Kingdom Wars is a free online real-time strategy game from Toronto-based Reverie World Studios, grown out of its earlier Dawn of Fantasy. You run your own stronghold in a fantasy world, take quests and fight neighbours on a shared 3D world map.
There are three races — elves, orcs and men — each with its own units, buildings, technologies and economy. The core is real-time sieges: armies ram gates and scale walls while defenders pour boiling oil and man wall-mounted catapults. Weather and seasons change the economy and which units are useful. Besides online play there is a single-player campaign and skirmish, and the developers say purchases are mostly cosmetic.
Fans of old-school siege strategy may find it interesting, but the project is close to abandoned: the last update came in 2021, and Steam threads report server outages and login trouble.
