Get ready to do some empire building, as Steam now offers Colonial Conquest, a historical strategy game from indie developer Argonauts Interactive on sale for 10% off at launch. This post follows the release with a day one patch fixing a number of issues, including game freezes. Here's word:

Colonial Conquest is a conquest simulation set in the Victorian age of warfare and expansion of the late 1800's and early 1900's. The object of the game is to become the dominant major power throughout the world. Players can be one among six of the great powers of the time: Great Britain, Germany, France, USA, Japan or Russia.