Stand where history was made. Relive the greatest battles.
An immersive history app: 40 battles across 7 eras, with audio narration, interactive maps and a living collection. A real-time tactical mode is in the works.
Drag to spin · scroll or pinch to zoom · tap a battle
The turning points of history
Marathon, Gaugamela, Cannae, Constantinople, Waterloo, Stalingrad: the days the world changed course.
One battle, many ways to live it
A real history app, in closed testing on Google Play today.
Audio Narrations
Battles play out as narrated scenes, not walls of text. 22 of the 40 are fully narrated today, each from one perspective for now, with a telling for every side on the way, so you can understand a battle from both armies.
Story Campaigns
12 branching campaigns from Antiquity to WWII: battles, quizzes, narration and artifacts, with decision points that bend the tale.
The Battle Globe
Every battlefield on a black and gold 3D globe: spin it, filter by era, and tap any battle to dive in.
Quizzes & Codex
280+ questions and a living Codex across 40 battles. Climb the leaderboards.
History games
Battle of the Day, a pin on the world map, comparing armies and the era quizzes. In the app also as duels against real players.
PvP, Tournaments & Clans
Ranked ELO seasons, bracket tournaments, clans, and clan-vs-clan skirmishes.
Artifact Collection
Unearth 250+ historical artifacts, each with lore, rarity, and its own unlock conditions.
Battle Pass & Seasons
Seasonal free + premium tracks. Earn Season XP by exploring, visiting sites, and competing.
From the phalanx to the tank
Antiquity
Cannae · Gaugamela · Thermopylae
Medieval
Grunwald · Hastings · Agincourt
Early Modern
Vienna · Lepanto · Poltava
Napoleonic
Austerlitz · Waterloo · Borodino
Industrial Age
Fort Sumter · Gettysburg
World War I
Verdun · Somme · Ypres
World War II
Stalingrad · Kursk · Berlin
Play the history
Free games built from our maps, portraits and battle stories. Every game draws new rounds, so you can play again and again.
Where Was the Battle?
Drop a pin where 183 famous battles were fought. Up to 5,000 points a round.
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Battle of the Day
One puzzle a day, the same for everyone. Share your grid and keep your streak.
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Which Battle Was Bigger?
More or fewer soldiers than the last battle? One wrong call ends your run.
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Put the Battles in Order
Five battles, years hidden. Oldest to newest, closer in time every round.
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Guess the Battle from the Map
Old battle maps revealed piece by piece. Name the battle before the full map shows.
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Guess the Commander
A blurred portrait and four clues. Fewer clues, more points.
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Who Won the Battle?
Thermopylae, Gallipoli, the Somme: pick the winner, or call it a draw.
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Guess the Battle
Ten scenes from inside famous battles. Which one are you in?
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Which Commander Are You?
15 questions match you to one of history's great generals.
Play ›Battles, told in full
Free deep-dives into the battles that decided everything. No app required to read.
Battles That Changed the World: 32 decisive days
From Marathon to Normandy, the turning points of history in one guide, each linked to the full story.
Greatest Cavalry Charges
From Gaugamela and the winged hussars to the doomed Light Brigade, history's most famous cavalry charges.
Battles Won Against the Odds
Fifteen times a smaller army beat a much larger one, from Marathon to Singapore, with the odds.
On This Day in Military History
Which battle was decided today, across 2,500 years.
Cannae
Hannibal's double envelopment, still taught in war colleges.
Thermopylae
Leonidas, the 300 and the stand at the Hot Gates.
Saratoga
The turning point of the American Revolution.
Grunwald
One of medieval Europe's largest battles, a fallen Grand Master by dusk.
Lepanto
The largest galley battle in history, and the end of a myth.
Stalingrad
A city fought street by street until the whole war turned.
Normandy
The largest seaborne invasion ever launched.
Explore by era: Antiquity · Middle Ages · Early Modern · Napoleonic · Industrial · WW1 · WW2
Commanders and rankings: Hannibal Barca · Hamilcar Barca · Bayezid I · Mehmed II the Conqueror · The deadliest battles in history
Survey every battlefieldMillennia of warfare
From Marathon in 490 BC to Berlin in 1945, every battle in one scroll. Tap any to open it.
Claim your starter set
Enlist now and claim a commander, a battle and an item from your chosen era on launch day. We will also send word the moment the Kickstarter goes live.
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Not a textbook. A battlefield.
Battles are narrated like a story and pinned to the real ground where they happened, and you give the orders yourself.
- Narrated like a story22 of the 40 battles have full audio narration today, told scene by scene.
- Pinned to the real groundBattlefields rebuilt from elevation data and the historical sources, so ridges, rivers and passes are where they were.
- You give the ordersDecision points in every battle, and a real-time tactical mode in development.
The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.Duke of Wellington
Bring the battlefield to your classroom, or your kitchen table
History lands harder when students command it instead of skimming a chapter. Turn any of the 40 battles into a shared lesson: the same events, the same narration and one class quiz leaderboard.
Classroom mode
Why teachers use it
Built, and building
A real app today, with a clear plan for what comes next, and your support decides how fast we get there.
In closed testing on Google Play
- Every feature above marked “In the app”
- 40 battles · 12 campaigns · 22 narrated
Kickstarter
- Back the campaign
- Unlock exclusive Founder rewards
- Vote on what we build next
What support unlocks
- Real-time tactics on real battle maps, era by era from Antiquity
- Every battle fully narrated (all 40, up from 22 today)
- A second narration viewpoint, so you hear each side
Real-time battles, taking shape
No turns, no waiting: you command your army as the fight unfolds. The real-time tactical mode is in active development, and it's exactly what the Kickstarter funds: the great historical battles rebuilt in real time, era by era.
- 01Live commandMove, charge, and hold the line on real battle maps.
- 02Terrain & formation matterRidges, rivers, and flanks decide which commander wins.
- 03Play against playersRanked duels with seasons and leaderboards, arriving with the mode.
Real-time tactics · in development
The project so far
From the first version in January 2026 to today, month by month.
History games on the site
Play history in your browser: Where Was the Battle?, Which Battle Was Bigger?, Put the Battles in Order, Guess the Battle from the Map and Guess the Commander, plus a daily Battle of the Day. Every game and quiz now sits in one place.
Scout it ›Friend challenges and a daily leaderboard
Send your Where Was the Battle? score as a link: your friend plays exactly the same battles and sees your points round by round. The daily pin has a shared leaderboard for the day and the week, anonymous, with nicknames from a preset list.
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A calendar for every day of the year
On This Day in Military History now covers all 366 days: more than 700 events with a short story, a picture or a location map and a link to our article, and the years since each battle count themselves.
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Real battlefields for the real-time mode
Battlefields rebuilt from elevation data and historical sources: maps of all seven ancient battles are done, and Grunwald is the first real battlefield already playable in the mode, where rivers and fords change how an army moves.
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A better narration player
A reading view in the app's serif type, switching between perspectives without losing your place, and markers in the battle lists showing which battles have audio.
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A refreshed site and an expanded blog
High-resolution paintings framed to each picture, a faster globe, and a much larger blog in English and Polish, with footnoted sources and period maps.
Scout it ›A learning path through history
A chronological timeline with progress for every battle, one daily review queue for spaced repetition and past mistakes, a daily XP goal and a certificate for completing each era.
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Teacher Zone for schools
Run a live class session from a ready lesson plan, starting with Grunwald, build your own quizzes, keep a class gradebook and download a lesson to run without internet.
Scout it ›Completely ad-free
We removed every ad from the app, including the optional rewarded videos. Nothing interrupts a battle, and progress stays earned, never sold.
Scout it ›A redesigned battle screen
A painted header that folds away as you scroll, fewer tabs, an animated reward summary and a moment of mastery when you master a battle.
Scout it ›Community difficulty ratings
Players rate how hard each battle is, and the battle list and battle screen show the average of everyone's ratings, counted on our server so one player cannot inflate it.
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Weather and deeper tactics in real time
The real-time mode gains seasons and weather (rain cuts sight, snow and ice change the ground, mud slows every charge) plus charge shock, braced spears, encirclement and spreading panic.
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The real-time mode begins
Work started on the live battle engine: a core that computes a battle exactly the same way on two phones, and player sync through the server, tested on two devices at once.
Scout it ›Now in closed testing on Google Play
The full app, 40 battles, with audio narration, quizzes and campaigns, entered closed testing on Google Play.
Scout it ›Three narration perspectives and the Field Dispatch
Every narration has exactly three perspectives, a neutral one and one for each side, played as separate tracks. The site launched its battle blog in English and Polish.
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Work on tactics begins
A first prototype of commanding a battle, on a hex map, tested terrain, flanks, morale with routing units, charges and veterans. Those rules grew into the real-time mode, which later replaced the prototype.
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Six new battles and a fair economy
Actium, Tours, Poltava, Trafalgar, Gallipoli and El Alamein joined to complete each era's campaign. Purchases, era unlocks and rewards moved to the server, so they cannot be forged.
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Exercises that remember your mistakes
Questions you got wrong come back in spaced repetition. Plus a daily challenge, personal stats, exercises picked by era and difficulty and a glossary when you tap a hard word.
Scout it ›A new look across the app
Several rounds of visual polish: era gold accents, achievement cards, leaderboards, the player and the home screen in one consistent style.
Scout it ›Battle mastery and chests
Every battle can be mastered, listening to a narration again earns a bonus, and rewards for quizzes and day streaks arrive in chests of different tiers.
Scout it ›Campaigns told as a story
Campaigns gained chapters with a narrative opening and a preview of every battle: the two sides face to face, with their commanders.
Scout it ›Show earlier: March 2026
The first tools for teachers
A teacher can build their own quiz, run a timed exam with a certificate, follow each student's progress and export the results to a spreadsheet.
Scout it ›A weekly league and commanders
A weekly league started, and avatars became commanders from every era, with their own tab in the player's records.
Scout it ›Show the start: January and February 2026
The start: a map, narration and a quiz
Work began in January 2026. The first version had a battle map, a battle screen with audio narration, quizzes, an artifact collection, achievements and a GPS mode that leads you to the real battlefields.
Scout it ›Help build what comes next
The app is free. Your support decides how fast the rest gets built, and below is exactly what it unlocks and what you get for it.
I'm building Echoes of Battle because history deserves better than a textbook. Every battle here is one I wanted to stand inside: to hear it, command it, and finally understand it.
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It's a real app, and it's free, because learning history shouldn't cost anything. But there is so much more to build: more battles and narration, more sides of every story, deeper campaigns, and the great battles rebuilt in real time, more than one person can carry alone. If any of this moved you, your support is how you keep it growing.
Back the project
Kickstarter is where the next chapter gets funded, with exclusive Founder rewards for the people who make it possible.
Founder rewards
- Exclusive Founder frame, badge & name color
- Exclusive legendary Founder avatar & relic artifacts
- Eras & campaigns unlocked from the start
- Your name in the in-app Credits
Founder items are exclusives, never sold in the app.
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What your funding unlocks
100% = we hit our funding goal. Every rung above is extra funding that unlocks more.
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Pledge tiers
- Exclusive Founder name color
- Your name on the Founders roll
- Backer-only research diaries and channel
- Everything in Recruit
- The Field Chronicle, a digital book of battle deep-dives and maps
- Early access: play the closed test before public release
- Exclusive Founder profile frame
- Everything in Sergeant
- High-resolution battle-map pack
- A curated collection of legendary battle relics
- Founders' Council: an equal vote on monthly picks (the next real battle, era or commander), Ask the Historian AMAs, and submit a source
- Honoured on the Patrons' Roll in the Chronicle
- Everything in Lieutenant
- The expanded Chronicle, with extra deep-dives and primary sources
- Early access to every new battle deep-dive
- An exclusive Founder relic, never earnable in-game
- Everything in Captain
- The complete relic reliquary of one era you choose
- The full Founder regalia set
- A numbered, personally signed digital edition of the Chronicle
- Everything in Colonel
- The complete reliquary of every era
- Battle Patron: fund the making of one real battle's chapter (deep-dive and map) and be honored as its Patron
- Early access to every future test
All rewards are digital: files, in-app unlocks or invitations. No shipping, ever. Founder cosmetics are exclusive and never sold, and give no gameplay advantage: no pay-to-win, everyone plays the same content. Early backers also claim a bonus Founder relic.
Supply the campaign on Ko-fi
Ko-fi is the simplest way to help: a one-time tip or a monthly membership, whatever suits you. It takes only a few dozen supporters to keep the app running and free for everyone.
The app stays free. Support just fuels what comes next: more battles, narration and campaigns.
Good to know
What is Echoes of Battle?
An immersive mobile history app. You command history's battles, listen to narration, collect artifacts and take quizzes, across 40 battles and 7 historical eras.
Is it free to play?
Yes. The app is free and you can unlock every battle by playing, using in-game currency you earn. Optional in-app purchases (currency that only speeds up unlocking, plus cosmetics and a premium Battle Pass) help fund development and give no gameplay advantage.
Why support an app that's already free?
Because “free” still has a cost: servers, new battles, narration recording, and the leap to real-time historical battles. Your support funds all of it so the app can stay free and keep growing. No content is locked behind payment; you can unlock every battle by playing; supporting is simply how you fuel what you love.
How can I support the app?
On Ko-fi you can give a one-time tip or a monthly membership, and you can cancel a membership anytime. The app itself stays free.
What does the Kickstarter fund?
The real-time tactical mode on real battle maps, full narration for every battle, a second narration viewpoint, more battles and deeper campaigns, plus exclusive Founder rewards for backers. It accelerates the roadmap.
What platforms is it on?
Android today, currently in closed testing on Google Play. iOS is planned.
Which languages are supported?
English and Polish are both fully supported today.
What do backers get?
Founder-exclusive cosmetics (frame, badge, name color, avatar, relic artifacts), eras and campaigns unlocked from the start, and a credit in the app. Founder exclusives are never sold in-store.
Get the call to arms
Enlist for launch day. We will email you dispatches from the build and call you the moment the app and the Kickstarter go live, so you can lock in Founder rewards.
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