About Homestead Heroes

Homestead Heroes is a free, browser-based multiplayer strategy game inspired by the classic board game Catan. No download or account required — create a game, share the five-letter code with friends, and play from anywhere.

How to play

Players take turns collecting resources — brick, wood, ore, wheat, and sheep — from a procedurally arranged hexagonal board. Spend those resources to build roads, settlements, and cities; buy development cards; or trade with the bank or other players. The first player to reach the victory point target wins.

Roll the dice each turn to determine which hexes produce resources. Roll a 7 and you move the robber, blocking a tile and stealing from an opponent. Development cards add further options: deploy a Knight to move the robber, play Monopoly to claim all of one resource from every player, or use Year of Plenty to grab any two resources from the bank.

Features

• 2–6 players — standard mode supports 2–4; an expanded board fits 5–6
• Public lobby — browse open games and join without needing a code
• Event Deck — optional deck of event cards that shake up each session
• Configurable victory points — choose how long the game lasts
• Live synchronization — every move updates in real time across all players
• Works on mobile — playable on phones and tablets without any app install

Built as a side project

Homestead Heroes is a personal project built to explore what a fast, lightweight multiplayer board game could look like on the modern web. The backend is Python (FastAPI) and the frontend is TypeScript, with Firebase Realtime Database keeping all players in sync without WebSockets.