About Sundown Fort

Sundown Fort is a small review site for online worlds you settle into rather than beat: farms, railways, frontiers, the occasional war. All of them run in a web page. Three of us write it, from three different time zones, which is why the site is named after the hour when we usually log in.

The name

Every frontier game has a fort you reach at sundown, drop your bags in and decide whether to stay. That is the question we ask of each world: after three weeks, would we still choose to stay the night? The West gave us the image, and it keeps its place on the list partly out of gratitude and mostly because the fort battles are good.

What gets in

• Runs in a normal web browser with nothing to install.
• Free to register and to play properly. A shop is fine; a paywall on the core loop is not.
• No real-money gambling of any kind. We do not cover casino, slot or betting products and never will.
• Live for at least a year with an active English-speaking community.

How we are paid

The "Settle in" buttons are affiliate links. Sign up through one and the publisher may pay us a small commission, which covers hosting. Publishers cannot buy a place, do not see a verdict before publication and have never been offered a higher one for anything. Verdicts are locked before links are added, and a world that falls below 7.0 on re-test is dropped whatever the link earns.

Seasons

Four a year. Worlds carry over while they hold their verdict. We do not keep old seasons online because an out-of-date review is worse than none.