Build your medieval castle, grow its economy, and lay siege to your rival before they raze your keep. Bannerhold is a free browser real-time strategy game, playable on desktop and phone: chop wood, quarry stone, farm wheat, mill flour and bake bread to feed your peasants; forge spears, bows and swords; recruit spearmen, archers and swordsmen; raise walls, gates and arrow towers around your castle. Manage taxes and popularity, trade at the market, and time your attack. Fight a cunning AI across three difficulties, or challenge a friend in 1v1 multiplayer: quick play matches you instantly, or open a private room and share the invite code. Fast matches, a deep castle-building economy and real strategy, right in your browser.
How to play
Drag to select troops, tap or click to move and attack. Tap a building to manage it (keep = taxes, market = trading, barracks = recruiting). Drag the map to pan, pinch or scroll to zoom, ⚔ selects your army, 🏰 centres on your keep. Desktop: WASD pans, Esc deselects, Del demolishes, Space pauses, 1-4 sets speed.
New in v4.5
Siege engines arrive: build a Siege Works for battering rams and catapults that crack towers and keeps but can't fight men — escort them! Brew beer (hop field → brewery → inn) to keep spirits high under heavy taxes, research four upgrades at the new University, and press the ? button for a full reference on units, counters and every production chain.
