Varrow: The Long Peace

A week-long multiplayer strategy game, played at your own pace.

Play the free demo above, then take a seat in a real game at playvarrow.com.

Build a kingdom. Make friends and enemies. Form alliances and coalitions. Trade with other rulers, raise armies, hire powerful specialists, and race to complete the Ritual before someone else does.

A match of Varrow unfolds over about a week, but you don't need to sit in front of it for hours. Armies take time to march, plans can be made in advance, and you can schedule your moves around your life.

It combines the territorial strategy and conflict of Risk with the trading and economic interdependence of Catan—then puts eight real people in the middle of it.

Your economy doesn't exist in isolation. Different kingdoms control different resources, creating shortages, surpluses, trade relationships, dependencies and opportunities. You might become the realm everyone depends on for Ore, finance another ruler's war, cut off an enemy's supply, or make a deal today that becomes a reason to betray someone three days from now.

The rules are simple enough to understand quickly, but the possibilities come from the people playing them.

Hire rare Retainers with unusual abilities that bend the normal rules of the game. Use them to break sieges, manipulate battles, disrupt an opponent's plans or pull off something nobody at the table expected.

Over one week, your small starting kingdom becomes part of a living political world. Borders expand. Alliances form. Coalitions rise and collapse. Friends turn on each other. Weak kingdoms find leverage. Powerful kingdoms become targets.

Eventually, someone begins the Ritual.

Then everyone has to decide whether to stop them—or use the chaos to win themselves.

Play Ranked against strangers, join Casual games with friends, or create your own lobby. Discover the world and lore of Varrow as you play.

100% free to play. Forever.

No pay-to-win.
No resources for sale.
No armies for sale.
No gameplay advantages for sale.

Victory comes from strategy, diplomacy and the decisions made by the players at your table.

Play Varrow free at playvarrow.com →

The demo on this page

Press Run game above. Short lessons teach you to play in minutes, then you can play a whole game against bots with the clock sped up. It runs in your browser, offline, with no account.

The demo is a taste. Its bots are simple computer opponents on a fast clock. The real game is a week at a table of real people, or of seven AI rulers if you start alone in Single Player.

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The demo on this page is an offline introduction: it does not connect to the Varrow server, and some rules and balance may differ from the live game.

AI disclosure: the itch demo uses AI-generated painted artwork, and some shipped code and interface text were generated with an AI coding assistant. Its offline bots are hand-written and use no LLM. Single Player on playvarrow.com uses LLM-driven rulers.

Map art: Wuggy's Classic Cartography Set by Ari-Matti Toivonen, CC BY 4.0. Ruler portraits: fantasy portrait pack by Jon Aspeheim, CC BY 4.0.

Questions and bug reports: the Varrow Discord.