Grow Empire

Prospectus

Strategically upgrade your walls, towers, and warriors. Defend your city from the attacks of elephants, siege guns and waves of enemy troops, covering the sky with arrows and fire. Defeat your enemies by clashing with Egyptian, Italian, Gallic, Iberian and Carthaginian warriors, and expand your empire across Europe and Africa. Conquer their cities and get chests with gems, gold, potions and maps! Defend your colonies and replenish your bank with gold. Become the leader that Rome claims to be.

How it plays

Your task is either to defend the fortress or to attack! Release troops to attack or defend - they will fight automatically. To defeat the enemy, use various abilities and upgrade your warriors.

Opening an account with this game takes one press: Open the holding, above, and it loads on this page itself — nothing downloads and no form stands between you and the first decision. It is drawn for a landscape (wide) screen and takes its instructions from mouse, keyboard or touch, as the game prefers. The file is drawn wide, for a landscape screen — turn a phone sideways, or let a tablet or desktop give it room to breathe. If a fullscreen control is offered, take it — a growing enterprise deserves the whole desk.

Analyst's notes for strategy holdings

• Write the plan before the first move, even if the plan is one sentence. Strategy games punish improvisation politely and reward a rough intention revised on purpose.
• Spend your first session on reconnaissance. Watch what the game charges you for — time, space, resources, attention — because that price list is the whole game in miniature.
• Keep a reserve uncommitted. The player who deploys everything into the opening has read only the first page of the problem; the answer usually arrives in chapter two.

Grow Empire — questions from the readership

What does it cost to open Grow Empire?

Nothing, at any point. The holding is free from the first click to the last upgrade — no account to open, no download to wait for, no paywall filed anywhere in its pages. The advertising around this page is what pays the bookkeeping.

What kind of game is Grow Empire, exactly?

We file it on the Strategy shelf of the ledger. It is a browser game through and through — the prospectus above is the publisher's own summary of what the game asks of you and what it gives back.

Can I play Grow Empire on a phone or tablet?

Yes — it runs in the browser on phones and tablets just as it does on a computer. The file is drawn wide, for a landscape screen — turn a phone sideways, or let a tablet or desktop give it room to breathe.

Is there anything to download or install first?

Nothing at all. Grow Empire is an HTML5 game: press the open button and it loads on this very page, and closing the tab leaves nothing behind on your device.

Closing entry

Finished the audit, or still mid-season? The full Strategy shelf is one click away — The deliberate shelf: 102 games where the win is decided several moves before it happens. Plans, counters and patience, filed in roster order with the strongest thinkers first.