Enter a world of heroes and warlords, a world of endless possibilities! Draco is the newest browser-based strategy game from the block. As with all respected browser games, to play Draco all you need is a web browser; no downloads are necessary. And the game is completely free! Get ready to start your journey to the stars and beyond in an epic quest of galactic conquest.

Developer Evolution Vault, know for its browser-based games Xeno and Asgard Heroes, provided us with the opportunity to test their latest game Draco, before its official release, few days from now. The developer prepared a special registration page here that will give you the following in-game bonuses upon registration:

1. double the number of starting crystals;
2. double the quantity of resources;
3. double the storage capacity;
4. and other surprise bonuses.

Let me tell you about Draco… The story is that the Avatar has awakened and the Prime Evils ascended into space, searching for fresh blood. Highly efficient killers with the sole purpose of consuming all living, “the Avatars are a symbiotic species which assimilated millions of hosts throughout the galaxy, in order to thrive and be able to modify their surroundings.”

This peculiar race uses energy from the sun to power their metabolisms and to fuel the accelerated growth of their larvae. The Avatar also feeds on natives and drinks argon – a green gas in a high-energy state which they need to stay alive. The aliens have some cool structures which, apparently, stayed buried deep underground for centuries, waiting to be triggered. I think the trigger was the evolution of the intelligent life; smart enough to modify its surroundings but foolish enough to alert the dormant predators.

The game play itself is fairly straightforward if you’ve ever played any of the more traditional browser games, such as Travian. During the demo I played against their community manager on a speed server, testing out different strategies for three days. The demo was short – in terms of browser-based games’ timeline – but the action was intense. Regardless, I enjoyed the game play and was lucky to try the Avatar because it really stands out when compared with the other race available in the game, the Asgardians.

The Avatar units also look cool with their sharp weapons and hardened armors, standing ready to defend the Hive with their lives. The Avatars are really fanatic and sadistic in nature and I loved every second of it. After leveling my warriors and obtaining new resources from my first loots to spend on production development, I raised my eyes to the sky.

Because ground combat is not all you get in this game! There are also air units in Draco, well, more like space units, true winged nightmares which drove off attackers from my colony, enough to allow me to send my spies to the enemy’s outpost and link it with my Hellmouth, which is basically a portal through which I send my surface hunters. Yep, fresh meat indeed, the enemy had no chance against my ravenous aliens and has shortly proclaimed me winner.

Of course there are no winners and losers in this game; you can build vaults to protect your resources indefinitely (or until an enemy downgrades it). Regardless, for the sake of this demo, I was declared winner and the enemy gladly resigned, making a point. And the point was that the game is fun to play in your spare time, when you want to forget about work or school for a couple of minutes, when you want to relax for just a second.

Getting back to the game, you should know that evolution is never complete for the Avatar. Bloodthirsty to the extreme, these guys will always seek out new ways to further evolve themselves and become more efficient killers. The game delivered on all counts. It had beautiful graphics, gritty races, unique units, researches, and a great strategic combat system. I walked away impressed with the amount of care and communication coming from the developer, and looking forward to getting my hands on Draco when the server goes public, in the next week or so.

Your life for the Hive? Register now and start with more crystals, more resources and double the storage space.

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