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Rajya

Empires of India

Lead one of ten great kingdoms from the first river cities in 3000 BC to the age of steam. Found cities, raise armies, build wonders and outlast your rivals, one turn at a time.

Free to play. No sign-up. Your games save in your browser, so you can close the tab and pick up where you left off.

A Mughal empire in 1250 AD: walled cities along a river, borders, forests and armies on a 3D map

Ten kingdoms, ten ways to rule

Every kingdom starts with its own technologies and a bonus from the first turn, earns new bonuses as the ages pass, and fields one unit nobody else can build.

Armies that grow with your knowledge

Research new technologies and your forces change with them, from club-carrying warriors and war elephants to musket lines, field artillery and steam frigates.

Numbers under each unit are attack / defence / moves.

The city screen for Agra, showing food, production, trade, buildings and the build queue

Simple to learn, deep enough to keep you up

Rajya keeps the rules short so you spend your time deciding, not reading.

  • Cities work their own land; you choose what they build.
  • 43 technologies across five eras, and 16 wonders from the Great Stupa to the Taj Mahal.
  • Six governments, Great People, trade routes and diplomacy.
  • Win by conquest, culture, wealth or a race to the future.
The Civilopedia page for the Mughal Empire, listing its bonuses, unique unit and history

Look anything up, any time

The built-in Civilopedia explains every technology, unit, building, wonder, government and kingdom, with the history behind them. Tap a name anywhere in the game to jump to its page.

Six difficulty levels take you from a gentle first game to rivals who will not forgive a thin border.

Playing in the browser

With a mouse

Click
Select a unit or open a city
Click a tile
Show the route; click again to go
Drag
Move the map
Scroll
Zoom in and out
Enter
End your turn

On a phone or tablet

Tap
Select, then tap twice to move
Pinch
Zoom
Hold
Tile details

Turn your phone sideways. For a full-screen game, use your browser's "Add to Home Screen".

If it runs slowly

Open Settings from the title screen and set graphics quality to Low, or switch to the 2D map. Rajya needs a browser with WebGL 2 for 3D; it falls back to 2D on its own when that isn't available.

Your kingdom is waiting

Start in the browser now, or install the Android app to play anywhere, even offline.

The Android app installs directly from this file. Your phone will ask you to allow installs from your browser the first time.