From the makers of the highly popular game Travian, comes a new browser game unlike any other: Travians. Travians is a browser game in which you take the challenge of living the everyday life of a villager in the universe of Travian.  Not only can you lead your villager to getting an occupation, but also can build your own home, join a guild, and take part of fighting and recreational games.

When you register, you can choose from three tribes: Romans, Gauls, and Germans.  The look of your villager will change depending of which one you pick.  After you choose a tribe and gender, you’re ready to play. You’ll notice upon login in that this game is very similar to the Sims.  You are given a house, a pet pig and access to a village.  You can gather resources and then sell them to get bronze, the in-game currency.  You’ll need this to buy tools, armor, weapons or to training to get an upper hand fighting.  When you gather resources, you use occupation points which generate every 45 minutes. After an occupation point has been used, it turns into an action point. Action points can be used to play minigames such as blackjack, tic-tac-toe, and battleship which you play with other players. By performing community service, you get social points which are used to upgrade your home. You can choose from a range of furniture or even get a bigger house if you so desire.

With every passing real day, your villager’s will increase. After reaching 111 days of age, your villager’s generation ends. You then have to create a new villager.  Luckily, all belongings are passed down, including house, money, and tools.

As with any RPG, there are quests which you must complete to level up.  If you have any questions about any of them, you can access the support chatroom available on the main screen.

On the toolbar, you will notice 4 bars: hunger, need to sleep, fun, and higiene.  These needs can easily be satisfied by eating, sleeping, playing minigames or taking a bath. Your villager won’t starve if not fed. If you gather resources when hungry, you will not get all the resources you would usually get.  Similarly, if your villager smells due to lack of hygene, all prices will be much higher.

In the begining, this game was fun.  Playing blackjack and tic-tac-toe with friends was entertaining. Also making sure your villager was fully satisfied had a fun sense of accomplishment.  But then you stop caring. Simply put, this game lacks a hook factor.  Your need of fulfillment will not be satisfied.

Second Opinion – By LordLComet

Travians is a browser-based real-time role playing game developed by the company that created Travian.

Travians is more social than the original game, with a focus on communication rather than war.A chat box is permanently displayed and the use of messaging is encouraged. You can add other players to your “friends list”. Players can join clubs and guilds, create blogs, and play a number of mini-games.

As with the original Travian, players choose a tribe from Romans, Gauls or Teutons.The resources of wood, clay, ore and grain are available. Additionally, there are 6 secondary resources: bread, iron, coal, boards, bricks, and flour.

Rather than simply building clay fields, your character in Travians can take that clay, create pottery items, and sell those items for copper. 100 copper coins makes a silver and 100 silver points make a gold coin. Apart from money, the game also uses “social points” which you get from playing in-game minigames such as tic-tac-toe and doing social actions such as washing dishes. Social Points are used to buy furniture in you virtual house, or even buy a new house.

The game is long term, you need occupation points to do actions such as mine ore. Occupation Points come with time, 45 minutes per OP. After you use an OP, you get an Action Point, which is used for social point benefits such as minigames and such.

The game is free to play, though as with the original Travian, there is the option to make payments to gain access to extra features and benefits. In Travians, Diamonds are bought instead of Gold. There is also a Travians Plus which is the Gold Club, and it cost a certain number of diamonds for a biweekly submission.

In the end, this game will end up like so many browser based games before it, and thats with you no longer playing it after x # of months. The game is exciting when you first start playing, but just loses that excitment over time.