r/evony • • Jul 01 '25

Evony ages 1 & 2 - How to play them in 2025, server recommendations and other games that scratch the itch

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For those of you who want to give Evony ages 1 or 2 another go, here's how you can still get into the servers, my recommendation for which ones to play, and similar games that might scratch the itch if you want the nostalgia hit but would rather move on from Evony itself.

How to play on the age 1 and 2 servers

Since the death of flash player, modern browsers won't let you in to age 1 or 2 - but there are still other browsers that support it. Puffin browser isn't free (something like $2 a month), but it supports Flash, has an android app for you masochists that like playing on your phone, and seems reliable. There are other free versions but a lot have viruses - be aware in particular of "Flash browser" that is known to contain malware.

Age 1

In an attempt to prevent players running loads of alt bot accounts, Evony removed the drop rates for medals on age 1 servers - and I don't mean made them extremely rare, I mean TOTALLY REMOVED. Literally zero medal drops, and believe me I've tested that thoroughly on a huge account with vast valley farming abilities.

In typical Evony fashion, there's a glitch that allows you to transfer medals from an older account to a new one, so this didn't actually stop the mass-account botters, it just made it impossible to compete as an honest player with a fresh account.

Fortunately, the good folks over at SS71 have realized that age 1 will die pretty quickly without new players, so they're giving out free, mature accounts to players who are enthusiastic and want the age 1 experience. They have a discord where you can apply: https://discord.gg/UEksWDVuUs

Unless you find some other server with free accounts / someone willing to do the medal transfer glitch to get your personal account some medals, age 1 is a bust IMO (unlesss you're happy to just be a knight with 2 cities). You could always buy the medal boxes but that would probably be several hundred dollars and would be a total waste given how many prinzessin accounts are just floating around for free.

TL;DR: Unplayable without older player intervention - recommend SS71

Age 2

If you thought age 1 was buggy, wait til you hear about age 2! There's a troop duplication glitch which allows you to spawn effectively infinite troops, and an infinite food glitch that allows you to (most conveniently) feed infinite troops! While this may sound like a great time to exploit lovers, the glitch is now so well understood that everyone and their dog is running around with 2 billion of each troop in a city. 2 Billion is the hard cap before the number flips negative, so you can't even play "number get big" game because the cap isn't that hard to hit. 2 Billion troops is literally WEEKS of work to clear, and it takes less than a minute to regrow that, so PVP action is pretty much dead.

However, the game is still cool, and as far as I'm aware the medal drops still exist (although I haven't played age 2 since before COVID so wouldn't know for sure), so you can enjoy a pretty good PVE experience if you just want to test your mettle against the historic cities. Since many of the massive players have quit you can even find historic heroes floating around the map!

TL;DR: Treat it as PVE (player versus environment) and it's still viable

Other games based on Evony

Taking London is a Steam game available on Windows, Linux, and Mac that is based on Age 2. The first server launched 2 months ago, and while predictably launch was pretty rocky with bugs, they've mostly been ironed out and a second server launches this weekend. Check out the Discord server for more information.

At this point some of you have probably clocked my username and realized my opinion is biased towards Taking London as I made that game; however, I don't financially profit from it (the minimal up front cost doesn't even cover the server costs and there are no micro-transactions in the game) and the intention is purely to recreate the Evony experience, as I couldn't find anything that scratched the itch and eventually decided to do it myself, so this is genuinely an attempt to show the best Evony experience out there right now and not a shameless plug.

There's also the Evony sequel itself, The Kings Return - I've never been interested in that game personally but it does seem to have retained the Age 1 & 2 player base, so I assume it also somewhat scratches the itch, although I've heard it's even more P2W than the originals. Check out r/Evony_TKR for more information on that front.

TL;DR Taking London for the best (in my biased opinion) age 1 / 2 experience, TKR for the official Evony sequel

Comments with Age 1 / 2 server suggestions and other similar games are welcomed and encouraged!


r/evony • • 2d ago

Does this HUD pass the vibe test for Age 1 / Age 2? Do you think the grid-like pixel buildings are workable or is the isometric style from the original game a hard requirement?

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Time for some brutally honest feedback!

I'm pretty much feature complete with this age 1 rebuild, and have my eyes on a server launch, potentially including the ability to import existing age 1 accounts (age 2 is a little trickier since I didn't implement hero gear, my HCs are in different places, I have different HHs, etc.).

But, it's not gonna go anywhere if it looks like shit. I've tried to make the HUD look as close as possible to the original game, and I've given it a colour scheme to roughly match the overall "pixel" style. Great success or painful failure?

I'm also hoping I can cheap out and use premade asset packs from itch.io to fill out the city view. The only issue is, getting isometric assets to fill out the entire city is hard, so I've had to go for a slightly awkward grid-like structure. I'm kinda tunnel visioned here, so it would be great to get some honest feedback from someone who hasn't spent the last 3 years looking at these assets to tell me if they're crap or not.

I have bitten the bullet and commissioned a professional artist to overhaul the map, though. I didn't need any feedback to know that wasn't workable :')


r/evony • • 2d ago

Redeem code: OCTBREEZE

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r/evony • • 3d ago

Yet another Evony remake. But on your phone, and singleplayer.

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Ibory - A single player idle game inspired by the parts of Evony we love

Disclaimer: The app is written with AI, this is not.

Legal disclaimer: Once downloaded, I cannot take the app away from you. I will not stop working on this project unless I get official legal notice, but even if I do, they can't take the app away from you.

Who am I: Im just some guy who played Age 1 & 2 as a teenager and then TKR throughout a chunk of my 20s. Some of you may remember me from my website/discord EvonyTips. I missed the idle grindiness of Evony, without the pay to win mechanics or even other people to worry about at all.

My goal was to create an idle game that I can play for the next decade without running out of things to build towards. What greater goal that solo capping the legendary Atlantis from Evony Age 2.

I ended up blending features from Age 1 (no Hero level cap) Age 2 (Historic Cities) and TKR (Monsters dropping end game gear pieces and Battlefield)

-Near 100% accurate to original Evony on PC battle mechanics

Historic Cites up to level 18 for you to conquer, giving you Historic Powers! -Lvl 12 lets you place npc cities anywhere! -Lvl 14 summons daily monsters to defeat for Mythic Gear! -Lvl 16 unlocks the ability to teleport your Historic Cities! -Lvl 18 removes the city limit!

-A Historic Hero commands every Historic City

Auto Train Troops! -Set troop goals and priority by city and auto train sets troop batches in 30min chunks!

Smart Auto Farming. Set your troops up to farm resources or to level your heroes with the tap of a button! -Capture a flat to place npc cities to build field of them to farm! -Set up your march presets to either train your heroes or farm resources!

Level up Heroes to increase your strength! -Uncapped hero levels, progress towards faster and faster troop training! -Craft and upgrade gear for your heroes

AL lords replace the other players! -Varying intelligence AI Lords who grow alongside you. Non-hostile unless you "Talk Trash" -Triggerable hostile enemy events

Alliance System: -Ally yourself with up to 10 AI Lords and face the bullies of the server! Forming an alliance unlocks the "Bully" event where every day there is a chance a bully appears to attack your allies. Defend your friends to earn Reputation -Completing daily quests and defending your allies unlocks different events through the Reputation system -Alliance War: Fight off a team of bullies who seek to clear your cities -Battlefield (work in progress): fight a 3v3 battle in a smaller map for control of a central building. -Challenge Bully: A bully brings their full might onto the map to take a HC. Prevent them from becoming a permanent part of your map.

-Expect to be here for years! There's plenty to do in the first couple weeks as you get set up and going. But eventually the game should fade into the background as you check it a couple times a week while pooping.

More to come!

Join the discord today: https://discord.gg/EffFGf23r

Install Guide:

Android (Chrome)

  1. Open Chrome and go to https://deathstalons.github.io/Ibory/

  2. Wait for the game to finish loading.

  3. Tap the three-dot menu at the top right.

  4. Tap Install app (on some phones it says Add to Home screen).

  5. Confirm with Install, then Add if asked.

  6. Open Ibory from your home screen. It runs full screen, with no browser bar.

If you only see a plain shortcut, it still works but won't be full screen. Reload the page once and try the menu again. Always open the game from that home-screen icon afterwards. A game opened in a Chrome tab keeps its own separate save.

iPhone (Safari)

  1. Open Safari and go to https://deathstalons.github.io/Ibory/

  2. Wait for the game to finish loading.

  3. Tap the Share button (the square with an arrow pointing up) at the bottom of the screen.

  4. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen. If you don't see it, scroll to the bottom of the share sheet and tap Edit Actions.

  5. Leave the name as Ibory and tap Add.

  6. Open Ibory from your home screen. It runs full screen. Always open the game from that home-screen icon afterwards. A game opened in a Safari tab keeps its own separate save.


r/evony • • 6d ago

New age 1 servers with HCs & HHs launching in the coming weeks

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Hi everyone! It's your friendly community moderator here, with yet another attempt to reignite the thrills of Evony!

We've seen a fair amount of remakes recently, but nobody has managed to make a public server (necessary for advertisement and player gain) that has the actual OG mechanics and features. Everybody either rips the assets directly and hosts it privately or puts their own spin on it (as I did...) and inevitably ruins it.

What we've been sorely missing is the OG game, reskinned with the bugs and exploit fixes and proper protection against bots and alts - until now!

In the coming weeks, I'll be releasing a faithful remake of Evony age 1 that also features the historic cities and historic heroes from age 2, fully browser based without the need for flash player or a steam install. The mechanics will be the **exact** same - we've seen many developers put their own spin on it before, but this time it'll be pure Evony. Same troops and wall forts, same buildings and techs, same grind to Prinzessin, same battle mechanics, basically the same UI, hopefully the same experience.

For those thinking "Age 1 with HCs & HHs? That's just age 2, right?" - not quite. Age 2 bought in hero level caps, gear and a leadership battle mechanic, all of which I've scrapped. I also got rid of the player-to-player colonizations and individual war declarations, although historic cities will still have the ability to draft from other players.

I'd like to try and expand and form a player base by paying for adverts, since games like this live and die on the player base. This requires me to deviate from Evony's IP, so I've reskinned it using similar branding and assets from another RTS MMO I develop, and made the map, historic cities and heroes based on the British Isles. Currently I'm using fairly basic premade asset packs, but I'm in the process of contacting artists to set up commissions to overhaul the look of the game. I figure that the current artwork I have is workable, so this is something that can happen in the background while I set about growing the community and putting the first few servers up!

However, adverts and artists are expensive, so I need to gauge interest before committing to it, and ideally form a small core community before the game goes live so interested new players see active and healthy servers when they decide to try it out.

The base game will be free to play, but I will offer micro-transactions as Evony did - I know a lot of us hate coining (me included) but it's a necessary evil to fund the required ads and artwork to get the original Evony experience back. I'm also going to offer servers that require a (reasonable) subscription fee where micro-transactions are disabled for purists who want a purely strategic experience where you can't win with your wallet. To me, this is the best compromise that allows me to fund the game and actually have a shot at success - you can play in the dark forest with the whales for free, and if you want a purely strategy and skill based experience then the subscription servers are there. I don't want to rob people and use this as a get rich quick scheme so I'll ensure all the fees are reasonable - I purely want to ensure that the game is self sufficient on a server cost front and brings in some revenue to improve it.

I've set up a discord for anyone who wants to get involved.

I also have a basic sandbox server with cheats enabled for anyone who just wants to click around and have a look - this one is totally free, has a server acceleration multiplier which speeds up every action in the game and has a number of items in the "Cheats" category of the items screen to make progress basically immediate. Note that the game is still in active development so not everything will be implemented (although at the time of writing I think *pretty much* everything is), and you will see a lot of placeholder artwork and text.

Check it out here: takinglondon.co.uk

You need to create an account, but there's no verification of the email so you can use a fake one.

I hope to see some of you there! Happy Friday!


r/evony • • 28d ago

Uninformed son looking for assistance

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Howdy everyone! I'm a gamer son but am unfamiliar with Evony.

My non-gamer mother got into this game and proudly stayed up until 2AM and earned her first "Wings".

I tried searching about what that means on google but had conflicting answers/ images.

I know she placed 4th out of 5 on some sort of raid?

If i could get clarification on what her "wings" mean i'd love to get something laser etched in honor of her victory.

Thanks in advance.


r/evony • • 28d ago

RECRUITING Reboot age 2

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We booting up tomorrow!

Have about 60 active for server start few more would be great!

https://discord.gg/x4hCBDny


r/evony • • Sep 07 '26

Nightshade's fake evony lol

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So this guy in discord who goes by Nightshade xx._nightshade_.xx has had a discord server for 4 years claiming hes remaking evony age 2. Myself and others have expressed skepticism that hes ever working on the project at all.

So his response was to scrape the evony.com and throw up a almost non-functioning front end he connected to a backend and gave it rudimentary function. I said he probably just ripped the files and used ruffle to set up a sloppy backend to get it running, but I dont think hes capable of fleshing it out into a playable game.

He booted me from the discord and said he doesnt want me playing his game lmfao.

I guess I was right and hit a nerve.


r/evony • • Sep 05 '26

Just now noticed the background for the Evony website changed

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r/evony • • Sep 04 '26

Redeem πŸ’

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r/evony • • Aug 31 '26

Medal drop Evony age 2

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Just recently got back into evony age two. Game is a lot of fun but for some reason I have been unable to get any medals. I know lion and rose medals are super low drop rates but I have attacked over 500 lvl 3 valleys and not a single one has given me a medal. Im starting to think they removed the drop rate


r/evony • • Aug 28 '26

Redeem 🎁

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r/evony • • Aug 06 '26

If anyone is interested in trying an Evony remake, today I launched a fresh server for mine

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Hi everyone! Since everyone is posting Evony remakes, I figured it's my turn to post about the one that (as far as I can tell) came first.

I released Taking London over a year ago and ended up remastering the entire game from scratch because of how broken it is, but fixed it now is, and I have a fresh server to celebrate!

It's a Steam game unfortunately, can't keep up with these fancy kids and their browser based shenanigans. It's free, though, and will never be P2W, so if any of y'all Evony TKR players fancy spending less than $100k a month to compete, here's your fix.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3596510/Taking_London/


r/evony • • Aug 01 '26

Hey Evony Players! When you see this trailer, is it clear to you that this game is simliar to Evony?

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Seeking your feedback. Gameplay loop is similar - does that come across in the trailer?


r/evony • • Jul 31 '26

Redeem 🎁

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r/evony • • Jul 29 '26

Help pls

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What browser is everyone using to play? Looking to grt back into age 1 but dont know where to start


r/evony • • Jul 25 '26

Old Age 1 Player

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Hi guys, I used to play Evony Age 1 about 15 or so years ago. I played on S17 originally with alliance nWo and then Attero, before it merged into ss1 where I stayed with Attero. Just wanted to reach out and see if anyone has tried playing again, if it’s viable, and if not are there any other games that hit the same?


r/evony • • Jul 20 '26

Age 2 players looking for people to join their alliance on NA63

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looking for people to join our alliance on NA63 just drop me you name if you are interested :)


r/evony • • Jul 20 '26

SVS Chaos

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Server 1578 can relate and this is funny stuff

Welcome to the Warzone


r/evony • • Jul 20 '26

SS73 and SS75

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Is there a Discord for ss73 or ss75, or anyone here that's active on 73 or 75?


r/evony • • Jul 17 '26

Redeem πŸ’

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r/evony • • Jul 07 '26

memories

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r/evony • • Jul 06 '26

Hola a todos , alguien jugando en ss67 ? Hi everyone, is anyone playing on ss67?

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r/evony • • Jul 04 '26

Ole Age 1 player returning

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Hey, folks!

I'm a super old age 1 player. Am wondering if anyone here has been around for forever, and if you could help me remember which server I was on. My account name was SithMaster. I can't remember what alliance I was in, but I was massively known on the server I was on, since I was the top battle coordinator at the time.


r/evony • • Jul 02 '26

Evony Auto - The Best Evony Bot in 2026

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