Truce
In force
- You
- The ruler across the river
While it holds, neither side can harm the other: not with a sword, an arrow or a stone thrown from a trebuchet. An attack order will not break it.
Either of you may end it at any time, but never quietly.
Until We War
A medieval strategy game about building a civilization whose prosperity depends on other rulers, and deciding which of them are worth defending.
In development for Windows on Steam. There is no release date or store page yet.
A familiar foundation
Villagers, four resources, walls and siege, fog of war and armies you can read at a glance. If you have played a classic historical RTS, you can play your first match without a tutorial.
Food
Farms, forage and the villagers who work them.
Wood
Houses, palisades, bows and the first siege engines.
Gold
Soldiers, research, caravans and the price of peace.
Stone
Walls, keeps, towers and the Great Works.
Treaties the world enforces
What you agree to is what happens. A truce cannot be broken by a stray arrow, a payment cannot be quietly skipped, and nobody owes a debt the others cannot see.
Offers stay private between the rulers negotiating them. Once signed, the terms are public, and so is every completed transfer. Press L in a match and the ledger shows who has promised what to whom.
The public ledger
- Truce
- No damage between signatories, projectiles and area effects included. Ending it is a public act with a 30-second notice.
- Exchange
- Resources change hands at once, in full, or not at all.
- Trade access
- Your caravans may use their markets. Theirs may use yours.
- Shared vision
- What their scouts see, you see, for as long as the treaty holds.
- Recurring payment
- Tribute on a schedule. Pay each installment in full, or default and the bundle ends.
- Gate passage
- Their soldiers may walk through your gates. Choose carefully who.
- Coalition
- An agreement to win together. Coalitions decide who shares a victory, not who scores points.
The road is where wars start
Wealth moves on caravans, and caravans move through the world. They are units: they can be seen, followed, raided and escorted.
Round trips pay
A caravan earns on its safe return from a foreign market. The farther the market, the richer the trip. Your own markets pay you nothing for trading with each other.
Towns are the prize
Every trading town is a market anyone may use and a fortress anyone may take. There are always fewer towns than rulers.
Dominion is public
Hold a majority of the towns and a countdown starts that everyone can see. Your neighbours will have to decide what your peace is worth to them.
Four culture groups, 700 to 1350
Each has its own architecture, music, military strength, one special command, two special units and a Great Work. None of them is good or evil.
Latin Kingdoms
Hold and smash
Fortification, heavy warfare and shock. Slow to move, hard to move off a position.
- Special
- Lance Charge
- Great Work
- Grand Cathedral
Eastern Realms
Form and endure
Discipline, combined arms and position. Armies that hold their shape under pressure.
- Special
- Shield Wall
- Great Work
- Imperial Sanctuary
Sultanate Realms
Trade and maneuver
Trade, maneuver and knowledge. Rich caravans and armies that fight on the move.
- Special
- Harass
- Great Work
- Grand Foundation
Steppe Confederacies
Raid and outmaneuver
Mobility, pillage and manipulation. The weakest at static defence and the hardest to pin down.
- Special
- Feigned Retreat
- Great Work
- Great Ordu
From village to civilization
Four ages, each a step in political scale. There is no gunpowder: trebuchets top the siege tree, and bows, crossbows, cavalry and infantry decide the field.
I
Founding
c. 700–850
Small settlements, timber, basic infantry, scouts and palisades.
II
Territorial
c. 850–1000
Organized domains, mounted warfare, markets and roads, early stone defenses.
III
Kingdom
c. 1000–1175
Castles, heavy infantry and cavalry, serious siege, trade networks.
IV
High Medieval
c. 1175–1350
Stone cities, sophisticated siege, mature formations and the Great Works.
An evening, not an event
A quiet night with one friend and two AI rulers is a complete match. More humans enrich a world that already works.
Realm
The flagship: four rulers, three trading towns. A quiet evening with one friend and two AI rulers is a complete match.
Duel
One against one, the same rules, nowhere to hide.
Locked 2v2
Two teams with a permanent truce, shared vision and open gates between allies.
Co-op Defense
Two to four players hold a settlement against declared waves. Every advantage the attacker has is written in the briefing.
Co-op Siege
Starve, raid and breach a fortress fed by real roads and real caravans.
From the development
No news has been published yet.
Take a seat in the Great Hall
Argue about strategy, report a bug, found a clan or ask for help. One account covers the forum, clans and support.