Evony: The King’s Return is one of the bigger empire building games that allows you to create a sprawling kingdom, equipped with military bases and other infrastructure. Creating an empire is not an easy task, but maintaining it is an even bigger challenge. In this guide, you will learn about the basics of empire building and how you can emerge as a true emperor in Evony: The King’s Return.

Choose the Right Culture in the Start

Evony: The King’s Return gives you an authentic empire building experience from around the world. Be it the European kingdoms, Asian kingdoms, or British Kingdom, you can choose any culture and build your empire around it. Each culture has several pros and cons that need to be studied in order to gain supremacy over your enemies. Cultures can provide you with basic buffs such as troop capacity, resource production, and attack damage. Some cultures can even help you defend your settlements from invaders. Here’s a short glimpse of what each culture brings to the table:

European Culture

+10% Stone Production

+5% Mounted Troop Attack

+5% March Speed to Monsters

Chinese Culture

+5% Troop Load

+5% Ground Troop Attack

+3% Research Speed

Japanese Culture

+10% Food Production

+5% Ground Troop Defense

+8% Crafting Speed

Korean Culture

+10% Lumber Production

+5% Ranged Troop Attack

+5% Healing Speed

American Culture

+5% Gold Levy

+5% Siege Machine Attack

+3% Training Speed

Russian Culture

+10% Ore Production

+5% Mounted Troop Defense

+10% Traps Building Speed

Arab Culture

+5% Gems Gathering Speed

+5% Mounted Troop HP

+5% Bonus from Offering

Remember that no culture in the game is flawless. It is true to some extent that certain cultures have more advantages than others. For example, the higher rate of lumber production in Korea can help players construct more structures for their empire. This can result in a quicker development period. There is still no top culture in the game, despite this.

Understanding the Basic Resources

Much like any other live-service game, Evony: The King’s Return also has a ton of different currencies for you to collect and use. The 3 main one’s are as follows:

• Food – It is mostly utilized for ground, range, and mounted troop training. It is also a requirement for building structures within your empire. Farms can be used to harvest crops and provide food.
• Lumber – One of the most important materials for new and renovated structures is lumber. Saw mills are used to create lumber.
• Stone – It is the training resource used to craft elite soldiers. In the early stages of the game, it is not so crucial, but as your empire grows stronger over time, you will require more stone. Quarries are used to manufacture stone.

One way to increase production is to construct new facilities or make individual upgrades to each one. Keep in mind that you can only build resource-producing structures beyond the empire’s boundaries. Another thing to note is that you can increase the amount of resources by upgrading these buildings. Your building levels are tied to your Headquarters. Focus on upgrading the latter and that will enable you to upgrade resource buildings in the future. Ensure you start upgrading the buildings during night-time or whenever you won’t play the game as they take quite sometime to upgrade. Alternatively, you can use Gems or Speed-Ups to fasten the construction process.

Academy and its Use in Evony: The King’s Return

Academy is the wholesome point of contact for you to invest in technological advancement and developments. Utilizing the Academy can increase your resource gains significantly. By using gold coins for research, you can upgrade several areas of your empire internally at the Academy. Each of the eight categories offers multiple branches of fields for further study. See “Advancement” for enhancements pertaining to resource production.

You can further increase the branches and their potency by fulfilling some conditions of the Academy. These conditions can be tied to your Academy level or individual branches as a whole. Each branch can be upgraded for a maximum of 10 times.

Solve Mysterious Puzzles to Gain Extra Resources

Outside of gaining resources from buildings, you can reap them from Mysterious Puzzles as well. Your goal in Mysterious Puzzles is to pull pins in a precise sequence and at the right moment to get past obstacles that could harm the character. Because this is a trial-and-error minigame, you will need to keep trying out numerous methods until you figure out the one that works.  

The final objective is to make room so that the character can pass the stage and go to a treasure chest. You get resources after finishing a stage, which you can finally redeem with your “Items.”

Quest Rewards

As you progress, you will be unknowingly completing quests! These are specific missions that come in different types. There are main quests, side quests, and Activity quests. You can check out all of them in the quest section located at the bottom. Complete them to get additional rewards. 

The Items menu is where you store the resources you get from these missions. Quests can award you with basic resources and Speed-ups, which can expedite in-game operations. Additionally, quests can award you with experience points (XP), which you can spend to level up your generals or yourself.

Playing Evony: The King’s Return on a bigger screen without worrying about battery drainage and smooth gameplay is highly recommended.