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title: "Ancient Beast"
subtitle: "A turn based strategy game, featuring a wide variety of units to acquire and put into battle."
date: 2017-04-19T00:00:00.000Z
category: game
url: https://phaser.io/news/2017/04/ancient-beast
site: Phaser - https://phaser.io
copyright: © 2026 Phaser Studio Inc. All rights reserved.
---

# Ancient Beast

*A turn based strategy game, featuring a wide variety of units to acquire and put into battle.*

![image](ancient-beast.jpg)

Ancient Beast has been in development for as long as Phaser has, if not before! This is the version 0.3 release which is the first major update in 3 years. The previous version used Phaser 1.1.3! Hopefully this version will stay online a lot longer than the previous, because it's really interesting to play.

Ancient Beast is a turn based strategy indie game project, played against other people (or bots) in hotseat or online modes, featuring a wide variety of units to acquire and put to good use in order to defeat all your opponents in battle. This version introduces 5 new beasts and working prototype units. I got sucked into materializing units, planning their approach, and attacking the enemies.

[Play Game](https://play.ancientbeast.com/)

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