Estate Wars

One city. Every estate in it belongs to a real player, and every one of them can be taken.

Estate Wars is a gang strategy game played in one shared, live city. You build an estate, train a crew and send them through the streets to take what other bosses have. They'll do the same to you.

Every hit takes real time. Your troops march across the map, round crashes and fires, and the boss you're hitting can watch them coming. Hold them off at the gate, or wake up to a report that says you didn't.

YOUR ESTATE
• Start with a Capital and build the Mansion up to level 10: Vault, Armoury, Garage, Library, Guard Post, Front Gate, and a Wall lined with traps and guards.
• Fill the lots around it with Apartments, Restaurants, Steel Mills and Cement Factories to keep the cash and goods coming in.
• Run up to five estates: Capital, Freight Yard, Chinatown, Industrial Row and Uptown. Each new one needs a Deed, made from 100 Bonds, and has a building no other type gets.
• Make it look the part. Your blimp, laser show and victory fireworks are on the map for the whole city to see, and your calling card gets sprayed on every estate you beat.

YOUR CREW
• Nine kinds of troop, from Thugs to Professionals, and no one type beats everything. Scout first, then send the right ones.
• Every troop carries a gun into the fight. Lose the troop, lose the gun.
• Cars, vans, coaches and trucks get them there faster. Armoured Trucks set the traps off before your troops walk in. Artic Trucks carry 50 troops each and bring the loot home.

TAKING THE CITY
• Raid other bosses for their cash and goods. Keep hitting one of their other estates and you can raze it, and take what was in its Vault.
• Take rackets, from a Betting Shop up to a Shipping Line. They pay out twice a day for as long as you hold them.
• Fight over landmarks. Hold Meridian Tower and you see every march within 30 blocks. Hold Wall Street for more cash and cheaper trades. Hold Kingsgate Stadium and free troops turn up every match day.
• Every fight ends with the report: who you sent, who went down, who got locked up and what you took.
• Climb the Power rankings, from Corner Kid to Kingpin.

YOU'RE NOT ALONE
• Pick one of five gangs. Your gang can't hit you. Everyone else can.
• Run a crew of up to 50 bosses. Send each other troops and goods, or park your troops in a mate's Guest House.
• World, gang and crew chat, for planning hits or just beefing your enemies.

AFTER HOURS
• The Golden Ace casino: a free Lucky Chance spin every day, plus blackjack and the horses. Take the casino itself and it pays you every 6 hours.
• Trade on the Exchange. The whole city shares one price, and every trade moves it.
• Throw a block party outside your gate to turn spare stock into Respect.

EVENTS
• Events bring their own jobs, daily check-ins, a shop and prizes for the top bosses. At Halloween, hazmat crews flood the map and a leaking Power Station is up for grabs.

GOOD TO KNOW
• Free to play. Diamonds are optional, for estate looks, speed-ups and more, and you can earn them from jobs, achievements, the daily spin and events.
• No ads. Ever.
• New bosses can't be raided for their first week, or until Mansion 5. Hit someone first and that ends early.
• Online only. One account on all your devices (except smart watches).

Recent changes:
New
- Billboards: rent a board in the city and put up your name or your crew's.
- Radioactive Halloween event.
- New trains, lit up at night.

Fixed
- Menus and labels no longer overlap on phones with a large font size.