4X · Turn-based strategy
Nouns Village
A little village. A whole world.
Lead your Nouns through six ages on a rotatable 3D hex world. Explore, build villages, shape a culture, and command armies against up to ten rival civilisations.
- Genre
- 4X · Turn-based strategy
- Price
- Free, no ads, no sign-up
- Ages
- 6, from Founding to Modern
- Rivals
- Up to 10 AI civilisations
- Game length
- 60 to 300 turns
- Players
- Single player
- Saving
- Autosaves every turn, plus 10 save slots
- Plays on
- Computers, and phones in landscape
What is Nouns Village?
Nouns Village is a free turn-based strategy game you play in your browser. Choose a civilisation and a leader, then guide your Nouns from the Founding age to the Modern age on a rotatable 3D hex world: explore, found villages, research, build, trade and, if it comes to it, fight.
Every world is seeded and shaped the way you choose, from Pangea and Continents to Islands, Archipelago and Ring World, in five sizes from Tiny to Huge with up to ten rival civilisations. Your units are the Nouns themselves, carrying the equipment of their roles.
There are five ways to win: send Nouns Beyond the Stars for a Knowledge victory, host the Grand Nouns Festival for Culture, take every original capital for Conquest, win through the Commons, or lead on score when the turn limit arrives.
Nouns Village screenshots
Features
A rotatable 3D hex world
Eight world types and five map sizes, from 224 to 1,520 tiles. Orbit, tilt and zoom around your empire.
48 discoveries and 48 civics
A branching tree from Seedling Science to Nouns Beyond the Stars, with Plan path to queue the prerequisites for you.
Five ways to win
Knowledge, Culture, Conquest, Commons or Score.
Up to ten rivals
Four difficulty levels from Gentle to Extreme. No level gives the computer free resources.
Governments, policies and beliefs
Five governments, twelve policies, districts, relics, beliefs and luxury trades.
Twelve wonders
From the Noggles Monument and Great Library to the Star Observatory and World Tree.
Your Nouns as units
The original Nouns models march, build and battle as your units and commanders.
Adaptive music
Original music for each age, with peace, war and festival variations.
How to play
- Open Nouns Village and choose your civilisation, leader, map size, world type, pace and difficulty.
- Press Begin and found your first village on good land near water.
- Pick a discovery (T) and a civic (C) to research, and queue buildings in your village.
- Explore with your units, found more villages and meet your rivals.
- Choose a path to victory and press Enter to end each turn.
Controls
Keyboard & mouse
- WASD / arrows
- Pan the map
- Q / E
- Rotate
- + / −
- Zoom
- H
- Home view
- Enter
- End turn
- Space or N
- Next action
- T · C
- Discoveries · civics
- Y
- Yields overlay
- Right-drag
- Plan a move route
Touch
- One finger
- Rotate the view
- Two fingers
- Pan and zoom
- Tap
- Select units, villages and tiles
Civilisations
Nouns Village questions
Is Nouns Village free?
Yes. Nouns Village is free to play in your browser, with no ads and no sign-up.
How long is a game?
You pick the pace: Blitz is 60 turns, Quick 100, Standard 150, Long 200 and Epic 300.
How many rivals can I play against?
Up to ten computer civilisations on a Huge map. Smaller maps hold fewer rivals, from two on Tiny upwards.
How do I win?
There are five victories: Knowledge (reach the stars), Culture (World Heritage and the Grand Nouns Festival), Conquest (every original capital), Commons, or the highest Score at the turn limit.
Does it save my game?
Yes. It autosaves at the end of every turn and keeps the last ten turns as checkpoints. You can also use ten named save slots and export a save to a file.
Does it work on phones?
Yes, in landscape. Drag to rotate, use two fingers to pan and zoom, and tap to select.
Does it work offline?
Yes. After your first visit you can install it and keep playing without a connection.
Ready to play?
Free in your browser on phones, tablets and computers. No download, no sign-up.
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