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FRONTIER

From gang to empire

Free medieval strategy game in your browser. Rise from a landless gang to an empire through trade, war and diplomacy in a 3D open world.

  • Strategy
  • Open world
  • Single player

Screenshots

Your gang starts in a neutral town square among the market stalls.
Your gang starts in a neutral town square among the market stalls.

About FRONTIER

FRONTIER is a free, single-player strategy game that runs in your browser with no download. You begin as a landless gang in a neutral town with a little gold and a club. Gather wood, stone and ore, hunt, sell your goods at town markets where prices follow supply and demand, and hire your first mercenaries at the tavern.

Plant your flag in an unclaimed region and your gang grows into a lordship, then a kingdom and finally an empire. Place farms, barracks and towers on your own land, send workers to gather, train soldiers, research new techniques and draw stone walls. Your commanders lead armies in formation, and siege engines help you take walled cities.

Rival lords expand, trade and go to war on their own. Sign pacts and alliances with them, demand tribute or declare war, and win when no rival border is left on the map. Every world is generated from a seed, the whole map is visible from the start, and you can pause at any moment.

Features

  • Rise through four ranks, Gang, Lordship, Kingdom and Empire, each unlocking new buildings, troops and treaties.
  • Gather, hunt and trade across town markets with changing prices, then send out your own caravans and build harbours.
  • Place buildings on your land, put workers to work, train soldiers at barracks, archery ranges and stables, and research 16 studies.
  • Lead up to six armies under commanders, with formations, unit counters and siege engines such as rams and catapults.
  • Face 1 to 7 rival lords, each with a personality, and deal with them through pacts, trade deals, tribute, alliances, vassalage or war.
  • Explore generated worlds in three map sizes with coasts, forests, mountains, roads and walled cities, all made by code without asset files.
  • Pause at any time, play at 1x or 3x speed, and keep several save slots with autosave in your browser.

How to play

  1. Press New game, choose a map size, the number of enemy lords and a difficulty, then start.
  2. Walk up to a tree or a rock and press E to gather, then sell the goods at the town market.
  3. Buy tools and weapons from the smith and hire mercenaries at the tavern.
  4. Walk to the white flag in the centre of an unclaimed region and press E to plant your own flag (the first one costs 60 gold).
  5. Claim neighbouring regions until you hold three and become a lordship, then build, raise armies and start diplomacy.
  6. Follow the Goals list in the top left corner whenever you are unsure what to do next.

Controls

Keyboard and mouse

InputAction
W A S D / ShiftWalk relative to the camera, hold Shift to run
Mouse wheelZoom from the close camera out to the whole map
Right dragRotate the camera
Right clickWalk to a point, or send the selected army or workers there
Left clickAttack up close, otherwise select a region to build, plant a flag or besiege
EInteract: gather, enter a town, plant a flag, besiege
I K F OOpen inventory, realm, diplomacy and armies & caravans panels
M / TabToggle the map view
Space / - / +Pause, normal speed, 3x speed
Shift + dragSelect several armies and workers at once

Touchscreen

InputAction
TapWalk there, or inspect a region on the map view
HoldInspect a region
One-finger dragRotate the camera or pan the map
Pinch / twistZoom in and out, turn the view
E and ⚔ buttonsInteract, hold ⚔ to attack the nearest foe
Tap an army, then the groundSelect the army and send it there

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