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Crowds & Crowns

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Crowds & Crowns

A medieval auto-battler for up to eight players

Draft a warband, then outlast seven rivals in the Crown Arena or set out alone on the Lantern Road.

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Your name

Your avatar watches from the sidelines.

Crowds & Crowns

Choose your battle

Gather your company.

or join your friends

How to play

Pick a commander. It fights on your board for free, ranks up on rounds 5, 10 and 15, and you choose a talent each time.
Buy units from the shop and drag them from your bench onto your half of the board. Your level is how many units you can field.
3 copies of a unit merge into ★★, and 3 of those into ★★★.
Units share traits. Field enough different units of a trait to unlock its bonus.
After rounds 1 and every fourth round, choose 1 of 3 items. Drag equipment onto a unit to change its stats and appearance.
Each fighter has one item slot. Drop a second component onto an equipped component to craft a completed item. Hover components for recipes; completed items swap back to your bench.
Fights are automatic. Losing costs you HP. Last player standing wins.
Gold earns interest: +1 per 10 gold banked (max +5). Win or lose streaks pay extra.
Keys: D reroll · F buy XP · E sell hovered unit · Space ready · T taunt.

The Lantern Road

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Quartermaster

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Boons Take one into a node from its briefing

Titles Worn under your name in every match

THE LANTERN COVENANT

Know your company.

Build a crew. Find a combination. Make it your own.

Wear your power

Every item changes the character on the board.

Fighter Equipment

Fighter before equipping — Original outfit

Fighter wearing selected equipment

Drag to turn

Lobby

1 / 8 players found Starts in 30s

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Players

Bots 6

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Choose your commander

Prep

Round1

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Items

Drag an item onto a fighter to equip it.

Right-drag to orbit · Scroll to zoom · Click ground to run or a crystal to kindle it

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Match recap

Player profile

Settings

UI size Frame rate Master volume Music Sound effects Quest dialogue Arena graphics Anti-aliasing Render scale 100%

Above 100% smooths fine detail at a higher GPU cost. UI size stays the same.

Bloom Contact shading Gentle sharpening Period look Town camera Time of day Weather

A match is a day at the tourney: morning fights, sunset in the middle rounds, night battles by torchlight at the end. Everyone in a match sees the same weather. Lightning holds back with reduced motion.

An old-print tone and an aged rim over the game and its menus, with a fine film grain on the board. Grain holds still with reduced motion.

Credits and licences

Crowds & Crowns is an original game. Its characters, world and story are our own.

Original character models were generated with Meshy from our own character designs (CC BY 4.0).
Other characters, props and scenery: KayKit Adventurers, Skeletons and Medieval Hexagon packs by Kay Lousberg, and Ultimate Monsters by Quaternius (CC0).
Sound effects: Kenney's RPG Audio and Impact Sounds, and CC0 packs from OpenGameArt.org.
Music: “Medieval: The Old Tower Inn” and “Determined Pursuit” from OpenGameArt.org (CC0). Town music: “Woodland Fantasy” by Matthew Pablo (matthewpablo.com), CC-BY 3.0, looped for the game.
Built with Babylon.js and Colyseus. Type set in Alegreya and Cinzel.

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