How Flag Wars works
1. Pick a name, a flag and a critter
No account. Type any nickname, choose the country you fight for and one of 8 characters — it always wears your country's colour.
2. Steer
You always move — you only steer. Phone: swipe, or switch on the joystick (🕹 on the left). Computer: arrow keys / WASD, or hold the mouse button and point.
3. Loop back home
Leaving your country's land draws a trail. Come back home and everything inside the loop becomes your country's.
4. Mind your breath
A new life starts with 32 steps of breath outside your land. Every loop you close adds 3 (up to +18) — stay alive and your loops can grow.
What do 🔥 and 🎯 do?
Blaze (Space, double-tap on phones) sets you on fire for 2.5 s: you move faster and every enemy trail you cross is cut — every 10 seconds. Without blazing, crossing a trail does nothing. The flag-bomb (E, two-finger tap) lands 6 tiles ahead and cuts every enemy trail in a 3×3 area — every 12 seconds.
What do I get for cutting someone?
+20 points, +10 breath for the trip you are on, a short rush of speed and a line in everyone's feed. 3, 5 and 10 cuts in one life are announced to the whole map.
What is the underdog boost?
Small countries get a hand: while yours holds less than 2 % of the map and has fewer than 3 players on it, you get +10 breath and faster moves. It ends by itself once your country grows.
What does the hook do?
Q or 🪝 throws a hook 9 tiles straight ahead. The first enemy it reaches is pulled in front of you — out in the open, dragging a trail — and a crate it reaches is yours. Every 9 seconds.
What are the crates?
Every minute or so a crate parachutes down next to one of the sponsors on the map. Walk over it or hook it for a power: 🎨 Paint bomb (the 7×7 around you is yours), ⚡ Turbo (double speed), 🛡 Shield (nobody can cut you), 👻 Ghost (your own trail is safe, endless breath), 🔋 Recharge (blaze, bomb and hook ready, half cooldowns).
What are the bonus zones?
Three squares on the map, new places every full hour. The country holding most of a zone gets its power: 🪙 Gold mine — every tile counts double; 🏰 Fortress — your land stops fading; 🌴 Oasis — +12 steps of breath.
How do I die?
Only on purpose: a blazing enemy who runs over your trail cuts you, and so does a flag-bomb landing on it. Hitting your own trail or running out of breath also drops you, and so does being enclosed by an enemy loop. You are back after a 3-second time-out, deep inside your country's land. Trails of your own countrymen are always safe.
What do the darker colours mean?
Land has 3 strength levels. Walking your own land makes it stronger (darker). An enemy loop only wears strong land down one level at a time — light land changes hands fast. Land nobody of its country comes near loses a level every 60 minutes, and the lightest level fades back to free land — so abandoned land opens up for others.
Is there protection when I start?
Yes — for a few seconds after spawning you're untouchable (the glowing aura).
What if my country has no land?
You start with a small base on the biggest free patch of the map, away from enemies — never inside another country. If the map is full, your country arrives by boat at one of the harbours (⚓): the dock is your home until you loop out your first land.
When does the map reset?
Every Monday at 00:00 (Türkiye time) a new season starts. When a country loses its last land, everyone sees it fall.
Who wins?
Live: the share of the map each country holds. Daily: the country of the day (tiles taken by real players) is posted on our Instagram and TikTok.
Are there ads?
The map has sponsor places. Want yours? Write to [email protected].