About This Game

Build your kingdom. Pick your battles.

Palisade is a real time territorial strategy game where you command borders rather than individual soldiers. Draw offensive orders directly on the map, manage provincial supply lines, and decide when to fortify or strike.

Make room to grow

Click or drag along borders to advance into neutral land or push into hostile territory. Frontlines shift dynamically based on troop concentration, while rivers, mountain passes, and rough terrain dictate how quickly borders move. Secure vital choke points early, or mass forces for a direct push against an enemy capital.

Keep your army supplied

• Settlements muster troops for the frontline, but each one requires continuous gold upkeep.

• Marketplaces generate gold from the surrounding territory to fund expansion.

• Castles extend your influence and increase troop capacity through completed road connections. Upgrade them to make them harder to capture.

Road networks turn isolated buildings into an efficient supply grid. Connecting settlements to castles and markets reduces maintenance costs and accelerates reinforcement. Expanding blindly without roads quickly empties your treasury.

Find a way through

• Launch a Cavalry Charge to cut a fast path through enemy territory.

• Use a Naval Landing to open a new front across the sea. Check the route and sinking risk before committing your troops.

• Build Palisades to stop cavalry and slow advancing armies while they break through.

Six campaigns with twenty two battles, plus two standalone historical battles

Play Northern Saga, Yellow Turban Rising, The Genpei War, Atlantic Voyage, The Triple Alliance, and Eternal Blue Sky. The maps draw on real geography and regional history. Scenarios range from rapid coastal raids to mountain defenses and capital sieges. Beyond the campaigns, tackle standalone engagements at Sekigahara and Nicopolis.

Choose Standard, Hardened, or Relentless difficulty. Between battles, pick upgrades for your cavalry, naval expeditions, or palisades that last for the rest of the campaign. Revisit any battle you have reached in Practice.

Set up your own Skirmish

Choose a battlefield, your realm, opponents, starting resources, and victory condition. Adjust opponent difficulty, game speed, and match rules to suit your style. Keep the seed and settings to replay the same starting layout or share it with a friend.

Play with friends

Host online matches for up to eight players across custom and historical scenarios. Play free for all battles or divide the room into teams. Create private lobbies with Steam friend invites or share a short room code.

Build and share custom maps

Create your own battlefields with the built in Map Editor. Draw terrain, elevation, and fertile ground, then place starting areas for up to eight players. Test your layout directly in the editor, play it in Skirmish and multiplayer, and share your maps through the Steam Workshop or direct file export.