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Realm of the Crown

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Level 1 — The Clearing
An empty valley, no enemy in sight. Send your villagers to the trees: 400 wood and the job is done.
Goal: destroy the enemy town centre — red banner, top right.
On a computer: left click selects, drag draws a selection box, double click takes every visible unit of that type. Right click gives the order — move, attack, gather, build. Shift adds to the selection. The wheel and the screen edge scroll the map, the middle button drags it. On a phone: tapping selects or commands, dragging moves the map. Send villagers to a tree, berries or gold. Select the barracks to train soldiers.
Left click selects, drag boxes, right click gives the order. On a phone: tap.Tap a unit or a building. Drag to move the map.

How to play

  1. On a computer: left click selects, drag draws a selection box, right click gives the order. On a phone a tap does both. Select a villager and send them to a tree, a berry bush or a gold vein — they gather on their own and carry every ten units back to the town centre.
  2. Select the town centre to train more villagers. Each costs 50 food and pays for itself within a few trips.
  3. Select a villager, click “Build barracks”, then put it on an open spot. It costs 150 wood and takes twelve seconds to raise.
  4. Select the finished barracks to train swordsmen, archers or riders. Double-clicking a unit takes every visible one of that type; “All soldiers” gathers the whole army.
  5. With soldiers selected, right click an enemy building or unit to attack it; the wheel and the screen edge scroll the map. You win the level when the enemy town centre falls — and lose when yours does.

Realm of the Crown is a free real-time strategy browser game on DropPlay in which players raise a medieval village, gather wood, food and gold, and work through a campaign of twelve missions in three acts. They do not all ask the same thing: sometimes the enemy town centre has to fall, sometimes a quantity of gold has to be brought in, sometimes a position simply has to be held for several minutes, and sometimes the enemy barracks have to be razed so the reinforcements dry up. Four map shapes — open country, thick forest, a pass with a single way through, and a river with every gold vein on the far side — give the missions their form. The game follows the genre’s classic build loop: villagers gather resources and raise houses, barracks, watchtowers and stores; houses lift the population limit, so every piece of wood is a choice between economy and army. Six unit types sit in a counter cycle: spearmen beat riders, riders beat archers, archers beat swordsmen, swordsmen beat spearmen. On a computer it is played with the mouse — left click selects, dragging draws a selection box, right click gives the order — and on a phone with taps. Realm of the Crown runs straight in the browser on desktop, tablet and phone, with no download and no sign-up.

Tips & strategy

  • Send every starting villager to food first, not gold. Food buys more villagers, and each extra gatherer compounds across the whole level.
  • Archers have 130 range, swordsmen 16. A mixed group is far stronger than the sum of its parts: the swordsmen hold the enemy in place while the archers shoot undisturbed.
  • Riders move at 92, nearly twice as fast as anything else. That is exactly what they are for — reaching enemy archers before they get their volleys off.
  • Villagers automatically flee to the town centre when attacked. That only saves them if soldiers are standing there.
  • The population cap of 30 counts gatherers and soldiers together. Go to 20 villagers and the level becomes unwinnable — ten soldiers are not enough from level 3 onwards.
  • Attack waves arrive on a fixed timer, every 36 seconds in level 5. The gap between two waves is your window for a push of your own.

FAQ

How do you play Realm of the Crown?

On a computer, with the mouse: left click selects a unit, dragging draws a selection box over several, and a double click takes every visible one of that type. Right click gives the order — gather, build, attack, move. The wheel and the screen edge scroll the map, and the minimap in the top right jumps straight to a location. On a phone a tap does both: select, then command. What a level asks for is written above the board.

How many levels does Realm of the Crown have?

Twelve, in three acts. Act one is economy and the first fight, act two is the forest and the counter cycle, act three the pass and the river. They ask different things: four want the enemy town centre razed, three want a position held, three want a quantity of resources gathered, and one wants the enemy barracks destroyed. Your highest level reached is stored locally in your browser.

What units are there?

Six, and five of them sit in a counter cycle: spearmen hit riders twice as hard, riders beat archers, archers beat swordsmen, swordsmen beat spearmen. Then the scout — fastest, furthest-seeing, and outmatched by everything in a fight. Villagers gather and build and barely defend themselves.

Can I play Realm of the Crown on a phone?

Yes. On a phone a tap selects and issues orders, dragging pans the map, and the “Box” toggle switches dragging over to multi-select. On a computer that toggle does not appear at all — there the left button always draws a selection box.

Is Realm of the Crown free?

Yes, completely free and with no sign-up. There are no in-game purchases, no units locked behind payment and no ad break before you start playing.

Is my progress saved?

The highest level you have completed is stored in your browser through the LocalStorage API and never leaves your device. Individual levels always start fresh — there is no mid-match save.

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