Lead your people from the Stone Age to the age of gunpowder.
How to play
Goal: destroy every rival town (walls, farms and gates don't count), or build a Wonder and keep it standing until its countdown ends.
Select with a left click, or drag a box around units. Shift adds to the selection; double-click picks every unit of that kind on screen.
Command with a right click: on the ground to move, on an enemy to attack, on trees, berries, stone or gold to gather, on a deer to hunt it, on your building site to help build, on a farm to work it, on a Town Center or tower to shelter inside. Hold Shift to queue orders one after another.
Citizens gather food, wood, stone and gold and carry it to your Town Center or a Storehouse. With citizens selected, B opens the town buildings and V the military ones. Drag to lay out a wall.
Technologies at the Town Center, Storehouse, Forge and others make your people faster and your soldiers stronger. Priests heal and convert enemies; a hero inspires the soldiers near them. The Market trades goods for gold.
Danger? Ring the town bell at the Town Center (R): citizens run inside and the Town Center shoots more arrows.
Houses make room for 5 more people. Farms never run out once the berries do.
The triangle: infantry beat cavalry, archers beat infantry, cavalry beat archers and siege. Siege engines smash buildings. Mix your army; set stances with ZXC.
Epochs: at the Town Center, advance from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, the Middle Ages, the Gunpowder Age and the Industrial Age. Every unit re-arms and every building is rebuilt in the new style.
Ships: a citizen builds a Dock on the shore (D in the town buildings). Fishing boats catch fish from the shoals and bring it back; warships rule the water and shell the coast. Right-click your transport with soldiers selected to board, then right-click a far shore to land them (U unloads where it is).
Aircraft: in the Industrial Age an Airfield trains fighters and bombers. They fly over water, woods and walls. Only missiles reach them: fighters, archers to riflemen, towers and warships.
Camera: arrow keys, the screen edges, middle-drag or Space+drag to pan; the wheel zooms; [ and ] turn the view and Backspace straightens it. Click the minimap to jump.
Keys:. next idle citizen, , your whole army, H Town Center, Ctrl+1–9 make a group and 1–9 recall it, A attack-move, Del delete, P pause, Alt shows all health bars, F10 menu.
Best on a laptop or desktop with a mouse. All sound is made live in your browser.