🎮 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.

Nine Gates Studio is an independent developer and self-publisher based in Istanbul. Tughra: Seals of Empire is their Steam debut, announced via the "coming soon" list and covered here from its first public showing; their site also lists a second project, Ninewrought. For press and business the studio can be reached at [email protected].