Throneforged
Throneforged is a competitive 4X turn-based strategy game built for players who demand mastery over luck. Raise armies, research ancient technologies, seize multi-hex fortresses, and crush your rivals — all without a single dice roll. If you win, it's because you outplayed.
Command Six Asymmetric Factions
Begin as a neutral empire with a shared roster of warriors, archers, cavalry, scouts, and siege engines. As you advance into a new era of technology, your empire finds its identity — and you choose your destiny.
Solari Dominion — A versatile human empire whose veteran units hit the field faster than anyone else. Their Battlemage combines melee resilience with solar arcane fire.
Thornwood Covenant — Elven wardens who plant and reshape forests, turning the terrain itself into an impenetrable fortress. Their ancient Treants are the wall that never breaks.
Ironhold Clans — Dwarven engineers who fortify at half-cost and march through mountains. Their Runesmiths curse enemy units, turning the foe's own defenses against them.
Ashen Horde — Orcish raiders who move faster, hit harder, and burn everything. Their Warg Riders chain kills into free repositioning, striking and vanishing before you can react.
Tidecallers — Mages who flood the battlefield, dominate open water, and drag land units into the deep with their colossal Leviathan.
Umbral Pact — Undead attritionists who grow stronger as the body count rises. Their Lich harvests souls from every kill on the board, then raises entire graveyards as skeleton armies.
Every faction has a Tier 2 unit that replaces and upgrades your early forces, and a devastating Tier 4 elite that defines the late game. Faction choice is permanent — but deferred. You won't commit until mid-game, when the board state demands it.
The Throne Awaits — But So Does Its Guardian
At the heart of every map stands the Central Keep — seven hexes of ancient stone guarded by Thornwrath the Eternal, a colossal siege guardian fused to the walls over centuries. Before anyone can claim the Keep, Thornwrath must fall. His Warden's Aura fires the Keep's cannons automatically. His Rampart Slam hurls anyone who gets too close. His Unyielding passive means no single strike can kill him — the finishing blow must come separately.
Four Outposts ring the Keep, each sealed by Vorruk the Ironbound — a mercenary warlord who erupts from behind the walls the moment they fall. These are one-time encounters. Once a guardian falls, they stay fallen.
Deterministic Combat. No Exceptions.
Throneforged contains zero random number generation in gameplay. Damage values are calculated, not rolled. Combat outcomes can always be predicted. The only randomness is the procedurally generated map — mirrored for competitive fairness and seed-reproducible for tournament replay.
What this means: every hex you stand on matters. Every flanking angle you exploit is a real edge. Every unit you let die is a real mistake.
Deepen Your Army With XP, Gear, and Abilities
Units are characters. They gain experience through combat and passive service, promoting through Recruit, Veteran, Elite, and Champion tiers. Promotion unlocks powerful abilities:
Veterans gain Primary Abilities (Shield Wall, Radiant Charge, Tidal Surge, Life Drain...)
Champions unlock devastating Ultimates (Rain of Arrows, Stampede, Army of the Dead, Tsunami...)
Gear drops from cleared monster camps — predetermined, never random. Scouting a camp reveals its loot before you fight. A Tier 3 item might be worth the engagement cost. It might not. Items level as well just as units do.
Monster Camps, Creeps, and Boss Encounters
Monster camps dot the map with escalating threats: Stone Sentinels, Direwolves, Wind Serpents, Ogre Chieftains, and four Boss-tier creatures — the Dragon, Stone Golem, Arcane Elemental, and Mana Serpent. Defeat them for team buffs and guaranteed loot. Cleared camps respawn as the next tier up. Boss camps don't respawn at all.
A Strategic Layer That Rewards Long-Term Thinking
Technology Trees span five Eras, from Foundations through Ascension. Research gates unit production, unlocks buildings, opens harvesting, and eventually grants faction-exclusive late-game powers.
Cities grow through population, supported by Farm clusters. At Level 5 they can construct a Faction Mega-Building — the Solari Sun Spire, the Forgeheart Citadel, the Bloodmoon Pyre, and more.
Resource Harvesting rewards map control. Claim plains for Crops and Animals. Resources respawn as long as a building is not placed on the hex. Sail to open water for Fish. Control the central corridors and your star economy accelerates.
Supply Caravans ferry resources from camps to your Keep and Outposts. Intercept your opponent's and deny theirs.
Naval Warfare opens with Sailing tech — Galleys, War Galleys, Dreadnoughts, and the kamikaze Fire Ship unlock a full second front.
The Snake Turn System
Initiative alternates every five turns, with the trailing player receiving a double-turn at each transition. No permanent first-player advantage. No coin flip. The tempo of the game shifts, and so must your strategy.
Competitive at Its Core
Built for players who want a skill ceiling, not a slot machine:
Zero RNG in all combat and production
Mirror-symmetric maps with seed-based generation for tournament integrity
Ranked matchmaking, replays, and tournament support (roadmap)
One Victory Condition in Multiplayer: Keep Supremacy - Control the Central Keep for 10 turns.
Single Player 50 turn limit: Total Score tallied and ranked on a leaderboard.
Features
Incredibly in depth combat formula that incorporates the day/night cycle, terrain modifiers, controlled territory modifiers, item modifiers, tech tree modifiers, and more.
4X turn-based strategy on a procedurally generated hex grid
6 asymmetric factions with unique units, passives, and Mega-Buildings
Deterministic combat — zero RNG in gameplay
Full tech tree spanning 5 eras with faction-exclusive late-game branches
RPG-style unit progression: XP, promotions, gear, and abilities
Named boss encounters guarding map objectives
Naval warfare with 4 ship types
Day/Night cycle affecting Lawful and Chaotic unit performance
Terrain system with 12 tile types, forest clearing, and resource harvesting
Mirror-symmetric maps, seed-reproducible for tournament play
Online Multiplayer