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IRON REALMS

Raise a keep from a lone tower to a seat of power. Forge alliances, march on rival lords, hatch dragons, lay down a fleet and cross the narrow sea — and hold your walls when the Long Night falls.

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100 lords have raised their banners

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Money never buys power

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⚠️ Pre-alpha — built in public. This is an early, in-development build. Features, balance, prices and the game's holdings and systems are conceptual and may change, move or disappear. Progress may be reset while the realm is being built. You are welcome to play, break it, and tell us what is wrong — that is rather the point.

Why Iron Realms

A strategy MMO you can trust

Most games of this kind let the biggest wallet win. Iron Realms is built on a different promise — enforced in code and checked on every update.

Fair by design

Time is the binding axis. Money buys speed and flair — never a ceiling a dedicated free lord can't reach. A charter audit fails the build if any offer would sell power.

A living realm

Three thousand lords to a kingdom, sharing one continent. Seasons turn every seven real days, the sky mirrors real weather, and thirty Residents — AI characters who hold real keeps, join alliances and post on the board — play and scheme on their own clock, raiding the wilds and each other but never opening a march on you.

Play anywhere

Runs in any browser on phone, tablet or desktop — nothing to install. Play solo offline or step into the shared live realm. Your reign, your way.

Built in public · what is live now

A realm that keeps growing while you play it

Iron Realms ships in small releases, several a week, and every one of them is written up in the newsroom and checked against the game’s own constants. Here is what the realm can do today.

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A navy, and a sea to cross

Build a harbour, lay down six hulls from skiffs and reavers to war galleys and dromons, reave ten coasts, blockade a rival banner’s seat, raid another lord’s quays, put a Free City to the sword — or sail a gathering party to the richest veins in the game, on the far side of the narrow sea.

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Thirty Residents who really play

AI lords with keeps, memories, grudges and a forum voice. They gather, build, join banners, hold seats, post on the board and answer what you ask them — on their own clock, never opening a march on you.

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Seats of Power at war

Grind a seat’s walls, break its garrison, land the takeover blow inside the war window. Allied seats in one region raise a shield wall over each other; a seat itself can never be shielded, because it is public ground.

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Every fight leaves a report

On land, at sea and in the defence of a seat you hold: rounds, losses on both sides, survivors and spoils, filed in the Council archive and readable from any device you sign in on.

The promise, in numbers

Every claim on this page is a figure we can show you

Fairness is easy to assert and hard to prove. These are the actual constants the game is built from — the same ones the balance tests assert on every commit.

$0Store price, pre-alphaNot shut — free. Everything in the catalogue is free to take, once a day per item, while the realm is being built.

$200Hard monthly spend capPer account, rolling 30 days. No whale can outspend the cap, so no whale can outrun you.

4 hoursA day's grind equals the top spenderActive play reaches the same daily ceiling money buys. Time and coin are the two currencies.

45 / 13Keep levels & troop tiersThe same summit for everyone — about seven months free at half an hour a day, counting the keep and the nineteen plots that gate it. Reachable without spending a penny.

The 3D world map of Iron Realms — keeps and holdfasts across a green continent

The Realm

A whole continent to conquer

Settle your keep on a vast, lore-rich map of seats, forests, rivers and the frozen North — eleven regions — nine kingdoms under their Lords Paramount, the Wall beyond them, and Essos across the water — with 191 contestable Seats of Power between them. Every holdfast you see is a real lord — player or Resident — with walls to break and spoils to take.

Scout, march, and rally on rival keeps and Seats of Power
Terrain that aids defenders and slows the bold
A living political map where NPC houses war on their own

Explore the world & lore → Combat Guide

Keeps of the realm under a winter sky in Iron Realms

Fire & Blood

Raise dragons. Wage war.

Find and hatch dragon eggs, grow your wyrm through its stages, and lead your greatest assaults from the saddle. Take flight over the realm — or brave the Sky Trial for spoils.

Alliances, forts, wars, and a grand Conquest Season
Dragon gear, growth-gated abilities, and dragon-vs-dragon duels
The Sky Trial: dodge the hazards, the longer you last the greater the reward

Meet the Dragons →

A player's 3D keep in Iron Realms — walls, towers, and seventeen buildings under a winter sky

Your Seat

Build a keep worth defending

Raise a walled castle from a single tower — farms, barracks, a maester's academy, stables, a dragon pit and more, each in fully modelled 3D. Every upgrade reshapes the keep you see.

Seventeen buildings, multi-plots, prestige tiers and Ascension
Watchtowers and walls that make an attacker pay
Seasons that dress your keep in autumn gold or winter snow

The Keep & Buildings →

Screenshots

See the realm

Real frames from the game — no bullshots. See the full media gallery →

A fully-built 3D keep in Iron Realms — **Your keep** — a walled castle of seventeen buildings, all in 3D.

Iron Realms world map with keeps and smallfolk — **The world map** — settle, scout, and march across the continent.

Rival keeps and bandit raiders on the Iron Realms map — **The wilds push back** — rival holdfasts and creatures on the march.

Iron Realms holdfasts and rival keeps — **Rival holdfasts** — every keep a lord, every wall a prize.

Close view of buildings inside an Iron Realms keep — **Every plot matters** — arrange and upgrade your build.

Iron Realms keeps under a winter season — **The long winter** — seasons turn and the realm freezes over.

Depth of a lifetime

Every system, mastered over months

A game with the depth to live in. Dip into the guides as you unlock each layer.

New Player Tutorial

Your whole first week, step by step — keep to alliance to war.

Alliances & Wars

Found or join a banner, hold forts and seats, win the Conquest Season.

The Keep

Buildings, tiers, multi-plots, prestige, and the road to Keep 45.

Research

An Academy of named disciplines to power economy, war, and speed.

The Forge

Reforge gear, kit your commanders, and win Valyrian steel.

The Realm at War

NPC lords who raid, seize seats, and band into free companies.

Seasons & Weather

Seven-day seasons, the Long Night, and live real-world weather.

The Maester's Archive

44 system guides — every mechanic, from your first tower onward.

Learn & follow along

Walkthroughs, strategy & news

Step-by-step walkthroughs for every stage of the game — plus the official newsroom.

Your First 24 Hours

An hour-by-hour opening-day plan that never leaves a queue idle.

Rally Coordination

Turn a mob of attacks into a perfect, timed alliance strike.

The Troop Triangle

Beat larger armies with the right counter — the full combat guide.

All 20+ Walkthroughs

First day to endgame — the complete strategy library.

Newsroom

Official announcements and press releases from the Iron Realms team.

Roadmap

What's live now, what's next, and what we're exploring — fair play forever.

Media & Screenshots

Real frames from the realm, free to use for coverage.

Not the game · the Fan Zone

Rankings, chats and games about other worlds

The same studio, a different set of rules: unofficial fan tributes, made for fun and free to use, that name the worlds they are about and reproduce nothing of theirs.

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The Workrate Report

An all-time professional wrestling ranking of more than five thousand wrestlers by one open algorithm, every term of it published. Put two head to head across 924 weightings, or move the weights yourself and get a link to the list you made.

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Talk to a character

Jon Snow and Uhtred of Bebbanburg, written as themselves and run by the same minds that drive the Residents. They stay in character, and they know what they must not answer.

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The Last Kingdom wing

A shield wall to hold, a holmgang to fight, a burh to defend through three nights, Alfred’s war of 878 to win — games that run entirely in your browser and carry as a short code you can share.

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Westeros, Supernatural and more

Which Great House are you? Twenty questions and an AI-written verdict. A road trip in the Impala. King of the Hill, Fringe, The Big Bang Theory — quizzes, tools and diversions, and a comment box under every one.

The realm awaits its lord

Found your keep, raise your banner, and carve out a claim in a living world — free, and fair, forever.

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