Heraldmoor

The quests

Each quest is told through conversations where you choose your replies. Get Millhaven’s watermill grinding again in Cogs for the Mill, prove a spicer is selling short weight in Thornwall market in Short Measure, recover a wounded king’s messenger’s satchel from the top of the pass in The Messenger’s Satchel, help a Greenvale farmer see his herd through the winter in Martinmas, and earn your name on the King’s roll at Wardbury, the muster field, in The Muster Roll. Your quest journal shows what each one needs and can walk you there.

The bosses

Wrothtusk (level 32) at Harrow Wood, the Shadow Drake (level 52) at Drake’s Rest and the Mound King (level 74) at Crowmound in the Wildlands. Fight one alone or with up to four friends; its strength grows with your band. Its big attacks light the ground red before they land, so you have a moment to move, and it changes how it fights as it weakens.

Falling in a boss ring costs you nothing: you wake by the altar, out of that fight. Everyone who did their share gets a chest. The first band to fell each boss in a week is cried through the land and paid double, and the hall of fame keeps the fastest kills.

The weekend raid

Every Saturday and Sunday evening, at 7pm UK time and again at 8pm US Eastern, raiders camp in the meadow south-west of Millhaven, beyond the castle, in three waves. Everyone who helps defend the town shares the reward.

How to start

  1. Open Play now in your browser.
  2. Pick a name, choose how your character looks, and you’re in Millhaven, the capital, across the market square from the King’s castle.
  3. Talk to the Guide by the fountain for your first task.
  4. To keep your character, add a password in Settings, then Account.

At a glance

Price
Free to play. Nothing in the game is sold for power.
Plays on
Any up-to-date web browser: iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, Chromebook, Windows and Mac.
Download
None. You can add it to your Home Screen for a full-screen app icon.
World
288 × 672 tiles: the safe Kingdom with eight towns and villages, the Southmarch below it with Wardbury, the King’s muster field, the Wildlands across the middle where players can fight, and the frozen Hoarfells in the far north, with the richest resources and a single hamlet.
Combat training
Wardbury’s drill yard, 5 minutes’ walk from Millhaven: pells, dummies, a quintain, archery butts and a sparring ring, with monsters graded by distance all round it.
Skills
13 to level: Attack, Strength, Defence, Hitpoints, Archery, Woodcutting, Mining, Fishing, Cooking, Smithing, Fletching, Firemaking, Leatherworking.
Horses
Every player can claim a free horse at the Royal Stables and ride it anywhere, 12 coats to choose from.
Adventure
5 story quests, 3 boss fights for 1 to 5 players, and a town raid every weekend.
Pace
The world moves in 0.6-second ticks, the steady rhythm of classic tile-based MMOs.
Players
One shared world: trade face to face, duel, group up, chat and meet at weekend events.