Grow an economy
City levels increase production and defensive value. Gold funds upgrades, scouting, and strategic items, while troops defend holdings and carry out marches.
A living medieval campaign
Your kingdom is more than one castle
Crownlands is a real-time browser strategy game about building a network of cities, reading the map, and choosing which battles are worth the march.
A shared world shaped by its rulers
Every Crownlands campaign begins with a main city, a small force, and room to grow. Cities generate troops and gold over time. Their levels determine their economic value, defensive strength, and importance to the wider realm. Players expand across connected island regions rather than following a fixed sequence of levels, so the map changes as cities are claimed, lost, reinforced, and rebuilt.
The world is persistent. Marches continue toward their destination, reports preserve the result of scouting and combat, and production earned while a player is away is reconciled when that player returns. The game is designed around short decisions that contribute to a longer campaign: upgrading a border city, moving troops before an attack, protecting the main city, or helping a clan member hold strategic ground.
What players do
Gather intelligence
Scouts reveal recent information about a target. Battle and scout reports help rulers compare city troops, walls, bonuses, and likely outcomes before committing an army.
Control the map
Neutral cities offer an early foothold. Rival cities, resource camps, Strongholds, and the Crown Citadel create larger objectives as a kingdom becomes established.
Strategy comes from tradeoffs
Power in Crownlands is distributed across a realm. Concentrating troops can create a formidable army but leave distant cities exposed. Spending gold on upgrades improves future production and defenses, while keeping gold available preserves flexibility for scouting, regrouping, or items. A fast march may seize an opportunity, but a poorly scouted attack can consume troops that took hours to produce.
Hero levels award skill points that specialize a kingdom. Skills can strengthen outgoing attacks, city walls, production, upgrade efficiency, travel speed, or the recovery of battle losses. Strongholds provide map-based advantages, while the Crown Citadel is a visible contest for control and a record of cumulative reigns. These systems reward planning without making any single city or bonus the whole game.
Clans and cooperative defense
Clans give rulers a way to coordinate beyond individual borders. Members can communicate, compare progress, and reinforce allied holdings. Reinforcement troops remain attributed to their sender and can be recalled, sent home by the holding owner, or lost in battle. This makes cooperation useful without erasing ownership or responsibility for each army.
The most valuable targets encourage shared planning. A clan may help a member secure a Stronghold, prepare several defensive positions, or challenge the current Citadel ruler. Crownlands records important server actions so that shared outcomes are resolved consistently for every player.
Built for the open web
Crownlands runs in a modern browser and can be installed as a progressive web app on supported devices. The interface is designed for landscape play, with a regional map, compact resource displays, and focused panels for cities, reports, clans, skills, and inventory. Account sign-in preserves a kingdom across sessions and lets the server validate multiplayer actions.
The game is actively maintained. Economy values, protection rules, map objectives, and interface details may be adjusted to keep campaigns readable and fair. Material rules are documented in the public player guide and game rules so players can understand the systems before signing in.
Advertising and player choice
Crownlands does not place display advertising on its login, navigation, alert, error, or other utility screens. If optional rewarded advertising is enabled in the future, it will require a deliberate player choice and will disclose the exact in-game reward before an advertisement begins. Closing or failing to complete a rewarded advertisement grants nothing, and declining an advertisement does not block normal play.
Public information pages exist to explain the game, not to surround thin or automated content with advertisements. Read the Privacy Policy for information about account, gameplay, hosting, and advertising data.