Clan and Crown

Clan and Crown is a strategy and simulation game in which you start as a commoner and seek to rise to Consul through trade, marriage and political campaigns. You build a family, develop its influence across the city and can pursue the position of magistrate for your children. If elections do not secure the position, you can attack the target city with an army and subdue hostile families by force.

Grow your family

After creating your family, you marry and have children, expanding the family tree. Children progress from birth through kindergarten and university, gain workplace experience and can take control of industries. They can build reputations and run for city magistrate, helping expand the family's power.

As your family grows, events can include troublesome children, assassination attempts by other families, business competition and betrayal by family members. Other family events include weddings, funerals, accidents, children causing trouble or doing good deeds, studying abroad, and children dying.

Build an industrial network

The game has 13 industries, containing 70 businesses that you unlock through the tech tree. Your children can work in these industries, extending the family's influence across the city.

You can mobilize your clan to form alliances, seek revenge, wage wars, uncover or send spies, negotiate peace, bribe magistrates, stage coups, impeach or assassinate officials, support campaigns, defect, seize land, loot, manipulate prices, smuggle arms, traffic people, and negotiate imports and exports.

Govern the city

Once your children become magistrates, you can recruit women to improve family genetics, attract talent and investment, collect taxes, meet people with special abilities, buy and sell official positions, loot treasures, trade freely or by force, liberate or enslave residents, carry out massacres and build water conservancy projects.

Governing also brings challenges, including shortages, rising prices, resident complaints, law enforcement disputes, resistance, unemployment, unrest, rumors and migration. Neighbors may ask for help, while natural or man-made disasters can require emergency rescue.

Events and activities

Events include epidemics, economic crises, production bonuses and penalties, and resident riots. Hostile families may attempt assassinations, kidnappings, robbery or infiltration, or pursue peace negotiations and alliances. Strong family influence can also bring events tied to city governance, and cities may have functional defects.

Alongside politics and conflict, you can race horses and open mystery boxes.