A battle on the road at dusk: your men and theirs clash under a red sun

UP THE KEEP

Hold the line

Dig the ore, raise your men and send them up the road. Hold your line, break their keep, and take the land one territory at a time.

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Free. Plays in the browser on a phone, a tablet or a computer. No account needed.

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The trailer: real battles from the game, with its own music.

A whole campaign up one road

Every territory is a fight between two keeps. Each one teaches you a new man and a new trick, and then the camp across the field uses it against you.

  • 30territories in three chapters
  • 14kinds of men to raise and upgrade
  • 3bosses: the Warden, the Matriarch and the Colossus
  • 3difficulties, and an Endless Night

How it plays

Easy to start and hard to master. Your first battle teaches you the whole game in a couple of minutes.

Dig

Diggers work the seams by your keep. Everything you buy is paid for in ore, so start with more of them than you think.

Raise

Cudgels hold the line, Longbows shoot over it, Pikemen brace against a charge. Masons, Sappers, Bulwarks, Molemen and more join as you go.

Push

Hold back, or send the lot up the road. Break their walls, knock down their keep, and the next territory opens on the map.

From the road

Real screens from the game, as it plays today.

The campaign map: a road across green country with keeps and stars
The campaign: thirty territories up one road, with stars to win on each.
Pikemen and cudgels fighting in a green field
The line holds, and a thrown spear meets the charge.
The Armory: upgrade trees for the keep and the men
The Armory: three tiers for every man, and a tree for your keep.
Your keep in the snow with diggers and archers
Your keep in the snow, the seams worked, the archers out.

Play it anywhere

Your progress lives on your device. Use a save code to carry it to another one.

In the browser

Chrome, Safari, Edge or Firefox, on anything with a screen. Turn a phone sideways.

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Android

The Up the Keep app. Download it, open it and allow the install when your phone asks.

New in version 2.2: fixes a crash when the app opened, and fits the Galaxy Fold’s inner screen. Had the old app? Download it again — your progress stays.

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iPhone and iPad

Open upthekeep.com/play in Safari, tap Share, then Add to Home Screen. It opens full screen like an app.

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Privacy

The short version. The whole of it is our Privacy Policy.

  • No account, no ads, no tracking, no cookies of our own. Your progress stays on your device.
  • Battle results are sent without anything about you: which territory, which difficulty, won or lost, how long it took, and a random number your bank made up. They help us balance the game, are kept 90 days, and can be switched off in the game’s SETTINGS.
  • The BUG button sends only what you choose to send: your note, a picture of the game screen if you attach it, the game’s state, your screen size and browser. Reports are kept 12 months.
  • Save codes keep a game’s progress on our server for seven days, or until the code is used.
  • Nothing is sold or shared. To have anything deleted, write to support@upthekeep.com.