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Critically-Acclaimed, Award-Winning Massively Multi-player Epic Grand Strategy
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"Fantastic city-builder... a ton of depth, a great community... play at your own pace... perfect gameplay... absolutely wonderful Lore... the map is incredible... reminds me of Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones - those great big epic stories." - massively.com
Build a city, create an Empire!
Forge Alliances with thousands of players. Craft and Trade 380+ resources and items in an entirely player driven market, across a vast, varied world.
Battle in tournaments and wars against other players, or side with 100+ warring NPC factions and their 700+ unit types.
Research 400+ technologies, and build 70+ building types to create your own specialised cities
Gather exotic resources, craft rare items, master mighty magics, command thieves and assassins, settle new lands....
Illyriad is a strategy game of extraordinary depth and variety. With a great community, multiple paths for city specialisation, and frequent updates and new releases, this is a vast fantasy world where you can be the kind of ruler that you wish to be.
Build, plan, gather, craft, trade, scheme and fight in this free to play strategy epic!
"Solid and deep MMO play experience. This is certainly a sweeping, epic strategy game." – Independent Games Festival Judges
"Very in-depth.... Different styles of play to suit different players. Large variety of troops, tactics and magic...." - mmohuts.com
* Editors Choice 2014 - Community Award - SlideDB
* Grand Strategy Indie of the Year 2014 - IndieDB
* Grand Strategy App of the Year 2014 - SlideDB
* Players' Choice - Overall App of the Year 2014 - 2nd Place - SlideDB
* Online Innovation Finalist - Develop Awards
* Power Up Awards Finalist - Microsoft
* Game On Notable Runner-Up - Mozilla
* 101 free PC games - GameSpy
* Top Massively Multiplayer - IndieDB
Latest reviews
- (2018-03-18) Tigger Brown: I have been playing this game for well over a year now and still love it. We have a great community that are willing to help you get started and wont kill you as soon as your rainbow comes down. This is a very complex game and takes a while to get going but if your willing to stick at it you will find it great fun and very engaging. There are so many paths to follow and always great people to chat to while you play
- (2018-01-09) Sire Boomlot: Great game, if you like titles such as Forge Of Empires, but want something more complex then this is a game for you. Even if you don't classically like games such as Forge of Empires then this is still something you should check out. It is an old game and patches come out less than frequent, but overall it's a great game and I wish it would regain popularity, but don't mistake me for saying it's a lost cause and dead. It has an active community and the chat is still used frequently. It also has a friendly and engaging community, personally I played a game called War Commander before, great game, toxic community and they made it hell for me. In conclusion I highly recommend this game, though I should warn you that it takes a month to kick off.
- (2017-11-27) Susan WALTERS: I love it!! I've been playing for three years and enjoy it more than ever!!
- (2017-09-08) Elliot Nelson: One of the best games, and I mean the best, you actually get to chose for yourself what you do, and instead of being spoonfeed information, and not having to think, like most games, you are forced to actually think and consider things. The game has not adds, not annoying adds and offers to buy things for the game. You really can't buy your way through this game, if a person just takes the time to think, and work at this game, then you'll love it. There's endless possibliies and the gaming enviroment is one of the best in any gameing enviorment, there's not insults, inapporate behavire or bullying. The players are very helpful and I would advise anyone trying this game to just try it for a few days, and ask questions in the chat, you'll get a answer quickly, I sincerly love this game, as I've been playing this game for 3 years and counting.
- (2017-03-10) Connor Peckham: pay to win garbage. your money is better spent elsewhere
- (2016-09-30) Randall Perot: I discovered this game just recently, And I now wish I had given it a try sooner. It is a very well executed massive scale strategy game. The biggest surprise for me was the game's community. The community is extremely helpful toward new players, willing to answer any questions and free to offer game resources, advice, guidance and links to informative sites and forum posts. Having played some similar online strategy games with horrific communities, this was a breath of fresh air. Attacking and bullying new players is highly discouraged, and players that engage in such activities week pay a steep price. There are rules of in game etiquette that virtually all players follow, which was also something different and pleasant. All around a great experience. Also, not a pay to win type experience as I have encountered in other online strategy games, which I found greatly encouraging in keeping me playing and engaged.
- (2016-08-16) Eric Davis: Can't play game as game windoow is to small.
- (2016-07-21) abcd: This game is downright diddly ding dong boring. You'll probably quit within minutes anyways. I rather raise a llama.
- (2015-12-14) Jane Dew: Love this game! It will make a gamer out of anyone.
- (2015-11-29) Dave Allison: Dave Allison this is a well constructed medeval strategy game. Players are friendly and free with in game knowledge /references. There is always an online GM present.Great game!! Be nice to see others follow their example. Plus it doesn't cost a fortune for in game currency.
- (2015-10-09) fuzzygreen: It has a charm that is hard to find in other games. If you come across this APP do yourself a favor and download it and give it a try. Make sure you say hello in global chat!
- (2015-08-22) Thranduil Calaquendi: Awesome! Like Lotr and The Hobbit.
- (2015-07-26) Fonz Fauzi Bin Ridho: great start. its too complex for most gamers though
- (2015-05-28) Justin Wood: Great community, great gameplay, the GM's are douchebags though. They will mute you from the chat for one whole month just for making a joke.
- (2015-01-31) Jenny Jones: Love it but it's addictive!Medieval GTA!
- (2015-01-30) Matthew Sandell: Awesome!I'd reccomend it to anybody
- (2015-01-24) huseyin doğan: berbattt....
- (2015-01-24) Anthony Ehrhart: Absolutely incredible I would write more but I need to get back to the game.
- (2014-11-26) Arif Nuhiji: Love it.
- (2014-06-17) Paul Brannan: Kinda boring without any sound.
- (2014-05-25) Jason Ward: The Good: - good engaged community - game play is decent The Bad: - some bugs are frustrating to work around - content seems to be lacking The Ugly - Community Manager bans people for things *not* against their own ToS - gets 'offended' easily - A Dev Team that keeps to their promises - If you invest in the game with the prestige system, and the Community Manager does Ban you, there is little recourse to get your investment back
- (2014-05-18) Scott Fournier: Although I just started playing this game, I find it to be quite deep, the incorporation of paying is unique and not intrusive. The community is one of the best I have been around. This is an awesome game
- (2014-04-12) Stephen Wade: New player, but seems easy to pick up, hard to master and isn't constantly asking for cash. Great so far.
- (2014-04-12) seren williams: love it! i was looking for ages a good game to play on my newly bought laptop but lllyriad is ace as hell
- (2014-01-04) iain fryer: Best, most immersive MMO you'll find. Downloaded it by accident two years ago and still hooked. Cost me my job, my social life and love life, but was worth it.
- (2013-12-22) Mark Sinclair: Tried various games like this before and found them a bit dull. Not Illyriad though, it is a really good game. You can play effectively without spending any real money - though a little boost from real money goes a long way. A brilliant game - be warned it is very addictive.
- (2013-10-31) Cristian Ceo: Nest game of it's kind with great developers that are not trying to squeeze money out of you. I deserves 10 stars!
- (2013-06-12) Jaxemy Daviso: The basics of empire building games. Formed into a easy to pick up and learn game. You might recognize elements from all your favorites. On the other hand if you recognize them it means you've seen it all before. In that case you might find it as easy to drop as it was to pick up.
- (2013-03-21) Seruel Archer: Very good game, nice people playing and the DEVs are so cool when they visit the chat, full strategy excellent community they give you advices and help from the beggining. [excelente juego de estrategia ;)]
- (2013-02-06) M Schull: Best game I ever played.
- (2012-10-28) Hannah Walker: this is a boring game.
- (2012-10-28) Raymond Marini: Committed developers make this really a stand out game.
- (2012-10-26) Matthew Ede: not as good as others
- (2012-08-10) Daniel Clarke: The game that every browser strategy game should try to be like. Wonderful community, with friendly vets. Amazingly deep strategic play, with a huge update to trade just recently. Try it out, introduce yourself in global chat as new and I guarantee someone will be linking FAQs and sending you resources to help you on your way.
- (2012-05-02) Josh: Best game I've played in my life, couldn't get better. It is friendly, lovable and prestige is not needed to play! 10/10
- (2012-03-10) Torres: Probably the best browser MMORTS out there of it's kind. It has a great fan-base, complex gameplay (not for people who don't like to think), and best of all you can play for a short while, and continue with your studies/work... if you don't get addicted to it first that is.
- (2012-03-09) Stan Lanczynski: Very friendly community. Surprising depth for a 2D MMORTS that reminds me of Eve-Online.
- (2011-12-24) Sarah Weekes: This is an awesome game. Please note, you need patience and it would help immensely if you were friendly :)
- (2011-12-04) Avinash B.: it is an awesome game