The Tartaria emblem: a horsehair sulde banner before a setting sun

TARTARIA

HEIRS OF THE HORDE

Lead a steppe dynasty across fourteen centuries, one khan at a time. Win short tactical battles with the real tricks of the horse peoples, and when your khan falls, play on as the heir.

Best on a desktop or laptop browser. Saves stay on your device. Coming to the App Store and Google Play.

The feigned retreat

Tactics that feel clever

Every hit is shown before you commit. No dice. Flank from the side for +25%, from the rear for +50%. Charge in a straight line. Break their morale and they rout.

Bait, then ambush

Horse archers strike and ride away. Proud enemies give chase, fall into disorder, and run onto your lances. Disciplined troops will not take the bait, so the trick gets harder through the centuries.

A dynasty, not a hero

Khans age, take wounds and die. Choose an heir at the Kurultai. A weak claim means civil war or a split horde. Traits pass down the bloodline.

History you absorb by playing

From the Göktürks to Temüjin, the Golden Horde, Kazan and the last khans of Crimea. A codex of more than a hundred entries, with Chronicle and Legend clearly apart.

From the steppe

A battle on a grass steppe with horse archers and lancers
Battle: tap to select, tap to preview, tap again to commit
The overworld map of the Mongolian plateau
The overworld: one turn is one season
A codex page about the feigned retreat
The codex: Chronicle and Legends
Chapter select showing six eras of the steppe
Six chapters, 546 to 1783

Play it

Browser

Runs in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari. Nothing to install.

Play now

macOS

Universal build for Apple silicon and Intel. Unsigned: right click the app and choose Open the first time.

Download .zip

Windows

64-bit. Unzip and run Tartaria.exe. SmartScreen may ask you to confirm, since the build is new.

Download .zip

Linux

64-bit x86. Unzip, mark Tartaria.x86_64 as executable, and run it.

Download .zip

iPhone and iPad

Coming to the App Store.

Coming soon

Android

Coming to Google Play.

Coming soon

For viewers of The Observation Lounge

Tartaria is made for the community around The Observation Lounge. The old maps called it Great Tartary. The game tells you what the chronicles say, and keeps the legends in their own pages.

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