pixelwar.io

pixelwar is a free browser strategy game about conquering territory. You start as a single pixel on a world map, expand across it, and fight everyone who wants the same land. No download, no install — it runs in the browser on desktop and phone.

How it plays

Pick a starting position, then grow. Unclaimed land is cheap; your neighbours are not. Every tile you capture raises your income and your troop capacity, and your reserve earns interest that slows as it fills — so sitting still is safe but slow, and spending everything leaves your borders open. A percentage bar decides how much of your army goes into each attack; the rest stays home and defends.

Water changes everything. Land attacks need a shared border, so an island start is protected until someone builds a boat — and boats carry troops that cannot be reinforced at sea.

Features

• Real multiplayer — free-for-all and team matches on a shared world, with hundreds of players supported.
• Clans and parties — build a clan, queue as a group, share one colour on the battlefield, and climb a separate clan ladder.
• In-match alliances — ask a rival for peace, split a continent, and decide when to break it.
• Peace votes — a match can end by ballot instead of conquest. The panel tells you whether agreement means a draw or a win for the leading side.
• Troop donations — bail out a teammate, at a tax that falls the longer the match runs.
• Solo practice vs bots — any map, any number of opponents, no waiting for a lobby.
• A guided tutorial — 13 steps and two missions on a live practice board, plus a one-time rank-point reward.
• 55 ranks and 8 badges — earned from verified match results, not from grinding.
• Three hand-built maps — Thronelands, World and Europe, in rotation.
• Plays on a phone — touch controls, installable as an app, same matches as desktop.

Why it feels fair

There is no match timer. A game ends when someone actually wins — by eliminating the opposition, by alliance, or by a vote. Every client simulates the match identically from the same inputs, and the server replays each finished match before it awards a single rank point, so a win has to survive verification to count.

Getting started

1. Enter a name in the lobby — guests can play immediately; sign in to keep ranks, badges and clan progress.
2. Run the tutorial or a solo practice match to learn the controls.
3. Join a multiplayer lobby, claim a spawn during the countdown, and take the map.

Free to play. No download. Nothing to install.

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