Elvenar first impression: Is it worth playing?
Elvenar is a city-building/management browser game from Innogames, the same German company that did Forge of Empires. Elvenar hasn't changed much of the proven formula, but it has such a pleasant and...
About Elvenar
The game is instantly playable by the flexible registration segments, and the tutorial is really helping us to get into chores around immediately.
Players are able to choose from two races – elves and humans. When you build, you can see a little animation of how the buildings are being created., although the workers cannot be seen like in some RTS games.
Elvenar’s fantasy environment is impressive and lively. Residents are walking down the street minding their own business, and we can also see the different craftsmen working in their place. As soon as you play the game, you will find the music of this game very pleasant to the ears.
The interface is clean and simple to use: We can see our gold/materials/research points/diamond, and our level of development, and there are seperated menus for building, exploring, and researching.
In this game, you get a small starter area with the main building. You can start building your city with the aid of your tutorial helper. You can choose between elves and humans. Both races are similar in-game mechanics, but they are different in building designs, units, and mood.
The elves are sophisticated and love close-relation with nature, while the humans are more ambitious and rough living in an industrial-style city.
Your city needs citizens, because they’ll give gold to you as taxation. You have to connect the residences to your main building by building road. This is very important.
Next, you need a workshop to create materials for trade and goods, in the late game you can get military supplies from this establishment. Don’t forget to build sanctuaries, sculptures, and other ornaments. Like in Forge of Empires, here they are called cultural buildings and they increase the happiness and more importantly, the production rates of your citizens.
You can explore and visit the neighboring areas around your city, which can be other players’ provinces. If you explore new territory on the map, it will be either for free or for gold. You can get artifacts by negotiations or battle with enemies. You can battle armies and monster groups with a turn-based strategy combat.
Summary
This game is recommended for everyone who loved FOE or other city-building games – it’s easy, flexible, and free-to-play. In the fantasy online game Elvenar, almost every building can be upgraded and visually changed multiple times to increase productivity, becoming ever more beautiful in the process.
Elvenar is available for free on browser and mobile for Android and iOS devices.
