Evony: The King's Return

YOUR CRASH COURSE

Build and Upgrade Your City

Construct and upgrade resource buildings (farms, sawmills, quarries, mines), military structures (barracks, stables, workshops), and the keep itself — the central building that gates all other upgrade tiers. City layout affects defense — placing defensive structures near resource buildings protects your economy during enemy raids.

Train Troops Across Four Tiers

Recruit infantry, cavalry, archers, and siege engines through tier levels (T1 through T14+). Each tier jump represents a dramatic power increase and a proportional training time and resource cost increase. Losing a high-tier army in a poorly planned attack sets your military progress back weeks, making strategic restraint as important as aggressive expansion.

Research Through Dual Tech Trees

The academy splits into Economic (faster resource production, larger storage, quicker construction) and Military (troop stats, march speed, hospital capacity) branches. Research times at high tiers stretch into months, and academy queue management — which research to run overnight, which to speed-boost with items — is the most impactful daily decision in empire development.

Join an Alliance and Participate in Server Wars

Alliances control territory on the server map, build shared fortresses, and coordinate rallies against enemy cities and world bosses. Alliance technology research benefits all members. Server vs. server events (SvS, Kill Events) pit entire servers against each other in point-accumulation competitions where the strongest alliances on each side determine the outcome.

Hunt Monsters and Complete Events

World bosses and roaming monsters on the map drop hero gear materials, speed-up items, and rare resources. Killing-event weekends multiply combat rewards and incentivize PvP aggression. A rotating calendar of resource-gathering, monster-hunting, and building-speed events structures the daily activity rhythm around efficient reward-maximization rather than open-ended grinding.