Hive Gaming

Announcing Crownrend | A Kingdom-Building Online Strategy Game!

Hi everyone!

After an exciting period of brainstorming, building, writing, and testing, I’m happy to announce that Crownrend is ready to open its doors!

This all began as a dream between me and my partner-in-crime, @mrtats—we wanted a game we’d actually enjoy playing ourselves, rather than making a “just another blockchain game.” So we thought hard into crafting Crownrend.

I’ll spare you the walls of text, but in a nutshell: it’s an incremental, semi-idle, online strategy game. We’ve got loads of ideas and surprises up our sleeves that I can’t fully reveal yet (where’s the fun in that?), but you can bet that this will be worth it.

In the war-torn realm of Calderan, kingdoms clash for supremacy as prophecies of a supreme ruler echo through time. Forge your destiny among the embers of conflict, raise mighty armies, and build a legacy that will echo through the ages. Will you be the one to lead the continent to a new era of an empire, or will you be the one to fall?

As you’ve probably guessed, Crownrend is all about building up your own kingdom. You’ll start with a humble village—a shabby “sorry-for-a-kingdom” and set your sights on expanding into a mighty empire.

There are plenty of stats to juggle as you grow—each choice matters and can’t be undone, but just so we're all aware, Rome wasn’t built in a day! Your strategy is everything. It’s not just about having the strongest army; their morale and tactics can tip the scales. And yes, watch your borders—friends or foes might be closer than you think.

Along the way, you’ll discover items to bolster your journey. You can barter with neighboring kingdoms or take a chance on mysterious chests offered by wandering travelers. How you play is entirely up to you.

Check out Crownrend now!

Join our Discord server!

Less lorey:

Crownrend utilizes 2 tokens, DENAR and ORI. DENAR is the currency that you earn by simply... playing the game. ORI, on the other hand, is the premium currency that can only be obtained in special ways. The easiest way to obtain it at the moment is simply getting an item and "selling it" to the merchant guild. ORI is used to upgrade your existing items.

Items have certain rarities, types and tags, you can have multiple items of the same type, but you can't equip an item that has the same tag.

The game also relies heavily on PvP. You can't just upgrade your mine and call it a day, you'll most certainly be attacked and lose your precious DENAR.

Please keep in mind that everything is a constant work in progress, we'll add more features both we know we want and things that you can suggest.

For my fellow incremental game lovers, the number must go BIG.

I'll share some sneak peek screenshots below.

Check out Crownrend now!

Join our Discord server!

Comments · 41

@memess(63)· 382d
Hello, about @meowcurator reward seem pretty low these day, 0.001 per day... (370Leo + 20 Meow leo) while india-leo would pay around 0.010 LEO per day for this... i start considering changing my delegation (maybe i'm just dumb and miss understood smthg)
@tengolotodo(78)· 592d
It's a lot of fun!
@captaindingus(73)· 594d
Thought about playing... saw a few characters already botting the everloving bajeesus out of this game...

Gonna pass for now but I'll check it out
@nwothini335(73)· 595d
im not really a gamer, but this looks cool. the price for joining is fair
@bamfy(68)· 595d
"Your strategy is everything" sounds so catchy.
@maldin(47)· 595d
Just started this now to check it out. Seems like golem in its very first days. I really hope there is lot to come soon as it will not be enough to keep up interest as it is. I'm currently struggling to see where strategy is needed at the moment. That being said, I'm definitely looking forward to see what comes from this as a true kingdom building strategy game would very much be needed in this blockchain! Good luck forwards!
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@alohaed(68)· 595d
Speaking with @deathwing in the Discord just now, DENAR that is used to increase a stat, is destroyed. So most of the DENAR that is entering the system is being immediately removed through increasing stats.
@planetauto(74)· 596d
Just joined, we've completed the raids and stat'd up, looking forward to watching this evolve, thank you, by the way the the price is well worth it, dlc is double this price normally.
@planetauto(74)· 596d
Sounds interesting we'll give it a butchers, gaming is a big part of both Annabelle and my life, RTS and Turn Based figured very highly Halo Wars, Tropico, Massive Chalice, Civs and of course X Com. A reasonable price too, looking forward to seeing what you guys have done, thank you.

PS hope it's mobile too
@doombot75(64)· 596d
Great to see a new game on hive and being able to get in early. Worth the $10 risk to me to have some fun although would be good to see a plan for the future of the game too.

Let the raiding commence!
@shawnnft(75)· 596d
fun so free to play? get some onboarding for hive let's gooo?
@gadrian(76)· 596d
Great to see another game of this genre starting on Hive. I love that they aren't time-intensive, but still have a sense of progress and PvP can be fun (or not), depending on what side of the win/loss you find yourself, usually.
@kilvnrex(74)· 596d
This sounds intresting, and I'm guessing there is more to it, I joined the discord server and await more informations
@belemo(79)· 596d
I like where this is going and honestly, paying for access isn't a big deal, because I spend a lot more than $10 on games. I currently play doomsday survivor and have been playing that for over two years now, so I'm a fan of these sort of games. What I enjoy about Doomsday survivor is that the game is constantly evolving and updates regularly to ensure players are entertained. I really hope this game will also be of a similar model
@tsnaks(68)· 596d
Yess, more games on HIVE. I will definitely be taking a look into this game.
@sw-kleymer(69)· 596d
Good Post!
@bbhbot(46)· 596d
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@day1001(62)· 596d
This is something. Will check this out !BBH
@macchiata(80)· 596d
As a die hard fan of Civ and strategy games, I am willing to really give this a try. I do hope it goes beyond card game. I am checking it out and looking forward to the future development.
@travoved(68)· 596d
You created discord server for this game but why not to organize telegram channel for it?
@dd1100(67)· 596d
travian kinda of game?
@tht(73)· 596d
Congratulations. This was a surprise to be honest. I will try the game soon. I request the establishment of a community for crownrend.
@asgarth(72)· 596d
Joined ..."Terracore" vibes 😁
@tobetada(77)· 596d
so this is already the payable version? Would be nice to see info about gameplay/mechanics. Is there an intro video? Good job btw :)
@davideownzall(74)· 596d
How are you going to avoid new players (aka new born realms) getting stomped by well established empire as soon as they join the game?
@plantpoweronhive(76)· 596d
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@thegoliath(73)· 596d
Looks like it could be a good game to play, especially if much more is to come! I will have to work towards the initial payment price so I can get a start, when I have the Hive for it.

Will be checking out what else is to come

Edit: I have now gotten into the game and slowly growing, keen to see the new features and more to do!
@alex-rourke(74)· 596d
I'm going to use this next time I'm in a street fight

I'm about to take your ass to whooptown and your Denar is coming with me. Bee-ach!!
@shmoogleosukami(73)· 596d
I'm a sucker for incremental idle/semi-idle games. but not got the HIVE right now to buy in. $10 is no worse than splinterlands summoner book thing so yeah seems fine.
@mobbs(75)· 596d
Yeah I'm not paying to play a random browser game. That's more money than many decent STEAM games. Come on.

For all I know this is just yet another card game... hard pass! Nice effort though
@basilmarples(65)· 596d
good to see more games on hive. Good work! I cant say its too encouraging to see that players have to pay to get started. I feel like blockchain games shoot themselves in the foot by creating a barrier to entry so early on, when what you surely want is for everyone (the whole community) to be playing it? Thats the best marketing you can get, and amplifies the levels of fun experienced when you have a large community of excited players (not to mention more chances to make revenue off of transaction fees etc. surely?). That said Im sure you've thought about all this much more than I have and you'll get lots of people to pay the entry fee and kickstart the game. I wish you the best of luck!
@mviews(68)· 596d
Always happy to see new games on Hive. Can't wait for a first-person shooter blockchain game someday. I'll check this out too and see if it's something I can get into.
@incublus(79)· 596d
I've always been interested in these kinds of games. I used to play them on the web years ago, so why not do the same on the blockchain? Great work!
@ph1102(79)· 596d
That sounds intriguing!! The description reminds me of some old games that I enjoyed playing... Civilization, Colonization, Warcraft 2-3... Give me more games like those, and I'm hooked... 😃

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@dantrin(64)· 596d
Will there be LP for swaphive and DENAR?
@steemmillionaire(70)· 596d
I wanted to try it out, but after the first click: "to create your kingdom, a one-time payment of 16.306 HIVE is required". Brrr... felt very cold on this server!
@youloseagain(69)· 596d
Liking the look of it. Whats cost to get going?
@rishi556(72)· 596d
Boutta pull a MKBHD and tell everyone I've been daily driving this game for the last few months!