Saecula
The map remembers a thousand years.
Saecula is a grand strategy and city-building game that runs from the year 1000 to 2000. Think Victoria meets Anno meets the colonisation half of Europa Universalis, played on a map that physically changes over a thousand years.
Growth, war, famine and plague leave visible marks. A razed city stays a ruin until someone rebuilds it, and war spends a generation that still shows in the population decades later. Goods travel along real roads, rivers and sea lanes, so you can blockade a road or reroute trade to your own city.
The first playable version covers the century from 1000 to 1100: the end of the Viking age, the Norman conquest, Byzantium at its peak, and the First Crusade as its climax. Later versions add a century at a time.
- The world of 1000 AD: relief, seas, rivers and the vegetation of the time
- About 250 realms, vassals and peoples, with borders that follow mountains and narrow seas
- About 680 cities and towns, and the British Isles in full with some 13,000 settlements
- Villages laid out from their population: strip fields, crofts, a church, sometimes a lord’s hall
- Buildings that change with the age: wattle and thatch around 1000, timber framing and tile by 1250
- A chronicle that writes the annals of your realm year by year
- Scripted history by default, with an alternate-history option
Screenshots
Siena in the year 1000: a walled town of about 6,000 people, laid out from its population.
The political map of Europe in 1000.
England around 1000: towns, roads and the woods between them.
Closer in: walled London, its villages and open fields along the Thames.
The patchwork of fields round London’s villages.
The Alps, from Burgundy to the Kingdom of Italy.
Dijon in its forest clearing.
Roads through the Tuscan woods to Siena.Roadmap
- M0
Foundations In progress
The world of 1000 on screen, a running clock and the chronicle
- M1
Settlements In progress
Hamlets, villages and towns generated from rules, in two ages
- 0.1
1000–1100 Planned
The first playable demo: the Viking age, the Normans and the First Crusade
- 0.2
1100–1200 Planned
The Crusades, crusader states, the rise of towns and guilds
- 0.3
1200–1300 Planned
Magna Carta, the Mongol invasions, Hanseatic trade
- 0.4
1300–1400 Planned
The Great Famine, the Black Death, the Hundred Years’ War
- 0.5
1400–1500 Planned
Printing, the fall of Constantinople, the Americas revealed
- Later
1500–2000 Planned
Colonisation, the Reformation, industry, the world wars and the modern age
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