The game allows players to play the roles of historical forms of warriors and soldiers, including knights, samurai, Vikings and since October 2018 the Chinese Wu Lin, within a medieval setting, controlled using a third-person perspective. The game is strategy based in which players has to develop and expand their cities evolving from the Stone Age. The city has houses that provide coins and population, production buildings that provide supplies, buildings that produce goods, and lastly the decorations and cultural buildings that provide happiness. Forge points, with a meter that refills in time, (one forge point per hour up to 10 at a time), allow you to research technologies, which unlock new buildings, more building space and other bonuses. Forge Points also let you contribute to great buildings, which can be assembled when a player finds the correct blueprints.There are special buildings as well, that may be acquired in special events, Daily Challenges,and the antiques dealer, who buy things for trade coins, and sells them for more. Some may even have to be purchased with gems, a currency that is harder to acquire..