A multiplayer city builder that runs in your browser. Clear a real forest, shape your own land, and trade every resource and item on a live market run by other players. Raise an army, or stay peaceful and get rich anyway.
Early prototype. The world is standing, but it is a rough diamond: the detail and the polish are still being cut.
Multiplayer first
Most city builders leave you alone with a beautiful map. Hercynia puts other people into the same world, without forcing you into real time. You act when you have time, and the world keeps running while you are away.
Every player draws from and feeds into the same market. What you produce matters because someone else needs it.
Put other players on the edges of your map and look at how they build. Read only, no permission needed, nothing to break.
Talk, organise, specialise. Trade routes and alliances are worth more than any single building.
Your lumberjacks keep working when the tab is closed. The server owns the clock, so nobody can cheat it.
The economy
As deep as an economy simulation, without looking like a spreadsheet. Post an offer, watch the order book, follow the price over time. Every trade settles in one atomic server transaction, so there is no duplication and no half finished deal.
Open offers from real players, sorted by price. Buy directly or undercut them.
See what things actually sold for, not what a shop pretends they are worth.
Raw resources, crafted goods, rare finds and equipment. If you own it, you can sell it.
Go all in on timber, on stone, on crafting. You do not need to produce everything yourself.
Marketplace
Oak timber
Last 7 days
| Seller | Amount | Unit price | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aldheim | 1,200 | 14 | Buy |
| Brackwald | 850 | 15 | Buy |
| Vorstwacht | 3,000 | 15 | Buy |
| Eichengrund | 420 | 17 | Buy |
Two paths
Hercynia has two long term ways to win, and neither is the polite one. You can choose a side later, and you can stay on one side forever.
Your home base is protected. You get deeper production chains, better logistics and stronger trade progression. Your caravans and expeditions can still be raided on the road, so you decide the route, the cargo and the escort.
Asynchronous attacks: scout, plan, send your army, come back to a report. Equip your troops with items you found, crafted or bought, then take what you could not build.
You never have to fight. Peaceful players get their own full progression, their own rare goods and their own endgame. Offline players stay protected.
The world
The forest is your first obstacle and your first resource at the same time. Every tree your lumberjacks take down is really gone, and the clearing it leaves behind is where your village grows. Place and rotate buildings freely, the way you want them, not the way a grid wants them.
Drag to turn, pinch or use the buttons to zoom
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Items
Items with real rarity, equipped on your armies and traded like everything else. Rarity comes from where an item came from and how well it was made, not from a random colour roll. There are no paid loot boxes.
Common
Oak plank
Uncommon
Woodcutter's axe
Rare
Hunter's bow
Epic
Warden's shield
Legendary
Hercynian blade
Battle loot, expeditions, high end crafting, reputation rewards and player trade. No single path owns the best gear.
Base type, material quality, craftsmanship, modifiers and origin. Not a slot machine.
Found something you cannot use? Someone else will pay for it.
The item system is in design. This is what we are building towards.
Anywhere
Nothing to install, nothing to update, no launcher. Open a tab at work, check your stock on the train, post an offer from a cafe and close it again. Hercynia is built asynchronous on purpose, so five minutes are a real turn.
Founders
When the demo is ready we will offer founder packages for the people who want this game to exist. Until then, here is exactly what will be in them, so nobody is surprised later.
Purely cosmetic. No advantage in the game, no advantage on the market.
15 €
35 €
75 €
Founder seals only buy cosmetics: houses, castles, banners, crests, profile frames and decoration. They are not tradeable and cannot be turned into resources. They never touch the player market.
Prices are not final.
Honest status
We would rather tell you what is missing than have you find out. This list is updated as the game grows.
Questions
No. The prototype is free and you only need an email address and a password. Later there will be optional cosmetic purchases and founder packages, never a paywall in front of the game.
No. Hercynia runs in the browser. No launcher, no installer, no plugin, no updates to wait for.
No, and this is the one promise we will not bend. Everything you can buy is cosmetic: houses, castles, banners, crests and decoration. Nothing you can buy produces resources, shortens build times or gives you an edge on the market.
Yes. The same account and the same world work on desktop and mobile. On a phone you get touch controls and a graphics setting to keep the frame rate comfortable.
Those are single player at heart. In Hercynia the other players are the point: one shared economy, prices made by people, and later attacks, guilds and trade routes. Your settlement is yours alone, but it is not isolated.
We kept what made them work: no ticking, no grind, decisions that pay off while you are away. On top of that comes an actual 3D world you reshape, deep production chains, a real player market and an item system with rarities. The old formula, with a world you can look at.
No. Combat is one of two equal paths. A merchant gets a protected home base, their own progression, their own rare goods and their own endgame. You can play the whole game without ever raising an army.
You can create a settlement, clear the forest with real lumberjacks, place and rotate buildings freely, watch your wood come in while you are offline, and trade on the marketplace prototype. What is missing is the loop that ties it all together, and that is what we are building next.
We will very likely reset the world at least once before launch, because the economy balance will change fundamentally. We will say so clearly and in advance, never quietly.
No date, on purpose. We would rather ship something good late than something bad on time. Follow along and you will see it grow week by week.
Go in, take a look around, cut down a tree. Then tell us what it needs.
Try our prototypeFree. Runs in your browser. Takes a minute to start.
