EDIT: Yes, free to play. Not to win. You pay to be better or spend a literal 6-8 months upgrading buildings and spending probably 3-4 times that amount of tume building up a decent army to actually compete with higher level players that probably pour hundreds a month into this game Furthermore, I can provide 100 different instances of air units attacking distant IDLE units instead of the ones right beside them that are attacking them. This game has potential but it lacks tremendously.