Back To Greece

Pick a Side

Go to a city and swear loyalty to Troy or Mycenae. Once you choose, it’s permanent unless you find a king willing to hear you renounce it. In multiplayer, every player chooses for themselves, so your friend can be welcomed into a city while you’re attacked by its guards.

Earn Glory

Gain Glory (levels 1–100) by defeating enemies and helping defend your side. Every 10 levels unlocks new rewards. Citizens respect you, guards salute you, merchants lower prices, stronger soldiers join you, and at the highest rank you earn your own honor guard. You also receive a unique title that NPCs will use when they speak to you.

Build Your Army

Recruit soldiers with coins you earn in battle. Call your warband with a key press, but keep them alive – they stay injured, need to be paid, and can leave if ignored. Veterans grow stronger over time, and fallen soldiers can be revived by a physician, but it gets more expensive each time. Tame a war horse and fit it with a chariot kit to ride into battle two abreast, faster than anyone on foot.

Worship the Gods

Choose between five Greek gods, each with their own temple, sacrifices, and powerful abilities. Every god teaches you a custom enchantment as your standing with them grows, on top of passive gifts and battlefield-changing active boons you can call down with a keypress – lightning from Zeus, a rising tide from Poseidon, and more. But gaining favor with one makes rival gods dislike you, so you can’t master them all.

A Living World

The war never stops. Armies march across the world and lay siege to cities – hold the walls long enough and the siege calls itself off, but let a garrison fall and the city changes hands for good. Famous events can happen at any time, including the Trojan Horse, Poseidon’s storms, and Zeus’s judgment. A full in-game guide book, given to every new player, walks you through all of it – nations, gold, gods, war, and exactly how to get every item and enchantment in the mod.