Empires of Steel was reviewed in the July 2010 edition of Armchair General magazine, giving it 4 out of 5 stars.

Notable Changes:
- Added an image-editor, which lets players add their own unit-images/animations to the game
- - Right now, these unit-images only work locally. They don’t get uploaded if players upload their ruleset.
- Reduced the game’s memory use
- Bumped up the infantry defense value slightly to make them more useful against tanks
- Added unit descriptions to [...]

Notable changes and fixes:
- Changed the behavior of the unit-orders window behavior - it doesn’t show if you click a city/unit in the left-panel
- Added Unit HP to the unit-orders window
- Added ‘All Players Are Permanently At War’ option to the New Game / Rules Modifiers
- Units get automatically named when they are created.
- Added [...]