Legends of Honor
Legends of Honor is a free-to-play browser strategy MMO that drops you into a medieval fantasy conflict built around castle development, army management, and constant competition with other players. You grow a stronghold, raise troops, and push heroes out onto the world map to clash with marauders or rival lords, all in pursuit of honor and faction prestige.
 | Publisher: Goodgame Empire Playerbase: Low Type: Browser MMORTS Release Date: August 20, 2015 Pros: +Strong PvP emphasis. +Frequent updates and events. +Faction identity and grouping. Cons: -Noticeable pay-to-win pressure. -Interface can feel sluggish at times. |
Legends of Honor Overview
Legends of Honor is a free-to-play, browser-based MMORTS from Goodgame Studios, known for Empire: Four Kingdoms, Goodgame Empire, and Big Farm. At its core, it plays like the genre standard: you expand a castle hub, balance multiple resource types, train a variety of units, and measure your progress against other players on a shared map. It also leans heavily on a hero-led army structure, letting you assign troops to named commanders and send them out to initiate fights and complete map activities.
One of the more distinctive elements is the faction layer. Players pledge themselves to one of three groups, the Warriors of the Wild Lands, the Order of the Golden Claw, or the Knights of Ash and Shadow. These banners give your castle a clear visual identity and help steer you toward faction-aligned alliances and coordination. The inspiration draws from the tone of George R.R. Martin’s Song of Ice & Fire style of rival houses and shifting loyalties, even if the gameplay remains focused on territory, raids, and organized PvP rather than narrative quests.
Outside of your walls, the world map provides a steady loop of exploration and conflict. Heroes can travel to locate targets in the wilderness, challenge NPC threats for materials, and pressure neighboring players when you are ready to compete for position and honor.
Legends of Honor Key Features:
- City-Building Gameplay – Develop your castle through upgrades and new structures, shaping your economy and defenses to support long-term conquest.
- Resource Management – Keep production and stockpiles under control, since maintaining an army can strain supplies if you expand too aggressively.
- Hero System – Recruit and customize heroes, then attach troops to them so they can move across the map and trigger battles on your behalf.
- Player Alliances – Team up in alliances tied to your chosen faction, making it easier to communicate, coordinate offensives, and respond to threats.
- Factions – Choose between the Warriors of the Wild Lands, the Order of the Golden Claw, or the Knights of Ash and Shadow, giving you a banner, a social identity, and a natural pool of allies.
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Legends of Honor Review
Legends of Honor follows a familiar browser strategy rhythm, but it is built to keep you thinking about PvP pressure from the start. Your early hours are spent laying down economic buildings, improving storage, and setting up the infrastructure that determines how quickly you can field troops. The sense of progress is steady, and like most MMORTS titles, the real long-term pace is dictated by build timers, resource flow, and how efficiently you plan upgrades rather than how fast you can click.
Combat is primarily preparation-driven. You are not manually controlling units in real time, instead you assemble forces, select targets, and let your decisions on troop composition, hero assignments, and timing do the heavy lifting. The hero system is important because it acts as your interface with the world map. Heroes give structure to your aggression, they are the ones you send out to pick fights, hit NPC camps, and pressure rival castles. When the systems click, the game becomes a cycle of building up at home, scouting outside your borders, then striking when you have the advantage.
The faction setup adds a useful layer of identity for a browser game that might otherwise feel purely spreadsheet-like. Choosing between the three groups is not just cosmetic, it nudges you toward communities and alliance options that can shape your experience. In a PvP-first environment, having a clear “we” matters, because it increases the odds you will find support when stronger players start looking for easy targets. The best moments come from coordinated alliance play, where planning and timing matter more than raw numbers.
That said, Legends of Honor also carries the typical friction points of the genre. The interface can feel heavy, especially when you are bouncing between menus, map actions, and management screens, and performance can dip into a sluggish feel depending on browser and session. The bigger concern is monetization pressure. While you can play for free, advantages tied to spending can make competition feel uneven, particularly when you run into players accelerating progress faster than a normal pace would allow. If you enjoy MMORTS games primarily for fair fights, this is the area most likely to wear you down over time.
Overall, Legends of Honor is best for players who like long-term planning, alliance politics, and persistent map competition, and who are comfortable with the typical free-to-play strategy MMO tradeoffs. If you treat it as a social PvP sandbox where positioning and group coordination are the main goals, it delivers a solid loop that fits the browser format.
Legends of Honor System Requirements
Minimum Requirements:
Operating System: XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
CPU: Intel Pentium 4 or AMD Equivalent
Video Card: Any Graphics Card (Integrated works well too)
RAM: 512 MB
Hard Disk Space: 100 MB (Cache)
Because Legends of Honor runs in a web browser, it is designed to be lightweight and should function well on most PCs. It was tested on Internet Explorer, Opera, Firefox and Chrome, and in practice any up-to-date browser should be able to handle it without issue.
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Legends of Honor Additional Information
Developer: Goodgame Studios
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Development History / Background:
Legends of Honor is a browser based strategy game developed and published by Hamburg, Germany based Goodgame Studios, the team also responsible for Goodgame Empire, a browser strategy MMO available across PC and mobile platforms. It represents the company’s second RTS effort and was made available in beta for players in the US and Germany on August 20, 2015. Ongoing updates have been a consistent part of its lifecycle, with the expectation of a broader full release as development continues.