Frisian Sea Beta

Frisian Sea

A strategy game in your browser, on the Frisian Sea of the early Middle Ages. Frisian ships sail from Dorestad to Ribe, heavy with cloth, salt and wine, and Franks, Saxons and Danes have their eyes on their silver. Build your village on a terp, a mound raised above the tide, send your people out across the land and defend what is yours.

Play against the computer Play together

Frisian Sea is in beta: there may still be bugs in it. If you spot one, please report it via Report a bug.

You don't need an account. A game against the computer starts right away and runs entirely in your browser.

Four villages, a unique map every game

You start with a hall and a handful of villagers. Gather food, wood, iron and silver, lay out fields and grow your village. Every map is different: water, forest and rock are never in the same place twice.

A village by the water with red banners: fields, houses, a wooden palisade and ships on the shore.
Yellow and purple Danes attack the palisade, with a ram at the gate and more rams on the way.

You only see what your own people see

The rest of the map lies in fog. Send a scout ahead, train spearbearers, bowmen and horsemen, and choose where you fight. A game takes twenty minutes to half an hour.

This is what a game looks like

A village grows, moves into a new age and then the Danes land. One minute, with sound.

Watch a minute from a real game
A village by the water seen from above, with houses, fields and villagers at work.

Planned

Missions with real history

Missions are coming that you play on your own, each set in a piece of real history of the North Sea coast: how Frisians, Franks, Saxons and Danes lived, traded and went to war here. As you play, you learn what life was like back then. Fun and educational, for children too.

There will also be a ranking and logging in with an account you already have.

See the whole plan

Four levels of the computer

Choose how strong the computer plays. Win, and take on the next one. King plays fair too: no extra resources, and nothing through the fog.

  • A pitchfork, the sign of Farmhand.

    Farmhand

    Builds a village and attacks late and carefully. For your first games.

  • A golden sheaf of corn with a band, the sign of Farmer.

    Farmer

    Plays a whole game at a calm pace and defends its village.

  • A round shield with a boss, the sign of Chieftain.

    Chieftain

    Plays with ages, technologies, walls and the sea.

  • A narrow golden crown with red stones, the sign of King.

    King

    Everything the computer can do: pace, sallies, rams and the sea.

More about the levels

Play together in the lobby

Click Play together. In the lobby you join an open room, or create your own and send on the link from the waiting room. Up to four can play, alone or in teams. The computer plays the empty slots.

Play together

You don't need an account

Want one anyway? Then you pick a player name. You can delete your account yourself at any time. With an account you can look back on the games you played.

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