Novgov
Coming soon to Google Play

Novgov

Conquer your city, one neighbourhood at a time. A turn-based strategy game played on the real streets and buildings of your city.

▶ Coming soon to Google PlayHow it works
FreeNo adsNo in-app purchasesAndroid
A turn-based battle in the streets of a real city.

The game

The game is currently available in French. More languages will follow.

01

Your real city

Maps come from OpenStreetMap: real streets, squares and buildings. Your soldiers enter buildings and climb onto rooftops to see and shoot further.

02

Turn-based

Place your troops, draw their paths, give your orders, then hit “End turn”: the simulation plays out and you see what happened.

03

Conquest

Your HQ is set up in your own neighbourhood. Take the free neighbourhoods around you: they earn you Action Points, even while you are offline.

04

Player sieges

A neighbour holds an area? Launch a siege: a real turn-based battle between the two of you. The winner takes the area and its loot.

Conquest, step by step

  1. On first launch, your location is read once to place your HQ in your neighbourhood (an area of about 200 m).
  2. Take the free neighbourhoods next to yours: it is free and instant.
  3. Each neighbourhood earns Action Points every 5 minutes, even offline, plus a daily bonus.
  4. Spend your Action Points at the barracks to recruit troops, or to upgrade your neighbourhoods (up to level 3).
  5. Attack a neighbouring area held by another player: they are notified, and the battle starts as soon as you are both online.
  6. Not online at the same time? After 6 hours, the battle is played automatically with your barracks troops.
The conquest map: your areas, free areas and other players' areas.

Your army

Infantry50 AP
Drone200 AP
Cannon vehicle150 AP
Leopard tank300 AP
Mortar400 AP
Barricadesfor defence

Play solo too

Solo mode needs no account and no connection: face the computer on a city built into the game and learn the controls. Online, an ELO ranking rewards the best commanders.

Give orders: enter a building, climb onto the roof…

Your location stays private

Novgov reads your GPS location once, on your phone, to choose your HQ neighbourhood. Only that area of about 200 m is used by the game: your exact coordinates are neither sent nor stored, and you are never tracked afterwards.

Screenshots

The conquest map: your areas, free areas and other players' areas.
The conquest map: your areas, free areas and other players' areas.
A turn-based battle in the streets of a real city.
A turn-based battle in the streets of a real city.
Give orders: enter a building, climb onto the roof…
Give orders: enter a building, climb onto the roof…
Management: sieges, barracks, neighbourhoods and ranking.
Management: sieges, barracks, neighbourhoods and ranking.

The author

Novgov is created by Fathi Said Hassen, based in France. A specialist in geomatics and game theory, he is an expert in geographic information systems (WebGIS, ArcGIS Pro) and in computing: databases, cloud, servers, web and mobile development. He holds the Oracle AI Database@AWS Certified Architect Professional certification and was trained in spatial data science by Esri.

His research, combining agent-based modelling and game theory, was published in the international journal Cities (Elsevier, 2022). Novgov brings both passions together: maps and strategy.

Sites by Fathi Said Hassen

  • iabig.com: free tools to see your website the way AI sees it.
  • risof.com: practical everyday tools, in French (school holidays, public holidays, aid simulators).
  • ziovox.com: a free geolocated mobile game where you clash with ideas.