• Moving : WASD
  
• Aiming: move the cursor
  
• Firing: left click
  
• Use powerup: right click

• Tutorial
  
• Treasure : collect as much gold as possible
  
• Princess Rush : collect as many princesses as possible
  
• Hoard : survival
  
• Co-Op

Upgrades

• Speed
  
• Fire Breath
  
• Carrying
  
• Armor

Your home is the mountain location with your colored flag. Your nest is the pile of gold. To cash in your loot, hover above the nest. A greater carrying skill means that your loot is emptied faster. While you are on your nest, you will heal, become invulnerable to attacks, and your princess cannot be stolen. You can still be robbed by a thief while you are on your nest. Careful note that being near your nest doesn't confer these bonuses, you must be precisely on it.

Health
When you lose all your health, you drop everything you carry and are sent back to your nest until you are completely healed.

Multipliers
When you live for a certain amount of time without dying, your multipliers will increase from x2 to x3. This is not dependent on how much gold you cash. In Princess Rush, a multiplier does not change your quantity of princesses, but does apply to the value (used for upgrades).

Carry
You can carry a princess and gold. But when carrying a wizard tower gem, you cannot carry gold.

The general guiding principle of Hoard isn't to destroy everything in sight.

Mills and crops spawn carts that travel the roads to towns. Instead of torching crops and mills, leave them alone so that they supply the towns with gold, so that the towns get richer, and so that the carts carry more gold along the roads.

Crops are normally dirt-colored, but a green crop tile is a bumper crop, and yields 400 gold instead of 100. They disappear over time, suggesting it's worthwhile to torch the tile for gold.

Don't burn more than you can carry. Leaving heaps of gold around is only bolstering your enemy's points.

Carts travel the roads and pick up anything on the road left with them. If you have too much to carry, leave your gold in the path of a tribute cart - the tribute cart will pick it all up and deliver it to your nest for you.

Firework carts are ticking bombs. You can light them on fire, and they will speed up and then explode when the fuse ends. If you aren't careful and breathe too much fire on them, they explode in your face.

If you destroy an extra princess carriage as you steal your princess, it acts as a decoy to the knights. You can also steal a princess when its owner dragon isn't sitting on the nest. Stealing from other dragons is especially helpful in Princess Rush mode.

After a certain amount of damage done to the town, they will offer tribute status to you by displaying your flag. Their archers will no longer fire on you. Whenever the town's core (the central building) is destroyed, the town's memory will be reset.

Tribute is only available in modes with more than one dragon, and provides an interesting mechanic in Princess Rush. In Treasure modes, tribute is the source of massive, passive wealth, especially with your multipliers.

For starting towns, tribute isn't helpful as another dragon will come along and destroy the entire town for its gold. Only towns with one or two archers are really worth the trouble of provoking the town to tribute, and only if you don't destroy the archers in the process.

A tavern is a special purple building in town. They spawn a high number of thieves, so it is better to destroy them rather than let them sit.

Because giants carry so much gold, destroying them far from your nest means many back-and-forth trips to pocket all the gold to your nest. Instead, consider provoking the giants enough to follow you to your nest, and slay them nearby. Giants can also easily destroy wizard towers, leaving free wizard gems for you.

Wizard towers upgrade over time, improving their health, frequency of their shot, and damage their shot does. The bigger the tower, the better the gem. The Ice upgrade is particularly effective as you can freeze many towers at once, preventing them from shooting, while doing damage.

Because your multiplier resets when you die, it isn't worth it to do so. Especially since once you die, you have to wait until you are at full health. It's better to run rather than spoil the multiplier.

Sometimes a dragon will do nothing, especially in early 2p Treasure maps. Leave them alone for some easy points. Killing them will snap them out of it.

While it's not impossible to win a level with a poor start, getting the best start possible makes the round much easier. Beat the other dragons to the first upgrades. Personally, I like to wait for another dragon to destroy the first town, but fire on the dragon as he does so, so that he dies (multiplier reset), and I get the gold.

Because the multiplier is so precious in a game, it's generally a good idea not to fight the other dragons. But if you do fight, only fight where you are sure you can win. If a dragon low on health crosses your path, finishing him off resets his multiplier and isn't any trouble on you.

In Princess Rush, gold will still upgrade your dragon, so it is a good idea to burn down as many things as possible before the first princesses appear. Ultimately, you win the game by princesses, not gold, so focus on princesses.

When the enemy dragon drops off a princess, he will leave her there if you aren't near your nest. Otherwise, he will stay on the nest until the princesses' timer expires. If there are knights nearby, he will leave the nest to torch them - sometimes, even if it is you with a princess and he has none. Steal the enemy's princess wherever possible for quick and easy points. The enemy dragon won't hesitate to steal your princess either, but only if it is convenient. Steal, steal, steal.

If you can cause the towns to tribute you, it means that the other dragons get fired on the same amount while you don't get fired on at all. This can be worth it if you do it quickly without missing too many princesses. Personally, I'm not sure if it helps.

Generally, upgrading speed is the most important in Princess Rush.

Your goal is to amass as much gold as possible, which means finding the highest gold/minute combination possible. It is very possible to spend so much time flying that you aren't making as much as a dragon that sticks close to the nest.

Personally, I feel that the best way to go is to cause tribute with all the towns, and then circle around burning high-profit carts, stealing princesses, and re-doing any tributes that may have switched.