first 48 hours based on early player feedback. v0.8.0 (Animation & Feel) gave every board moment motion and sound: cards fly from hand to board, attacks lunge with damage numbers, fallen units crumble to ash, and the promotion (Terfi) earns a golden burst with a fanfare. v0.8.1 (Polish) followed with fixes: music now resumes after matches, card texts no longer run under the frame or gems (checked in both English and Turkish), several screens that stayed English under the Turkish setting are now translated (Deck Builder, End Turn button, Load screen), and the unaffordable-card hover glow was removed. An opening-hand preview now shows which cards you received before the match begins.

Nine Gates Studio is a solo independent developer and self-publisher based in Istanbul — Tughra is the studio's first released game (September 28, 2026). Their second game, Ninewrought, is also out now on Steam, and a third project (Zanore) has been announced. For press and business the studio can be reached at [email protected].