Announcing Crownrend | A Kingdom-Building Online Strategy Game!

Hi everyone!

After an exciting period of brainstorming, building, writing, and testing, I’m happy to announce that Crownrend is ready to open its doors!

This all began as a dream between me and my partner-in-crime, @mrtats—we wanted a game we’d actually enjoy playing ourselves, rather than making a “just another blockchain game.” So we thought hard into crafting Crownrend.

I’ll spare you the walls of text, but in a nutshell: it’s an incremental, semi-idle, online strategy game. We’ve got loads of ideas and surprises up our sleeves that I can’t fully reveal yet (where’s the fun in that?), but you can bet that this will be worth it.

In the war-torn realm of Calderan, kingdoms clash for supremacy as prophecies of a supreme ruler echo through time. Forge your destiny among the embers of conflict, raise mighty armies, and build a legacy that will echo through the ages. Will you be the one to lead the continent to a new era of an empire, or will you be the one to fall?

As you’ve probably guessed, Crownrend is all about building up your own kingdom. You’ll start with a humble village—a shabby “sorry-for-a-kingdom” and set your sights on expanding into a mighty empire.

There are plenty of stats to juggle as you grow—each choice matters and can’t be undone, but just so we're all aware, Rome wasn’t built in a day! Your strategy is everything. It’s not just about having the strongest army; their morale and tactics can tip the scales. And yes, watch your borders—friends or foes might be closer than you think.

Along the way, you’ll discover items to bolster your journey. You can barter with neighboring kingdoms or take a chance on mysterious chests offered by wandering travelers. How you play is entirely up to you.

Check out Crownrend now!

Join our Discord server!

Less lorey:

Crownrend utilizes 2 tokens, DENAR and ORI. DENAR is the currency that you earn by simply... playing the game. ORI, on the other hand, is the premium currency that can only be obtained in special ways. The easiest way to obtain it at the moment is simply getting an item and "selling it" to the merchant guild. ORI is used to upgrade your existing items.

Items have certain rarities, types and tags, you can have multiple items of the same type, but you can't equip an item that has the same tag.

The game also relies heavily on PvP. You can't just upgrade your mine and call it a day, you'll most certainly be attacked and lose your precious DENAR.

Please keep in mind that everything is a constant work in progress, we'll add more features both we know we want and things that you can suggest.

For my fellow incremental game lovers, the number must go BIG.

I'll share some sneak peek screenshots below.

Check out Crownrend now!

Join our Discord server!

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Looks like it could be a good game to play, especially if much more is to come! I will have to work towards the initial payment price so I can get a start, when I have the Hive for it.

Will be checking out what else is to come

Edit: I have now gotten into the game and slowly growing, keen to see the new features and more to do!

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Boutta pull a MKBHD and tell everyone I've been daily driving this game for the last few months!

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😄😄

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🤣

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Always happy to see new games on Hive. Can't wait for a first-person shooter blockchain game someday. I'll check this out too and see if it's something I can get into.

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Can't wait for a first-person shooter blockchain game someday

We've been around for 3+ years... 😅

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I was going to tag you (and I don't even play) lol

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😎 💪

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Really?

Wow I must’ve been really way behind with a lot of things here on Hive

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Is your game playable on mobile or it’s only available for pc users

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For now only Desktop machines (Windows, Mac, Linux). Browser-based, no download.

Downloadable Web2 option coming soon to expand the user base on game stores.
Mobile would be next but not sure if it will be in scope this year, more likely 2026.

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Liking the look of it. Whats cost to get going?

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There's an entry cost, which is $10 in Hive.

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I'll take a look and see. I want a game like Civ which would be amazing!

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I wanted to try it out, but after the first click: "to create your kingdom, a one-time payment of 16.306 HIVE is required". Brrr... felt very cold on this server!

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IGUAL...

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As a die hard fan of Civ and strategy games, I am willing to really give this a try. I do hope it goes beyond card game. I am checking it out and looking forward to the future development.

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How are you going to avoid new players (aka new born realms) getting stomped by well established empire as soon as they join the game?

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Thanks for your comment,

After a certain point in the game, as players develop and start becoming stronger, it will simply be useless and pointless for someone to stomp a newbie, they will obtain next to no rewards (assuming they're really far into their development tree, more or less) in comparison to fighting someone of their level.

Technically, there is nothing stopping a user with 5000 KP (kingdom power) attacking a user with 500 KP, but the roundabout losses they'll incur by not playing on their power level would be detrimental for their development in the future.

On top of that, if the weaker user calculates their strategy correctly, they could even beat the stronger user in a battle, with a bit of luck involved in the process as well.

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Okay so it works sort of ladder elo (the principle) , where, if the rank 1 player beats the rank 99999 gets just 1 elo point but if he loses, he loses a lot, sounds good

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Just started this now to check it out. Seems like golem in its very first days. I really hope there is lot to come soon as it will not be enough to keep up interest as it is. I'm currently struggling to see where strategy is needed at the moment. That being said, I'm definitely looking forward to see what comes from this as a true kingdom building strategy game would very much be needed in this blockchain! Good luck forwards!

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Speaking with @deathwing in the Discord just now, DENAR that is used to increase a stat, is destroyed. So most of the DENAR that is entering the system is being immediately removed through increasing stats.

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I'm going to use this next time I'm in a street fight

I'm about to take your ass to whooptown and your Denar is coming with me. Bee-ach!!

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Joined ..."Terracore" vibes 😁

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"Your strategy is everything" sounds so catchy.

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good to see more games on hive. Good work! I cant say its too encouraging to see that players have to pay to get started. I feel like blockchain games shoot themselves in the foot by creating a barrier to entry so early on, when what you surely want is for everyone (the whole community) to be playing it? Thats the best marketing you can get, and amplifies the levels of fun experienced when you have a large community of excited players (not to mention more chances to make revenue off of transaction fees etc. surely?). That said Im sure you've thought about all this much more than I have and you'll get lots of people to pay the entry fee and kickstart the game. I wish you the best of luck!

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Thanks for your comment, I honestly agree with you. Payment is a double edged sword, it has other meanings on a certain level when it comes to pricing as well as the existence of it in the first place. (i.e. naturally prevents registering 5000 accounts by a single person, and potentially making abuse/exploit much "harder")

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ah yeh, I forgot about that issue. Yes there definitely has to be some payment, and I suppose its about finding the optimum level between encouraging more players and discouraging reward farmers and bot accounts etc. Like I said, Im sure you've thought about it plenty and come to a sensible decision! hehe

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I like where this is going and honestly, paying for access isn't a big deal, because I spend a lot more than $10 on games. I currently play doomsday survivor and have been playing that for over two years now, so I'm a fan of these sort of games. What I enjoy about Doomsday survivor is that the game is constantly evolving and updates regularly to ensure players are entertained. I really hope this game will also be of a similar model

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Thought about playing... saw a few characters already botting the everloving bajeesus out of this game...

Gonna pass for now but I'll check it out

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Oh... can't check it out without spending 20ish Hive...

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Will there be LP for swaphive and DENAR?

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If there's an interest in it, for sure.

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!PIZZA

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This is something. Will check this out !BBH

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travian kinda of game?

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Similar! Certainly an inspiration.

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Thank you for answering. Cool game it is!

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Great to see a new game on hive and being able to get in early. Worth the $10 risk to me to have some fun although would be good to see a plan for the future of the game too.

Let the raiding commence!

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Great to see another game of this genre starting on Hive. I love that they aren't time-intensive, but still have a sense of progress and PvP can be fun (or not), depending on what side of the win/loss you find yourself, usually.

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I've always been interested in these kinds of games. I used to play them on the web years ago, so why not do the same on the blockchain? Great work!

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This sounds intresting, and I'm guessing there is more to it, I joined the discord server and await more informations

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Hello, about @meowcurator reward seem pretty low these day, 0.001 per day... (370Leo + 20 Meow leo) while india-leo would pay around 0.010 LEO per day for this... i start considering changing my delegation (maybe i'm just dumb and miss understood smthg)

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Yeah I'm not paying to play a random browser game. That's more money than many decent STEAM games. Come on.

For all I know this is just yet another card game... hard pass! Nice effort though

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It is definitely not a card game and we won't be relying on cards in the future either. Our take on cards are "items" in the game, but they are certainly not the main aspect which the game revolves around, and it won't be in the future.

I can understand your sentiment regarding the pricing, the overall cost is simply chosen because we believe that we also have what it takes when it comes to blockchain games.

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Yeah but like... we don't know that you have what it takes, the common customer. We don't even know what the game looks like or anything. Why would we pay for that? No trailer? No video? it'd seem super scammy if it wasn't such a renowned name on this chain such as yourself.

Like I said, you can get really, really good games on steam for like 4,5 bucks. You're basically asking us to believe you're as good as, and equally valuable to, these games with millions of players, high quality animation and graphics, voice acting, full musical scores and so on.

So far all I see is a website with some text on it. It's not encouraging... I get the 'prevent spam' angle to some degree, but still.

Post an exciting trailer and I think we might have much more enthusiasm across the board

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im not really a gamer, but this looks cool. the price for joining is fair

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That sounds intriguing!! The description reminds me of some old games that I enjoyed playing... Civilization, Colonization, Warcraft 2-3... Give me more games like those, and I'm hooked... 😃

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Sounds interesting we'll give it a butchers, gaming is a big part of both Annabelle and my life, RTS and Turn Based figured very highly Halo Wars, Tropico, Massive Chalice, Civs and of course X Com. A reasonable price too, looking forward to seeing what you guys have done, thank you.

PS hope it's mobile too

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Just joined, we've completed the raids and stat'd up, looking forward to watching this evolve, thank you, by the way the the price is well worth it, dlc is double this price normally.

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fun so free to play? get some onboarding for hive let's gooo?

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I'm a sucker for incremental idle/semi-idle games. but not got the HIVE right now to buy in. $10 is no worse than splinterlands summoner book thing so yeah seems fine.

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Thanks for the comment, yeah the game cost relies heavily on past games on Hive, we really just "went" with the standard.

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Good Post!

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It's a lot of fun!

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Congratulations. This was a surprise to be honest. I will try the game soon. I request the establishment of a community for crownrend.

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so this is already the payable version? Would be nice to see info about gameplay/mechanics. Is there an intro video? Good job btw :)

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We're working on a "information" wiki sort of thing. We don't have a video, no, but would love to see someone making it.

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okay, because asking for the $10 upfront without any sort of idea about the game is a bit daunting 😅 Maybe provide some basic info on the front page or so, although I am sure it will be added later on :)

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You created discord server for this game but why not to organize telegram channel for it?

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Yess, more games on HIVE. I will definitely be taking a look into this game.

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Announcing Crownrend | A Kingdom-Building Online Strategy Game!

Check out Crownrend now!

Join our Discord server!

Check out Crownrend now!

Join our Discord server!

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