The land
Wildlife and hunting
Deer, boar, wolves and bears, each species with its own woods and hours. Game flees from where it's hunted.
The world
The peninsula, measured
The terrain comes from the elevation models of Spain's National Geographic Institute and Copernicus: every range, valley and coastline sits where it really is. Rivers aren't drawn; they run down that terrain, and their basins match the real ones.
The climate is worked out from altitude and the Atlantic wind, and it matches the rainfall of thirty weather stations with a median error of 12%. On top come the biomes, the soils, the ore veins and the pre-Roman peoples, each on their own land: Vettones, Turdetani, Ilergetes, Gallaeci, Carpetani…
You pick a site on the map of the peninsula and go down to it. What the map promised (the soil, the woods, the water) is what you find when you get there.
- 5.8 million
- tiles of 445 m on the map of the peninsula
- 111 km
- across every site you can settle, in tiles of 111 m
- −0.8%
- is how far the Ebro basin is from the real one; the Douro, −0.7%
- About 420
- AI settlements across the peninsula
- 10 languages
- English, Spanish and eight more
Time
A full year in every place
At normal speed a day lasts 36 minutes and a night 6; a year, sixteen days. The seasons change the leaves, the flowers and the grass. Snow falls where it's cold, dry riverbeds flood in a storm, and the tide comes and goes in the bays.
How it plays
From a clearing in the woods
to head of a lineage
City-building and management, in real time with pause. No rush: the village grows at the pace of its people, and every decision shows years later.
And the rest of the world
The land
Rivers and weather
Dry riverbeds flood, the tide leaves the mudflats bare in the bays, and snow settles on the heights.
The land
Quarries and mines
Open-cast or underground, on the veins that crop out: iron, copper, tin, silver and river gold.
The village
Knowledge
Each culture learns its own way: the potter's wheel, writing, the shafts and galleries of the mines.
The village
The chieftain's dilemmas
Boundary disputes, grain thieves, guests at the gate and marriages between peoples. You decide, and it's remembered.
The village
The chronicle
A mode where the game saves itself and there's no going back: what's done is done.
War
The warband
A training ground where the young men drill, and a named warband that sets out on expeditions, and comes back, or doesn't.
War
Rome or Carthage
Levies, requisitions and armies marching through your land. Whose side you take, and when, is up to you.
Gallery
Scenes from the peninsula
Roadmap
The road to release
Eight stages done and one in progress. No dates yet; they'll be posted here when there are.
- 01 · Done
The real world
Measured terrain, climate, rivers and basins, biomes, soils, minerals and peoples.
- 02 · Done
Flora and fauna
Period species in their niche, and animals with their habits, their tracks and their hunting.
- 03 · Done
Settling and building
Buildings for each culture, roads and fords, construction in stages and woodland to clear.
- 04 · Done
People and trades
People with names, families and trades; production, storage and hauling.
- 05 · Done
The neighbours
About 420 AI settlements with their own layout, trade, dealings and leagues.
- 06 · Done
War
Training ground, warband, combat, raids, and Rome and Carthage marching across the peninsula.
- 07 · Done
Saves and chronicle
Saving and loading, and chronicle mode, which saves by itself and allows no undo.
- 08 · Done
Ten languages
English, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, French, Polish and Korean.
- 09 · In progress
Balance
Making the first years as hard as they should be: game that runs out, flocks and fields.
- 10 · Planned
Steam page
To wishlist it and follow it from there.
- 11 · Planned
Kickstarter
A campaign to finish it with the people who want to play it.
Devlog
Latest from the workshop
13 November 2026
Ten languages, and clearing by hand
The game can now be played in English, Chinese, Russian, Portuguese, German, Japanese, French, Polish and Korean, as well as Spanish. And founding no longer clears everything at once: people clear the land bit by bit (first the trees, then the scrub and the rocks, and the stumps last), and every house can be seen going up piece by piece.
11 November 2026
AI settlements, with a real layout
Each neighbouring settlement is laid out by its site and its culture: the core following the terrain, streets, houses facing the street, walls with gates and fields split into plots.
11 November 2026
Leagues, subject settlements and debts
Neighbours ally with and subdue each other. And a game can be played peaceful, with the war further away, or free, with no ending.
10 November 2026
A game that lasts
Fourteen improvements so a game holds up for years: the chronicle, a named warband, reworked combat, the marches after Ilipa and neighbouring lords.
FAQ
Frequently asked
What kind of game is it?
City-building and management, in real time with pause, in the Iberian Peninsula of 218 BC. You found a settlement, grow it, trade and make pacts with your neighbours and, when war comes, choose a side.
When can I play it?
There's no date yet. When there is, it'll be here and on the Steam page.
Which platforms?
PC. Other platforms may come later.
Which languages?
English, Spanish, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, German, Japanese, French, Polish and Korean.
Is it historically accurate?
Places, rivers, plants, animals and people carry period or attested names; the peoples are where they were, and each culture builds and works its own way. What isn't written is your settlement.
Single-player or multiplayer?
It's a single-player game.
Does it need an internet connection?
No.
Community
Follow it closely
The Steam page and the campaign are on their way. In the meantime, the devlog on this page keeps track of what's being made.