Landfall

Cross the ocean. Found a new nation.

Landfall is an original turn-based strategy game of the age of sail. Plant colonies, put every colonist to work, trade with the old world, deal with rival powers and native nations, and in the end defy your King.

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A walled colony on the coast with ships in its harbour

Jamestown in 1770, on the eve of revolution.

The game

From one ship to a free country.

A full campaign from 1492, or a short one that starts in 1770 with four grown colonies ready to declare independence.

Five nations

Sail for England, France, Spain, the Netherlands or Hungary. Each has its own advantage, home port and way of building.

Colonies run person by person

Every colonist has a trade. Put farmers on fields and smiths in the forge, and see exactly what each will make next turn.

Trade across the Atlantic

Limited holds, crossings that take turns, prices that move with what you sell, taxes that rise, and trade routes that run themselves.

Neighbours with their own minds

Eight native nations and three rival powers trade, make demands, ally, and go to war by land and by sea.

Independence

Ring the liberty bells, seat a Continental Congress, declare, and hold out against the King's expeditionary force.

Nothing to install

It runs in the page. No account, no ads, no purchases. Your saved games stay in your browser.

The colony screen with workers, buildings and the warehouse
Inside a colony.
The harbour of Bristol with a merchant ship at the quay
The home port.
The harbour of Fiume with a caravel under a green flag
Fiume, home port of Hungary.
How to play

A guide walks you through the first voyage.

Choose New expedition, pick a Crown and leave "Guide me through the first voyage" ticked. You need a computer with a recent browser (Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari), a keyboard and a mouse. The first load is about 40 MB.

  • Right-clickSend the selected unit to a square
  • EnterEnd the turn
  • BFound a colony
  • OOpen the colony
  • USail to Europe
  • F2 F3 F4 F6Europe, colonies, Congress, diplomacy
  • F5 / F9Quick save and quick load
  • F1Every key and rule in the game

This is an early version: expect rough edges.

Privacy

Your game stays on your device.

Landfall has no account, no ads and no analytics. This page and the game load nothing from other sites and send nothing anywhere: saved games and settings are kept by your browser on your own device, and clearing this site's data deletes them.

Landfall is an original game. Its code, models, maps, sound and text were made for it. Built with Godot Engine; the lettering is Fraunces. Licences.