An ancient 4X, free, in your browser
Explore, expand, exploit, exterminate: the four “X”s of the great strategy games. Dynastoria brings them to the world of Antiquity, on a map where time passes even when you are away.
Explore
The world map is huge: meadows, steppes, deserts, forests, mountains, coasts and rivers, with day, night and four seasons. Your armies discover ruins to search, temples, barbarian camps, multi-room dungeons, trading cities and wonders.
Monster groups range from level 1, near the nations' cities, to level 25 far away. A magnifying glass finds those of the level you are looking for; the minimap shows the world in the colors of the four nations.
Expand
Your city grows through four ages, from the Wild Age to the Imperial Age: seventeen buildings, twenty-four levels. Around it, your region and its plots.
On the map, your missionaries win tiles: your nation's territory grows tile by tile, as far as your sanctuary allows. Your armies hold temples for your nation, and wonders are taken with several armies.
Exploit
Five resources run the empire: food (which also feeds the army), wood, stone, metal and gold. Farms, sawmills, quarries and mines are placed on your region's plots; your merchants sell your surplus in trading cities; the Workshop, the Academy and the Training Grounds open research.
The seasons change everything: each one brings its bonuses and penalties, and a starving army ends up deserting.
Exterminate
Monsters, barbarian camps and dungeons are taken by force; the toughest require a rally, up to ten armies setting out together. Raiders sometimes march on your city: intercept them, or let your walls and your garrison receive them.
Every battle is played on a tactical board, turn by turn, heroes against monsters. Battles between players arrive with the next versions of the shared world.
A 4X not quite like the others
In a classic 4X, everyone plays in turn. In Dynastoria, time moves forward for everyone at once: a construction takes time, an army marches, and you come back whenever you like. Only the battles are played turn by turn.
Heroes play a big part: more than 140, six rarities, spells, up to five awakening stars. And all you need is a browser to play, on PC or on mobile.
Questions
Is Dynastoria a real 4X game?
It takes up the four pillars: explore the world map, expand your city and your nation's territory, exploit five resources, fight monsters, barbarians and dungeons. But time does not move in turns: constructions and marches last in real time, as in online strategy games. Only battles are played turn by turn.
Do I need to know 4X games to play?
No. A tutorial guides you when you arrive, and the game's encyclopedia, reproduced in the site's guide, explains every rule.
Is this 4X game free?
Yes, entirely, and it is played in the browser with nothing to install.
Which civilizations can I play?
Four: Rome, Persia, Egypt and China, each with its capital, its wonder, two bonuses and its special unit.
A free strategy game, in your browser
Choose one of the four great nations of Antiquity, build your city, raise your armies and set out to conquer the world. Dynastoria plays on PC and on mobile, with nothing to install and no sign-up.
An ancient war game, free, in your browser
Legions of Rome, horsemen of Persia, archers of the Nile, crossbowmen of China: raise your army, entrust it to a hero and lead it into battle, square by square.
A strategy game set in Antiquity
Four great civilizations, each on its own lands, cities with ancient names and eight wonders to conquer: Dynastoria puts you at the head of a city of Rome, Persia, Egypt or China.
Turn-based battles, on a board
In Dynastoria, every battle is played square by square: your hero and their troops on one side, the enemy on the other, each in turn. Turn-based strategy that fits in your browser, on PC or on mobile.
Build your city, from palisade to colonnades
Dynastoria starts with a city to grow. Seventeen buildings, twenty-four levels, four ages: every construction changes its power, and its look.
Eight wonders of the ancient world to conquer
Eight wonders rise on the world map, two per nation. Taken with several armies and then held, they give their bonuses to the whole nation that keeps them.
A strategy game on mobile, with nothing to download
No app store, nothing to install: open dynastoria.com/en/play in your phone's browser, and your city is there.
The game guide
All the rules: the city, the map, the battles, the heroes, the nations.