If you remember the early MMORPGs — the isometric camera, click-to-attack, skills that grow slowly, gear ladders and boss runs for a single rare drop — Ancient Warriors: Order of the Seal was made for you. It is the same formula, except the world belongs to one player: no queues for the boss, no bots and nobody else standing on your hunting spot.
The game at a glance
- Genre: top-down RPG in the spirit of the classic MMOs.
- Mode: single-player, works offline. An expanded online version is planned.
- Platforms: Windows (free and ad-free) and Android (coming soon to Google Play, free, with ads).
- Price: free. No in-game purchases.
- Languages: Russian, English, Ukrainian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, German, French and Turkish.
What it’s about
A storm wrecks the ship Dawn on the reefs of Kaldar island, and your hero comes to on the sand — no weapon, no armour, no money. The island teaches you to survive, and then a boat takes you to the mainland, to the city of Riverhollow. Under its old cemetery lies a crypt that an order sealed a hundred years ago, along with its own last master. The seal is cracking, the dead in the cemetery are growing restless, and the story quest “The Seal of the Order” leads you down to the Necromancer.
Around the city lies a whole continent: a steppe full of barbarian camps, the elves’ village and fortress, the dwarves’ mines under the northern range, the ruins of the Ashen Spire, the renegades’ castle and the vast Necropolis. All of it is on the world maps.
How it plays
Old-school combat. Click an enemy and your hero walks up and attacks at his weapon’s own pace. Where you stand matters: every weapon has its own reach, arrows miss more often the farther the target, and good armour can absorb a blow entirely. Monsters play by the same rules — archers shoot from afar, shamans heal themselves and bosses call in help.
Skills grow by doing. The more you swing a sword, the better you get with a sword; magic level grows with the mana you spend. Each of the four vocations has its own strong skills, and that is the biggest choice in the game — more in the guide “Knight or mage”.
Gear is a ladder. Every kind of weapon and armour has rungs, each with its own level requirement: from the dagger in the crate on the beach to blades you can only take off a boss. There is weight and carrying capacity, hunger, torches for the dungeons and ammunition for archers.
Quests that send you across the world. Every trader in Riverhollow has an errand of his own, and each one sends you somewhere new — to the cemetery, to a barbarian camp, down the road to the castle, into the ruins on the cape.
How it differs from an online MMO
| Classic MMO | Ancient Warriors | |
|---|---|---|
| Other players | Competition for hunting spots and bosses | The world is yours alone |
| Internet | Required | Not needed |
| Subscription and purchases | Often | None |
| Pace | Set by the server | Play for 15 minutes or a whole evening |
| Saves | On the server | On your device; on Android, a copy in Google Play Games |
Who will enjoy it
Anyone who misses Tibia-like games but doesn’t want to spend evenings queuing for a boss. Anyone who likes seeing the numbers — damage, drop chances, experience to the next level — and building a plan out of them. And anyone who wants a relaxed RPG on a phone or laptop that doesn’t need a connection.
Where to start
Download the game, create a hero and play through Kaldar — the tutorial takes about an hour and explains everything as you go. Keep the island map handy, and on the mainland, the levelling guide and the encyclopedia with every monster, item and quest.
Read next
- Classes Knight or mage: which class to pick as a beginner Comparing the four vocations in Ancient Warriors — knight, mage, ranger and druid: health and mana, weapons, key spells and play style. Which class suits you.
- Maps Full map of Kaldar island Map of Kaldar, the starting island: every zone in order, monsters and their levels, three caves with hoards, five survivors, the quests and the way to the boat.
- Guide How to level up fast in Ancient Warriors Where to hunt at every level, which quests pay the most experience, why the training camp matters and how to avoid losing exp on death — from the island to level 60.
