A world that lives without you Civilizations emerge on their own — villagers found settlements, take up professions (farmer, lumberjack, hunter, warrior, builder), and grow through four race-themed housing tiers from a single hut to a castle or an orc fortress. Kingdoms wage real wars: armies muster, march across the map, and lay siege to enemy towns while you watch from above. Auto-discovered trade routes thread the world together, with merchants ping-ponging goods between distant villages. Religions are founded, vassal bonds and pacts are sworn, and rebellions boil up from the unhappy — no two worlds politick the same way. Dynasties, blood, and succession Inspect any creature to read its name, traits, profession, and full family tree. Kings sire bloodlines; thrones pass down; a botched succession can crack a kingdom open into civil war. Heraldry and kingdom identity give each rising power its own colors and character. Read it all back in a living Chronicle — a world-history log of births, betrayals, battles, and collapses — plus a politics screen and population graphs. Sculpt the stage Raise and lower land, pour water, lava, and ice, and paint biomes — forest, jungle, savanna, desert, swamp, tundra. A live procedural terrain shader paints it all; rivers carve their own paths through hydraulic erosion. Seasons turn, weather rolls in, lightning cracks, and a day/night cycle sweeps across the map. World Eras bias the whole simulation into chapters — an Age of Sun drought, an Age of Tears deluge, a creeping Dark Age — so history itself has moods. Seed the life 30+ creatures: humans, elves, orcs, dwarves, bandits; cows, sheep, deer, horses; wolves and bears; sharks, dolphins, fish, and sea serpents; boar, fox, rabbit, giant spider, troll; and mythics and undead — dragon, kraken, hero, zombie, necromancer. Animals spawn and roam wild on their own; civilization and the undead are yours to place. Play god — wrath and mercy both Rain down catastrophe: bombs, nukes, meteors, the Tsar Bomba, earthquakes, tornadoes, volcanoes, floods, blizzards, black holes, plague, acid rain. Or be merciful: raise mountains, part the sea, summon rain, smite the wicked, bless a bloodline, possess a single creature, polymorph a mob into livestock, clone, teleport, or just gild something with a golden touch. Bake your own rules World Laws let you set what kind of god a world even has — toggle disasters, wildlife, aging, war, rebellions, vegetation, and reproduction on or off before you generate. A peaceful botanical sanctuary, or a deathless gladiatorial pit? Each ruleset is baked into its world, so every save is its own experiment. Pull up a chair There are no goals, no timers, no fail screen. Pick a creature and follow it for an afternoon. Watch a dynasty you've grown fond of get swallowed by the kingdom next door. Light and dark UI, 145 achievements to chase if you want them, mod-friendly, and so light it runs on pure C and SDL2. A digital ant farm with a thousand years of drama inside — you just poke at it. Key Features Genuinely emergent history — villages, kingdoms, wars, trade, and collapse all run themselves; the story is discovered, never scripted. Deep civilization sim — professions, four-tier cities, religions, vassals, pacts, and rebellions. Dynasties & politics — kings, bloodlines, succession crises, civil wars, heraldry, and a living world Chronicle. Per-world World Laws — toggle disasters, aging, war, wildlife, vegetation, and reproduction to bake your own ruleset. A living landscape — procedural terrain shader, self-carving rivers, seasons, weather, day/night, and mood-setting world Eras. 30+ creatures — civilizations, wildlife, sea life, wild beasts, mythics, and the undead. Dozens of god powers — wrath and mercy both, from the Tsar Bomba and black holes to part-the-sea, possession, and blessings. Cozy and light — pixel-art charm, light and dark UI, 145 achievements, mod-friendly, pure C and SDL2.
