Claim the Range
An open Western frontier stretching toward distant mountains

Western PBBG A persistent shared frontier

Claim the Range: A Persistent Western Strategy Game, Built for the Browser

Claim the Range puts you into a shared frontier that has to be explored rather than handed to you. Build your Fort and Gang, gather Gold and Supplies, trade, scout, form Posses, and fight other players as you learn the Range one trail at a time.

Play directly in your web browser. Installation is optional.

A game that remembers

Old-School Browser Strategy, Rebuilt for Today

Claim the Range takes its cues from the persistent multiplayer browser games of the early 2000s: games where an account mattered over time, the world was shared, communities and rivalries grew, and knowledge accumulated across many returns instead of disappearing at the end of a match.

Claim the Range belongs to the tradition of Persistent Browser Based Games (PBBG): games where your progress and the shared world continue across many play sessions. Return to your Fort, grow your Gang, and build lasting rivalries on desktop or mobile, with optional browser-app installation.

See the Range for yourself

This Is Claim the Range

Claim the Range runs directly in your browser, with the same persistent frontier available on desktop and mobile.

Claim the Range desktop gameplay interface at The Rusted Spur, with navigation, movement controls, resources, and the shared frontier Claim the Range mobile gameplay interface at The Rusted Spur with movement controls and Wagon Train

What you actually do

Make Your Place in the Range

Every useful route, strong Gang and hard-won advantage begins with what you choose to do next.

A player Fort beside a river in the Western frontier
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Build Your Fort and Gang

Establish your place in the world. Gather Gold and Supplies, recruit and strengthen your Gang, protect what belongs to you and prepare to threaten what belongs to somebody else.

A frontier Training Camp used to recruit forces
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Gather, Trade, Scout and Fight

Work useful locations, improve gathering and scouting, recruit forces, trade goods, raid rival Forts and set Guards to defend your own ground.

Players gathering at the Rusted Spur frontier saloon
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Share the Range With Other Players

This is not a private single-player map. Other players build Forts, travel the same world, form Posses, communicate, cooperate, compete, attack and defend.

Knowledge is territory

The Frontier Isn’t Handed to You

Claim the Range does not begin by revealing a complete strategy map covered in icons. You learn the world by moving through it. Valuable ground matters because you discovered it, remembered it, scouted it, or learned about it from somebody else.

Over time, locations become routes. Routes become knowledge. Knowledge becomes an advantage.
Coyote Springs beneath cottonwood trees and desert cliffs
Coyote SpringsUseful ground is worth remembering.
The Twin Sisters rock towers at sunset
The Twin SistersSome places are their own reward.
The Old Spanish Well overlooking desert country
The Old Spanish WellEvery trail adds to what you know.

Read before you ride

Learn the Range Before You Ride

The public Range Manual explains the real rules and systems without giving away the hidden world.

Straight answers

Before You Saddle Up

What kind of game is Claim the Range?

It is a persistent multiplayer Western browser strategy game built around exploration, resource gathering, Forts, Gangs, rivalry and cooperation in one shared world.

Do I need to install it?

No. It runs directly in a supported web browser. An app-style browser installation is optional and still uses the same live game and account.

Is Claim the Range multiplayer?

Yes. Other players travel the same Range, build Forts, join Posses, trade knowledge, communicate, compete, attack and defend.

Is it an old-school browser game?

It is a modern game deliberately built in the tradition of persistent browser strategy games from the early 2000s—not a disposable match and not a remake of another game.

The trail starts here

Think You Can Claim the Range?

Create your account, establish your Fort and start learning the country. The Range will not tell you which direction to take.