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Tribal Wars cover art

Tribal Wars

InnoGames · 2020-11-12

Steam

ActionMassively MultiplayerStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Nov 12, 2020 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jun 10, 2003 (Web browser), TBD (Android)

Compete in hardcore PvP strategy in persistent game worlds where real time resource and troop management in coordination with other players is required to expand your kingdom from one village to hundreds as you conquer the map in this winner takes all medieval contest.

Tribal Wars is an Action, Massively Multiplayer, Strategy and Free To Play game released in 2020, which is free-to-play, with an estimated 100,000 .. 200,000 owners and a Mostly Positive review sentiment (71% of 839 reviews).

45
playing now
71%
positive of 839 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
100,000–200,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

45 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 07:00 UTC (census sample)

Tribal Wars (TW) is a browser-based, real-time strategy, massively multiplayer online game set in the Middle Ages. The game is set with each player starting off controlling a small village, with the objective being to slowly expand and conquer new villages through the formation of complex armies and a tactical combat system. The game incorporates multiple components of teamwork, planning, and strategy. The game allows players to collect resources, build armies, construct buildings, combat other armies, and conquer new villages. The game also allows for a level of player-specific customization, in regards to village names, army types, and troop-counts. The game operates under world-specific settings that vary from world to world.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 45 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 52 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 40% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (213 reviews).
  • · Top 16% of 27,908 Action games in the census by review count.

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
16716720202026Week of 2020-11-01: 167 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

8502026-09-15 16:00 — 63 players2026-09-17 01:00 — 40 players2026-09-18 08:00 — 41 players2026-09-19 16:00 — 85 players2026-09-20 23:00 — 52 players2026-09-22 07:00 — 36 players2026-09-23 14:00 — 60 players2026-09-24 22:00 — 47 players2026-09-26 05:00 — 45 players2026-09-27 13:00 — 66 players2026-09-28 20:00 — 71 players2026-09-30 04:00 — 47 players2026-10-01 11:00 — 55 players2026-10-02 19:00 — 76 players2026-10-04 03:00 — 31 players2026-10-05 11:00 — 52 players2026-10-06 18:00 — 69 players2026-10-08 02:00 — 45 players2026-10-09 09:00 — 48 players2026-10-10 17:00 — 80 players2026-10-12 00:00 — 45 players2026-10-13 08:00 — 51 players2026-10-14 15:00 — 75 players2026-10-15 07:00 — 45 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
31042Nov 2020Aug 2026Nov 2020 — avg 310 · peak 498Jan 2021 — avg 276 · peak 436Mar 2021 — avg 211 · peak 347May 2021 — avg 165 · peak 285Jul 2021 — avg 115 · peak 187Sep 2021 — avg 130 · peak 215Nov 2021 — avg 148 · peak 252Jan 2022 — avg 176 · peak 286Mar 2022 — avg 121 · peak 270May 2022 — avg 51 · peak 89Jul 2022 — avg 43 · peak 75Sep 2022 — avg 45 · peak 77Nov 2022 — avg 57 · peak 108Jan 2023 — avg 49 · peak 93Mar 2023 — avg 45 · peak 77May 2023 — avg 50 · peak 88Jul 2023 — avg 46 · peak 83Sep 2023 — avg 43 · peak 74Nov 2023 — avg 59 · peak 104Jan 2024 — avg 99 · peak 199Mar 2024 — avg 91 · peak 168May 2024 — avg 63 · peak 109Jul 2024 — avg 56 · peak 99Sep 2024 — avg 65 · peak 107Nov 2024 — avg 54 · peak 103Jan 2025 — avg 77 · peak 134Mar 2025 — avg 75 · peak 122May 2025 — avg 81 · peak 136Jul 2025 — avg 63 · peak 113Sep 2025 — avg 74 · peak 124Nov 2025 — avg 66 · peak 114Jan 2026 — avg 73 · peak 126Mar 2026 — avg 65 · peak 115May 2026 — avg 66 · peak 121Jul 2026 — avg 55 · peak 92Aug 2026 — avg 52 · peak 97
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

28
achievements tracked
19.6%
earned "Newest Knight"
5.6%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSMulti-playerMMOPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

22 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Norwegian…

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)4536%28

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

2DPvPActionMedievalMilitaryStrategyTacticalMinimalistTeam-BasedPerma Death

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

Players also track

FortsMedieval Kingdom Wars

Similarity via IGDB.

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