Multi-player games are played in the browser edition, at https://kalretro.au/riveroath/play/. Choose Multi-Player game on the title screen.

• Make a player: a name, a password and (if you want the emails) an email address. River Oath has its own players, separate from Sengoku and The Broken Seal.
• New game: choose the beginning, the level and the time limit for each month (12, 24, 48 or 72 hours). The game gets an invite code: send it to your friends.
• Join with a code: type the code you were sent.
• In the game's lobby every player chooses a band (2 to 6 players). The one who made the game starts it when everyone has chosen. The computer leads the bands nobody chose.

• Everyone plays the same month at the same time. Give your month's tasks whenever you like, in any order: each task happens at once on the server's world, so you see what the others have already done.
• Press E when you have finished: that ends your turn (press E again to take it back while the month is still open).
• The month ends when every player has ended their turn, or when the time limit runs out. Then the computer gives the tasks of anyone who had not finished (“The computer gave your tasks this month”), the computer bands and the Intendancy act, and the month's end comes. The game shows the month's news when you next look.
• The screen asks the server for news every half minute.

• Your raids are fought by you on the battle field, against the computer leading the defenders (even when they belong to another player). The server checks the battle by playing your moves again.
• One battle at a time: if another player acts while your battle is unfinished, or an hour passes, or the month ends, the computer finishes it for you.
• Attacks on your band at the month's end (computer bands, Luo Tie) are fought by the computer.
• Prisoners you take wait for your decision. Pacts and requests to join wait for the player they were sent to.

• Each player sees their own news: their own results, raids on their band, and the month's ledger. The map and the places are public, as in the single-player game.
• Emails (if you gave an address and left them on): when the game starts, when each month begins (with your news and the next deadline), two hours before the deadline if you have not ended your turn, and when the game is over.

Leave this game hands your band to the computer for good. A band whose leader is taken or killed is out; its player can still watch.