One big sky.
Hundreds of players and thousands of floating islands on one chart. Every island is somebody's to found, hold or lose, and the factions' borders move as the weeks go by.
A slow strategy game in the browser
Airship empires over the islands of the sky.
A large 4X for many players that never stops moving. Found a settlement on a floating island, build works and a fleet, trade, and hold your sky against the other factions. The world ticks on whether you are there or not: give it ten minutes at breakfast or an evening, whenever suits you, and play a game that runs for weeks.
Next up: Quick Balanced series 2, opens in 11 hours · 49 places left
I. What it is
Slow, and always moving.
A day in the game passes in about an hour of yours. Farms, works and queues run while you are away, and a voyage you order at night has arrived by morning.
Yours when you have time.
Strategic, but it never needs your full attention. Give orders, close the tab, come back whenever suits you. A game runs about six weeks, and nobody has to be there at once.
II. How it plays
1 · Found
Settle an island.
Lay out a town, farms and works, feed and house your people. Queues run while you are away; the island is a status display you can read at a glance.
2 · Sail
Launch a fleet.
Build hulls, provision them, and reach the islands worth having. Range and cargo are the game; the Charterhouse buys what you bring back.
3 · Hold
Keep your sky.
Batteries, torpedoes and manoeuvre against the other factions. Standings are kept game by game and across the season.
Free to play in official games. A new one opens on a fixed rotation, so there is always one to join, and a late arrival gets a fair start.
III. The rotation
| Game | Series | State | Opens · started | Places | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quick Balanced series 2 | Quick Balanced series 2 · official | enrolling | opens in 11 hours | 1 of 50 | Take a place |
IV. From the log
The world builder, a fixed money supply, and islands of every size
Real games are made from a form now: map size, island density, AI players, places, and the Charterhouse’s figures. Money comes from the house alone.
Torpedoes as things in the water
Unguided spreads fired close in, seeking rounds fired at range, and a torpedo boat on the iron patch.
Hosting a game of your own
The game host is a public image. Register one from your account and your community games run on it.
Ready when the next game opens.
Create an accountfree to play in official games
For the curious: every game runs a published ruleset you can read, and members can fork one and host a game of their own. Browse the library.