New on Sociale: Sociale Conquista, a quiz and strategy game for 2 to 4 players. Choose a capital, grow your kingdom by answering questions, attack your rivals in duels and take their castles. Whoever conquers the whole map wins.
It is free, it works in the browser and on your phone, and you can play with friends, with people from the community in any language, or against the bot. In this guide we explain everything: how to start, the maps, the rules of the war, the sieges, the ranking and how to win.
How to start a game
Open the game page: Sociale Conquest (also in Español and Italiano). You only need a free Sociale account. You have two ways to play:
- Play now: you join the room where other people are already waiting, from any language. Everyone sees the questions in their own language. After 30 seconds, the empty seats are taken by a bot (always shown as a bot). The map is chosen at random.
- Room with friends: you create a private room and choose the rules. Send the link (or the 5-letter code) to your friends, or invite them directly from the room: they get a notification "challenges you to Sociale Conquista".
In a private room the host chooses:
- The map (6 maps, see below).
- The mode: everyone for themselves, or 2 vs 2 in teams.
- Players: 2, 3 or 4. Empty seats get a bot.
- The language of the questions: Español, Italiano or English.
- The bots: easy, normal or hard.
- Spectators: other people can watch the game live, or only the players.
- The topics: all of them, or only the ones you like (sport, cinema, music, geography, history, science…).
Everyone chooses their colour: it is the colour of your kingdom on the map.
The maps
There are six maps, each with its own territories and borders:
- Sociale kingdom (top left): our invented world, 24 territories.
- xat Island (top centre): the special map made for the xat community.
- Italy (top right): the 20 regions.
- Spain (bottom left): the 17 autonomous communities, with the Balearic and Canary Islands.
- Europe (bottom centre): 26 countries and areas of Europe.
- Latin America (bottom right): from Mexico to Patagonia, 22 territories.
Islands are connected by sea: the dotted lines show which territories touch each other across the water.
xat Island, the map of the chat
We made a special map for the community: an island in the shape of a chat bubble, with a purple sea and three small islets. The territories have names from the xat world: Main Owner Keep, Moderator March, Xats Mine, Days Delta, Pawn Plains, Kick Cliffs, Ban Bay, Chat Box Valley, Hug Harbour and many more.
Phase 1: the capitals
In a random order, every player chooses a capital on the map, not too close to the others. Click a highlighted territory: an X marks your choice and a small window asks you to confirm.
Every capital is a castle with 3 towers: the three gold dots above the castle.
Phase 2: the expansion
Now the free territories are shared out. Every round has two steps:
- Everyone chooses at the same time a free territory next to their kingdom.
- Then comes the same question for everyone. Who answers right takes the territory they chose. If two players chose the same one, the fastest wins it.
Some questions ask for a number (a year, a height, a quantity). Here you write the number: the closest answers take their territory, and with the same distance the fastest wins.
The expansion goes on until every territory has an owner.
Phase 3: the war
Now it is your turn to attack. You can attack only a rival territory that touches your kingdom: the playable territories glow on the map and are listed on the right. Choose one and press Attack.
The duel
The attacker and the defender answer the same question:
- If only the attacker answers right, they take the territory.
- If only the defender answers right, they keep it and get defence points.
- If both are right or both are wrong, it is 50 / 50: a numeric question decides, and the closest answer wins.
The siege of a capital
To attack a capital you must first get close to it: conquer the territories in front of the castle until your kingdom touches it.
Attacking a castle is a siege:
- Every duel you win destroys a tower, and a new duel starts at once for the next tower, in the same turn.
- The siege stops as soon as the defender wins a duel. The towers already destroyed stay destroyed.
- When the third tower falls, the capital falls: the whole kingdom of that player becomes yours.
With a hit on a castle the map shakes, and projectiles and sparks fly on the castle. When a capital falls, the effect is even bigger.
Rebuild a tower
Has your capital lost some towers? On your turn, instead of attacking, you can press Rebuild a tower. You get a question only for you: if your answer is right, a tower comes back. Attack or defend: it is your choice.
Who wins
The winner is who conquers the whole map. The game goes on until only one kingdom is left. If your capital falls, you lose your kingdom but you stay in the room and can watch the game until the end.
In 2 vs 2, teammates share their territories, cannot attack each other, and the team that conquers the whole map wins together.
At the end you see the final ranking: first the winner, then the players in the order their kingdoms fell. With Share on the feed you can post the final map and the ranking on your Sociale feed.
Points
During the game every kingdom has points. They decide the order of the players and, only if a very long game reaches 20 rounds without a winner, who wins.
| What | Points |
|---|---|
| Every territory | 200 |
| Your capital still standing | 400, plus 200 for every tower left |
| Every defence won | +100 |
Play together
- Quick reactions: during the game you can send ready-made messages to the others: GG, Nice one!, Wow!, Ouch!, Revenge!, Hello!, Thanks!, Oops!. There is no free chat in the game.
- Watch the games: on the game page, under Games being played now, press Watch to follow a game live, also without an account.
- Sounds and music: the two buttons at the top turn the sound effects and the background music on or off.
On your phone
The game works the same on your phone and in the Sociale app: the map, the questions and the duels adapt to the small screen.
Ranking, leagues and weekly tournament
The games between at least 2 members count for the ranking (games against bots only do not). Every month a new season starts and everyone begins with 1000 points: you go up when you beat other players and down when you lose.
| League | Points | At the end of the season |
|---|---|---|
| Bronze | up to 1099 | Bronze badge |
| Silver | from 1100 | Silver badge and 3 XP |
| Gold | from 1250 | Gold badge and 5 XP |
| Platinum | from 1400 | Platinum badge and 8 XP |
| Diamond | from 1550 | Diamond badge and 12 XP |
To get the badge you need at least 3 games in the season.
Every week there is also a tournament, from Monday to Sunday: in every game between members the 1st place gets 10 points, the 2nd 6, the 3rd 3. The top 3 of the week (with at least 3 games) win 10, 6 and 3 XP, and the first also gets the champion of the week badge.
Achievements
On your profile you also find the achievements of Sociale Conquista, with a progress bar:
- First kingdom: win a game.
- Siege master: take a rival capital.
- Perfect defence: win 3 defences in a row in one game.
- Conqueror: take 10 rival capitals.
- Builder: rebuild 5 towers.
- Team spirit: win a 2 vs 2 game with another member.
- Explorer: win on 4 different maps.
- Emperor: win 25 games.
What you can win
The winner of a game gets site coins and XP for the xat chat: 10 XP when you beat other members, 3 XP when the others were bots, up to 3 wins a day. XP and coins have no money value.
Propose your questions
Do you know a good question? At the bottom of the game page, in Propose a question, you can write one: with four answers, or with a number. The staff checks it and adds the other languages. If it is approved and comes up in a game between members, you get XP (up to 5 times a day).
Tips to win
- Choose a capital with space around it: in the expansion you can only grow next to your kingdom.
- In the numeric questions, a good estimate is better than no answer: the closest wins.
- Do not attack a castle too early: a siege that stops gives the defender points. Wait until you can win several duels in a row.
- If your capital has lost towers, rebuilding can save your kingdom.
- Choose the topics you know best when you play with friends.
Ready? Open Sociale Conquista, choose your map and challenge your friends. See you on the battlefield!
