BANNERWAKEv0.202.0

A realm is built one choice at a time.

BANNERWAKE

Build the land. Raise the banner.

Gather resources. Build your settlement. Claim the landmarks.
Defend your people and expand your realm.

Play it on your computer

Free in a browser tab, nothing to install; it plays with a mouse and keyboard. Send yourself the link, and your realm is one click away tonight.

Email me the link

Walls, towers, and siege engines, as it plays

On a computerMultiplayer needs a mouse and keyboard for now; joining a friend’s room by code works here too.

  • Gatherresources
  • Buildyour settlement
  • Claimlandmarks
  • Defendand expand

  • GatherTimber, stone, and the harvest

  • BuildRaise a town from five Laborers

  • ClaimDrive off the bandits, claim the landmarks

  • DefendWalls, towers, and siege engines

About

A settlement that grows into a realm

An original real-time strategy game that runs in your browser, with nothing to install. You start with a Town Hall, five Laborers, and a Scout. The Laborers cut timber, quarry stone, and bring in the harvest; you raise houses, farms, and camps, train an army, and send it out to hold the landmarks that carry your realm from Homestead to March to Sovereignty.

In a Skirmish, alone, you face the AI at 4 difficulties, from a gentle first match to one that fortifies its home and sends waves to win; with friends, you play in a room of up to 8. The last realm standing wins. Last Stand, still in testing, turns it round: hold a walled town against 10 waves of raiders, alone or with up to 3 friends.

  • 5factionseach with its own elite soldier
  • 9map typesfair to every seat, in three climates
  • 2–8playersfree-for-all or in teams
  • 4AI difficultiesEasy to Very Hard

Features

Everything a realm needs

  • 5 factions

    River Compact, Highland Pact, Roman Empire, Gallic Tribes, and Egyptian Kingdom: each with its own buildings, a bonus, and a Fortress unit such as the Legionary or the Pharaoh’s Guard.

  • 9 map types

    Open Frontier, River Crossings, Broken Highlands, Crossroads, and more, generated from a seed and fair to every seat, in temperate, winter, or desert country.

  • Landmarks and Glory

    Standing stones and Moai statues pay Glory while you hold them, and Glory raises your realm through its stages. Bandit camps guard them first.

  • Armies that counter

    Pikes stop riders, riders run down archers, archers cut down swordsmen, and swordsmen break the pike line. Towers, Walls, and siege engines decide the long games.

  • Multiplayer for 2–8

    Open a room, share its five-letter code, fill the empty seats with AI, and play free-for-all or in teams, or hold a Last Stand together. A dropped player can rejoin.

  • Storms and wild country

    Tornadoes, sandstorms, and blizzards cross the map and hunt the nearest units; deer and boars roam between the realms.

  • River Compact
  • Highland Pact
  • Roman Empire
  • Gallic Tribes
  • Egyptian Kingdom

Media

From the game

An Egyptian settlement at work: Laborers felling birches, quarrying stone, and reaping fields, and hunters bringing down deer by the Town Hall.
Timber, stone, and the harvest
A Roman town raising a new quarter in time-lapse: crews of Laborers on the scaffolding of houses, barracks, a lumber camp, and a tower.
Raise a town from five Laborers
A Gallic warband of clansmen, druids, stone bearers, and riders cuts down the bandits holding a Moai statue on a highland plateau, burns their camp, and claims the statue.
Drive off the bandits, claim the landmarks
Highland trebuchets hurl stones at a River Compact stronghold while their army storms its stone walls, gate and towers.
Walls, towers, and siege engines
Gallic clansmen and stone bearers clash with the Egyptian Pharaoh’s Guard and camel riders on a plank bridge, archers shooting from both banks.
Gauls and Egyptians at the bridge
A Highland Pact town on its own island of the Archipelago: stone halls, towers, fields, and woods, ringed by beaches, sandbars, and the sea.
Archipelago, an island realm
A settlement in the snow on a Frozen Lakes map: brick halls, fields, beacons, and snowy pines.
Frozen Lakes, in winter
A settlement on the sand of a Desert Oases map, with palms, fields of grain, and Laborers at work.
Desert Oases

Screenshots from the game as it plays today, captured in its own engine.

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