Feudal Wars — Play Free Online

Feudal Wars is a medieval-flavoured real-time strategy game that runs in the browser. Instead of steering a character through a level, you manage a small base: you put up buildings, gather resources, train soldiers and send them out against opponents. It is a slower, more thoughtful pick than most of the catalogue on this site.

If you landed here from Doodle Jump, expect a very different rhythm. There is no single jump to time and no score chasing upward. Your attention goes to a map, a queue of things to build and an army that needs feeding, and a session is about planning a few minutes ahead rather than reacting in a split second.

The game is listed under Action and Shooting on Doodle Jump, but its core is economy and army management. The pitch is that your structures cover different jobs: some produce resources, some train troops and some research upgrades, so the strength of your army depends on how well you balance them.

How to play

Move with the arrow keys or WASD, and use the mouse to aim and to select things on screen. On a phone or tablet, tap to select and swipe to move around.

A typical session starts with the basics: get your resource buildings going first, because everything else depends on income. Next add the buildings that train military units, then research. Once you have a force, you use it against rival armies, and you keep building while it fights so your economy does not stall.

Tips

• Build income before anything else. An army you cannot afford to replace is a one-time attack, not a strategy.
• Spread your spending across production, training and research instead of stacking one type of building.
• Keep building while you fight. Players who stop managing the base to watch a battle tend to fall behind.
• Use the mouse for selecting and the keyboard for moving the view; mixing the two quickly is the main skill here.

Similar games on Doodle Jump

For another game about planning rather than reflexes, Bloons Tower Defense 2 has you placing defences along a path and upgrading them between waves. Fireboy and Watergirl swaps strategy for puzzle solving with two characters who must cooperate. If you would rather go back to fast reflex play, Helix Jump and Doodle Jump itself are one-button experiences that start instantly.

Feudal Wars suits longer sittings with a keyboard and mouse, though it also accepts touch input. It plays in the page with nothing to install.