Build your kingdom. Pick your battles.

Start with a capital and room to grow. Build settlements, connect them with roads, and send troops across the border. In Palisade, you give orders directly on the map, without moving individual squads. The controls are simple; deciding where to spend your gold and when to attack takes practice.

Make room to grow

Click or drag to claim open land, attack a neighbour, or reinforce a push already underway. Watch the borders change as armies advance. Hills, coastlines, and nearby rivals shape your next move: grab useful ground now, or save your strength for their capital?

Keep your army supplied

• Settlements grow your army, but their upkeep costs gold.

• Marketplaces earn income from the districts around your settlements.

• Castles extend your influence and increase troop capacity through completed road connections. Upgrade them to make them harder to capture.

Roads connect your buildings into a network. Plan those connections to reduce settlement upkeep and improve the buildings they link. More land is useful, but only if you can afford to hold it.

Find a way through

• Launch a Cavalry Charge to cut a fast path through enemy territory.

• Use a Naval Landing to open a new front across the sea. Check the route and sinking risk before committing your troops.

• Build Palisades to stop cavalry and slow advancing armies while they break through.

Five campaigns with sixteen battles, plus two standalone historical battles

Play Northern Saga, Yellow Turban Rising, The Genpei War, Atlantic Voyage, and The Triple Alliance. The maps draw on real geography and regional history. Each battle gives you a different task, from capturing a rival capital to controlling territory or building up your realm.

Choose Standard, Hardened, or Relentless difficulty. Between battles, pick upgrades for your cavalry, naval expeditions, or palisades that last for the rest of the campaign. Revisit any battle you have reached in Practice.

Set up your own Skirmish

Choose a battlefield, your realm, opponents, starting resources, and victory condition. Adjust AI difficulty, game speed, and other rules to suit the match you want. Keep the seed and settings to replay the same starting layout or share it with a friend.

Play with friends

Host online matches for up to eight players across custom and historical scenarios. Play free for all battles or divide the room into teams. Create private lobbies with Steam friend invites or share a short room code.

Build and share custom maps

Create your own battlefields with the built in Map Editor. Draw terrain, elevation, and fertile ground, then place starting areas for up to eight players. Test your layout directly in the editor, play it in Skirmish and multiplayer, and share your maps through the Steam Workshop or direct file export.