Vedelem: The Golden Horde

Vedelem: The Golden Horde

Castle Roaches · June 22, 2021 · Strategy, Base Building, Action, RTS, Management

Vedelem: The Golden Horde is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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About Vedelem: The Golden Horde

✦ AI summary

Defend your 13th-century Eastern European kingdom from the massive Mongolian invasion by managing your economy, building structures, and commanding thousands of troops in large-scale real-time battles. Survive escalating waves of Mongol forces across Skirmish and Endless modes while expanding your territory and upgrading your Keep into an unconquerable fortress.

Védelem: The Golden Horde is a Real Time Strategy game set in 13th century eastern Europe. The Golden Horde is the biggest and deadliest Mongolian invasion that the world has ever seen. As the last line of defense, you are called to save your lands against the Mongol empire. They will ruthlessly attempt to pillage your economy and bring your Keep to ruin.
Manage the economy of your Castle, build new structures, find and exploit resources and expand your borders while mustering an army capable of repelling the Mongolian Invasion.

Thousands of Units on Screen


In this age of fire and steel, Mongol forces are counted in the tens of thousands. Train your army to match their numbers. Upgrade your units to match their strength. Lead your troops in large scale engagements and intense combat against the invaders.

Build & Expand


Find your own progression path as you expand your territory, find and collect new resources and build economic and defensive structures to re-establish your presence in these forsaken lands.
Will you be able to upgrade your Keep into an unconquerable Castle before it's too late?

Two Game Modes


In Skirmish Mode you will have to survive for a specific amount of time against hordes of Mongols. Resource locations and composition will change every single game. Scouting, adapting and planning are key to your survival.
Endless Mode will provide you with a more hardcore experience. With no time limits, a never-ending stream of enemies will put your defenses, economy and ability on the battlefield to a test.
In these ages of despair, how long will you be able to survive against the Mongol Empire?

Védelem: The Golden Horde is a student project created by Castle Roaches which is part of Breda University of Applied Sciences

Vedelem: The Golden Horde — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Apr 18, 2026
A really boring one that the battle pace are too long and boring, that all you gonna facing are endless timer upon timer, you need to build building then watching the must be the most boring process to wait the gather part of the resource, it's like developer really hate player to enjoy the battle excited so put a timer then forcing the player to wait till spawn some horde into player eyes, this game not even close beta finish and far away and need many improvement.
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Recommended Apr 12, 2026
I've always heard and known the Mongolian invasions were devastating, but I think this game gives me a better grasp on exactly how difficult it was (just at the end of the NORMAL difficulty in the skirmish mode; I thought I was pretty set and then they came in like a TSUNAMI, and it was too late to muster up any EFFECTIVE extra resistance). I recommend this both for the experience and because it's free- the only price is that you possibly might sink a LOT of hours into this.
2 found this helpful
Not recommended May 29, 2026
Wtf is this game even about and wow not a single update in over 59 months great job piece of ♥♥♥♥ dev
1 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 20, 2025
Fun little freeware game about building up a small slavic village and defending it against the mongol invasion. Very simplistic but still fun, it just lacks a little spice as you usualy just expand your economy while holding off mongol raiders that throw themselves against your walls until you got a gigantic army to survive the endgame where you suddenly get assualted by tens of thousands of horsemen. Things like mongol sige artilery that bomb your walls and forces you to sally out would have given the midgame a bit more depth because once you have walled yourself in there is very little to do exept spaming houses and building more troops. appart from that and that units would often clip through walls, this game is fun, perfect for people that like a simple RTS game that you can play on and off for half an hour.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Aug 22, 2026
No balance, no options, has potential but no dev activity
Not recommended Aug 15, 2026
Very loosy controls. Zero gameplay settings options. There are much better free RTS games.

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