Game of Thrones: Dragonfire Is a New Free-to-Play Mobile Strategy Game Set in the House of the Dragon Era

Dragons, civil war, and tile-based base building. That's the pitch, apparently.

Warner Bros. Games and HBO officially announced Game of Thrones: Dragonfire on April 7, a free-to-play mobile strategy game for iOS and Android. It's set during the Targaryen civil war era made famous by House of the Dragon, roughly 200 years before Season 1 of Game of Thrones, and you're playing as a Valyrian descendant who hatches and raises their own pack of dragons.

Which, admittedly, sounds pretty appealing on paper.

The studio behind it is Warner Bros. Games Boston, formerly known as Turbine Inc. They've been down this road before with Game of Thrones: Conquest, so the franchise is familiar territory for them. Gameplay centres on a tile-based stronghold system where you place tiles, harvest resources, upgrade your forces, and expand across the Seven Kingdoms through tactical combat. There are alliance systems as well, letting you team up with real-world players to combine armies and take on enemies together.

You'll encounter familiar faces from House of the Dragon, including Rhaenyra Targaryen, alongside original characters created for the game.

Pre-registration is open now on the App Store, Google Play, and the official site. Sign up and you'll get 100 Gold at launch. Hit certain player milestones and the rewards scale up:

• 1 million pre-registrations: six Banner Maker Sigils
• 2 million: 1,000 Runic Fragments
• 5 million: two avatars
• 10 million: a Dawnseeker dragon

No release date has been confirmed yet, though the game is being promoted alongside House of the Dragon Season 3, which debuts on HBO in June 2026. Summer 2026 seems the most likely window based on current reporting.

Whether this turns into another solid mobile title or gets buried under free-to-play monetisation is the real question. The Game of Thrones IP has enough pull to draw people in. Whether it keeps them there depends entirely on the balance. We'll see.