⚔ PIXEL EMPIRES

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🔬 TECH TREE

Each technology is researched at a specific building as a queue item — different buildings research in parallel. Click to queue it at your least-busy building of that kind.

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⚔ PIXEL EMPIRES

Build a village, gather wood · stone · food · gold, advance your tech, raise an army, and conquer your rivals across a randomly generated world.

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Anyone who opens this link joins this game (even if the game is private).

Controls (Age-of-Empires style)

How to play

• Win by destroying every enemy City Center (only finished ones count). A civ that loses its last one is eliminated on the spot — its army drops dead and leaves skeletons for 5 minutes. You can also win by standing a Wonder for 10 minutes, or by earning enough gold from trade.
• The map is big and hidden: only what your units see is revealed. Your starting Scout (fast, huge sight) explores — remembered enemy buildings stay on the map as ghosts.
• Territory: city centers and castles claim land (colored border). Houses, farms and most buildings must go inside your own land; mines, lumber mills, docks, towers, walls and roads can be placed in neutral land. Gathering is 10% faster at home. Nothing can be built in enemy land.
• Farms go on any open land. Farmers produce food until the field is exhausted — then re-seed it (a queue item that costs wood; the Planner can do it automatically).
• Workplaces: put villagers in a building with the ＋ worker buttons (or right-click it). Lumber mills / mines send workers to the nearest forest / gold / stone up to 40 tiles away and keep moving on until it's gone. Market merchants earn gold, Dock workers fish — both with diminishing returns per extra worker.
• Ages (Dark → Feudal → Castle → Imperial) unlock buildings, units and techs. Advance at a City Center once you own 2 buildings of the current age.
• Everything has a production queue: villagers, soldiers, research, age-ups, re-seeding. Loop items with ↻, reorder, pause, or switch a building to skip mode so a blocked item doesn't stall it.
• The ⚙ Civ Planner automates your civilization with standing orders: keep N villagers/soldiers, split your workforce, auto-build houses/farms/extractors, follow a research plan, age up asap, auto-trade, hold resource reserves, defend (town bell + army), send attack waves, run trade routes, build roads… Start from a template.
• City Centers shoot arrows — more with villagers garrisoned inside. Ring the town bell (B) to shelter villagers; sound the all-clear to send them back to their exact jobs.
• Counters: Spearmen beat cavalry · cavalry beat archers · archers beat infantry · swordsmen are sturdy generalists and good at knocking down buildings · rams and catapults siege. Armor comes in melee and pierce.
• Armies cost gold to keep: each soldier beyond 10 drains wages; unpaid wages mean low morale (−25% attack).
• Market prices are shared by everyone and move with every trade — dumping food for gold gets worse the more anyone does it.
• Roads (drag to lay, auto-routed) make everyone 60% faster. Trade carts travel between two markets — longer routes pay much more, and trading with another civ's market pays both of you.
• 🐉 Every ~15 minutes a dragon burns part of the map — get out from under it. 🐺 Wolves attack units that stray far from any building.

Save & load (checkpoints)

Saves the whole game (all players) to a file on disk. Load one below to resume — great for surviving crashes or continuing later.

AI opponents

Adds a computer player at a random spot (press multiple times). Easy = peaceful, only defends its base. Medium = defends, but turns hostile and counter-attacks if you attack it. Hard = builds for war and hunts every player to exterminate them.

Game

Press ESC to resume.