Game review of Travian:

This is the game description by Travian itself:

Travian is a browser game featuring a world with thousands of other real players.

One begins the game acting as a chief of a tiny village

About the game:

• No downloads necessary, the game is directly playable.
• You play with thousands of real players in a persistent ancient world.
• Build up villages, wage wars or trade with your neighbors.

I feel that the game, although it is better than other games out there which have lousy graphics and lousy user interface, needs a very long time to play. Travian has been around for quite a long time and it has 295 different server altogether.

I played this game since I was in Primary 6 and have been quitting and rejoining Travian servers until around June 2009. The good points about Travian is that it has a tutorial for those who want to join but want to have some knowledge before playing.

After a person joins a game, there is a in-game tutorial where the "advisor" gives the user tasks to complete. However, he/she can choose to skip the tutorial.

Some good points about Travian:

1.  Browser game - No download necessary
2. Good graphics
3. Good user interface - User friendly
4. Have guides about building, troops etc

The one and only bad point about Travian (to me):

1. Takes a long time to play - eg. Level 1 Cropland takes 2min 30sec to build. However, in some other similiar game like Evony, the equilvalent of cropland takes less than 40sec.

Some pictures of Travian (Some are in the German interface):