Frequently asked questions

Citavon is a free medieval real-time strategy MMO you play in your web browser. You are a lord with a town in a world shared with every other player: you build up your city, gather resources, research, hire heroes, train an army and compete for land on one big world map.

Yes. Citavon is free to play. Create an account at citavon.com and start straight away.

No. Citavon runs in a desktop web browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox. There is nothing to install.

Citavon is made for desktop and laptop browsers. Phones and tablets are not supported.

Click “New here? Create an account” on the login page, type your name and email, and we email you a code to prove the address. Enter the code and choose a password. Then you pick a server and found your first lord. One account can hold several lords.

Click “Forgot your password?” on the login page and type the email your account is under. We email you a code, and with it you choose a new password.

Upgrade the buildings of your city to produce food, wood, stone and iron and to collect gold in taxes. Research at the Academy, hire heroes at the Inn and train troops at the Barracks, and build defences on your walls. Then send armies across the world map to capture valleys, defeat NPC cities and take on other players, and found new cities as your noble title rises.

Food, wood, stone and iron, made by farms, sawmills, quarries and iron mines outside your walls, and gold, collected in taxes from your people. Your army eats food every hour, so keep the farms growing with it.

Yes. Beginner protection keeps a new lord’s cities safe from attacks and scouting for up to seven days, or until a Town Hall reaches level 5, whichever comes first.

Twelve kinds: workers, warriors, scouts, pikemen, swordsmen, archers, cavalry, cataphracts, transporters, ballistae, battering rams and catapults. Each has its own strengths, speed, load and food upkeep.

Build fortifications on your walls (traps, abatis, archer towers, rolling logs and defensive trebuchets), keep troops at home, and ask your alliance to send reinforcements.

Heroes lead your armies and run your cities. Hire them at the Inn, keep them in the Feasting Hall, and level them up. A hero’s attack makes armies hit harder, and the mayor’s politics raises that city’s production while their attack speeds up its troop training.

Valleys are the forests, lakes, hills, deserts, swamps and grasslands around the map. Defeat their guards and hold them to add to your city’s production.

A lord may hold one city more than their noble title allows: Knight, Baronet, Baron, Viscount, Earl and higher. Raise your title, then send a march with resources and workers to an empty flat to build a new city.

Yes. Join or found an alliance for shared chat and mail, reinforce one another’s cities and set diplomacy (ally, neutral or enemy) with other alliances. You can also add friends to your account.

Build an Embassy in your city. With it you can apply to an alliance or accept an invitation, or found your own alliance once the Embassy reaches level 2 (it costs 10,000 gold).

Yes. The Marketplace lets you buy and sell food, wood, stone and iron with other players for gold.

Citavon is in open testing. The world is live and free to join, and we are still adding features and tuning the balance.

Email support@citavon.com with your lord’s name, what happened and when. A screenshot helps.