Ratha
The chariot
Magadha's royal chariot under its white parasol. You steer it in the campaign.
Ride out. Loop back. The land is yours.
A fast territory-conquest game set among the sixteen Mahajanapadas, the great kingdoms of ancient India. Rise as Magadha and make it the greatest power on the Ganga plain.
Free to play · Android · English
+1.3% land claimed
Magadha · 1st
Krida · How to play
One finger. One empire.
Drag anywhere to steer. Every loop you close turns new land into your kingdom.
Magadha
2.0% of the land
Land claimed +1.2%
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Ride out
Leave your land and your rider draws a trail across the plain.
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Loop back home
Return to your own land to close the loop. While the trail is open, any rival who cuts it knocks you out.
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The land is yours
Everything inside the loop joins your kingdom. Hold the most land when the time runs out.
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Ranabhumi · The battlefield
Real kingdoms. Real rivers. Real cities.
A hand-painted 3D world in the colours of the Ajanta murals: ochre plains, lapis rivers and terracotta forts along the Ganga.
Take the cities
Enclose a city to raise your banner over it. Each one gives you a fort, a respawn point and a little land around it.
Make or break alliances
Offer a treaty (sandhi) to a kingdom; it accepts if you are strong enough. Break it when it suits you. Allies never cut your trail.
Dash like the wind
Tap DASH (Vayu) for a burst of speed to close a loop before a rival reaches your trail.
See the whole war
Open the map to see every kingdom's land and plan your next ride.
Chaturanga · The four arms
Ride with the armies of ancient India
Ancient Indian texts such as the Arthashastra and the epics describe a four-part army: foot soldiers, cavalry, chariots and elephants. In Samrajya, the kingdoms take the field with all four.
Ashva
The horseman
Fast riders of the open plain, quick to strike at an open trail.
Gaja
The war elephant
Huge, slow and fearsome. In the campaign, Anga's king rides one.
Padati
The foot soldier
Spear in hand, the backbone of the army.
Bharatavarsha · c. 600 – 400 BCE
Sixteen great kingdoms. One will rise.
Buddhist texts list sixteen Mahajanapadas, from Gandhara in the far north-west to Anga in the east. Tap a kingdom to find it on the map.
Borders on the map are simplified, with today's coastline and rivers. Kamboja's location and Chedi's capital are uncertain, so the map marks them with a "?".
Abhiyan · The campaign
The rise of Magadha
Follow Magadha from its hill-ringed capital at Rajagriha to the mightiest power of the Ganga plain, chapter by chapter, with real cities as your objectives.
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Chapter I · Playable now
Bimbisara: The Conquest of Anga
Secure the heartland of Gaya, Nalanda and Pataligrama, besiege the walls of Champa and bring Anga into Magadha. Kosala and the Vajji ride as your allies.
Chapter II · Coming
Ajatashatru: War with Kosala
Chapter III · Coming
Ajatashatru: The Vajji League
Chapter IV · Coming
Udayin: Founding of Pataliputra
Chapter V · Coming
Shishunaga: The Fall of Avanti
Epilogue · Coming
Mahapadma Nanda: Ekarat, c. 345 BCE
Dates before Chandragupta Maurya are approximate. Where a story comes from Buddhist, Jain or Puranic tradition rather than firm history, the game says so.
Itihaas · History cards
Every city tells its story
Take a city for the first time and unlock its card: one fact, checked against the source printed on it.
Itihaas · Card 1 of 11
Rajagriha
in the land of Magadha
Rajagriha was Magadha's early capital, set in a valley ringed by five hills. Walls of huge undressed stones, laid without mortar, run more than 40 km along the hilltops. Bimbisara ruled from here.
Source: Britannica, "Rajgir Hills"; ASI, Rajgir
Itihaas · Card 6 of 11
Vaishali
in the land of Vajji
Capital of the Licchavis and the Vajji confederacy, governed by an assembly of clan heads rather than a single king. Mahavira was born at Kundagrama, a suburb of Vaishali.
Source: Britannica, "Licchavi" and "Mahavira"
Itihaas · Card 4 of 11
Pataligrama
in the land of Magadha
A village on the Ganga where Ajatashatru, Bimbisara's son, built a fort against the Vajjis. It grew into Pataliputra (Patna), capital of Magadha and later of the Maurya empire.
Source: Britannica, "Ajatashatru"; DN 16
Drishya · Map look
Play it your way
Switch the look of the world at any time, even in the middle of a battle. The game stays the same.
Your samrajya is waiting
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