Banners & Crowns

Four seasons. One throne. Banners & Crowns is a turn-based medieval strategy game played on a living, low-poly isometric map. Found cities, research technologies, raise armies and decide whether your neighbours are friends, tributaries or targets. The map starts hidden behind white clouds; every unit you send out lifts them. Eight kingdoms, each with its own ruler, favourite troop and national perks, are fighting over the same land. Yours may be the Peacemaker's realm of Aldoria, the iron fortress of Valmere, the orchards of Sylvane, the merchants of Oakhaven, Kharn's raiders, or one of the three rivals you meet along the way.

What makes it differentThe seasons change the war. Spring heals, summer is for marching, autumn doubles the harvest, and in winter the rivers freeze: armies cross where they could not, supply runs thin outside your borders, and when the ice melts anyone still standing on it is swept to the bank. Heroes that grow. Your hero gains levels and skills, and carries them from chapter to chapter. Every kingdom's ruler has their own model, favourite troop and perks.

Real diplomacy. Meet the other kingdoms, sign peace for eight rounds, form alliances, send tribute, or seal a pact with a royal marriage. Break your word and your honour suffers. Walls, sieges and flanking. Pikes stop cavalry, walls protect cities, catapults ignore them, and units that surround an enemy hit harder. Things happen.…