Taking London: The Old Ages
A free browser strategy MMO. Build a city, raise an army, and fight your way across Britain and Ireland for the throne of London.
Taking London: The Old Ages is a classic-style, real-time city-building and war game that plays in your browser, on a PC or a phone, with nothing to download. Every player shares one persistent world: you start with a single small town, and how far it grows - and who it answers to - is up to you.
What you do
- Build your city. Twenty kinds of building, from cottages, farms and sawmills to the Academy, Barracks and Walls, each upgraded level by level.
- Manage five resources. Food, wood, stone, iron and gold - set your tax rate, buy and sell at the Marketplace, and keep your people fed.
- Research technologies. Eighteen of them at the Academy, from Agriculture and Stoneworking to Warfare Strategy and Engineering.
- Train an army. Twelve kinds of troop, from workers, warriors and scouts to cavalry, cataphracts, ballistae and catapults.
- Recruit heroes. Find them at the Inn, keep them loyal in the Feasting Hall, and give them command of your armies or your city.
- Take the land around you. Capture valleys for extra resources, found new cities, and lay siege to the historic cities of the British Isles - from Canterbury and Cork to Edinburgh, Dublin and London itself.
- Join an alliance. Band together with other players, keep each other informed, and go to war as one.
- Automate the routine with Pro mode. Write goals for your city and let it handle the busywork - see the Pro mode guide.
Remember the classic browser strategy games?
If you spent 2009 and 2010 building cities in a browser tab - waiting on construction timers, scouting your neighbours and sending out armies at 3am - Taking London will feel like home. It is built around that classic formula: a timber-and-gold interface, a big shared map, and slow-burning alliance wars fought over days and weeks. Coming from Evony Age I or Age II? Here's what to expect.
Questions
- Is it free?
- Yes. Taking London is free to play. There is an optional shop for players who want to support the game.
- Do I need to download anything?
- No. It runs in any modern web browser. On a phone you can also add it to your home screen to play it like an app.
- Does it work on mobile?
- Yes - the game has a touch-friendly layout for phones and tablets, and a full desktop layout for bigger screens.
- Is this the same game as Taking London on Steam?
- No. They share a name, a setting and a designer, but Taking London: The Old Ages is a separate, browser-based MMO.
- How do I start?
- Register with an email address and a password at the top of this page, pick a server, and found your first city.