Release date: 18/07/2024Rise to Power in a Broken Empire, Where Betrayal and Ambition Rule
The once-mighty Empire has crumbled, leaving fractured kingdoms vying for dominance in a world where ambition and treachery reign. As the head of a noble family in the shattered land of Norland, your path to power is fraught with peril. Lead your small kingdom to greatness in a medieval colony simulation where every decision you make can ignite a chain of dramatic consequences. Will you restore your family’s honor, or will you become a tyrant, feared and revered across the land?
Norland challenges you to build, conquer, and survive in a world where power is fragile and every decision could be your last. Will you unite the fractured kingdoms, or will you let ambition and betrayal tear them apart? Your kingdom's future is in your hands.
Forge your path to power in Norland today!
Features of Norland
The Noble’s Privilege
- Family Drama and Intrigue: Your noble family’s internal dynamics are as complex as the external threats. Manage their ambitions, relationships, and skills while navigating betrayal, ambition, and murder. Will you use alliances, gifts, or steel to manipulate your way to the top?
- Skills & Ambitions: Each family member has unique strengths, weaknesses, and aspirations. Some are skilled warriors, others are brilliant scholars or cunning negotiators. Train them, unlock new talents, and make choices that will shape the future of your dynasty.
- Generational Legacy: Protect the future of your bloodline by educating children and passing down knowledge. But beware—if a family member perishes without passing on their knowledge, that wisdom will be lost forever.
Powered By Peasants
- Control Your Kingdom’s Workforce: The common folk are the backbone of your realm, working the fields, constructing buildings, and maintaining your city’s production chains. Keep them happy with fair wages, food, and beer, or risk rebellion and discontent.
- Managing Discontent: Peasants come from various cultural backgrounds, each with their own needs and grievances. Handle them with care, or risk unrest that could endanger your reign. Use manipulation, military force, or diplomacy to maintain order.
- Factions and Loyalty: The peasants’ loyalty is fragile. Different groups follow different causes, from religious zealots to loyalists to rebels. Watch out for power struggles, and remember that a single wrong move could cost you your crown.
A Living, Dynamic World
- Vibrant World-Building: Norland’s world is rich in culture and history, with kingdoms fighting for control, mysterious invaders on the horizon, and factions in constant flux. From the Church of Saint Sophia to the Unholy Horde, the world reacts to your every decision.
- Strategic Diplomacy & War: Form alliances, engage in trade, or incite war. Your family will have to navigate the complex world of diplomacy, assassination, and intrigue, while managing a fragile peace within your own kingdom.
- Historical Events & Calamities: Watch history unfold as disasters, plagues, kidnappings, and power struggles complicate your life. Your decisions will impact not only your family but the entire land of Norland.
A Time For War
- Raise Armies & Command Battles: When diplomacy fails, take to the battlefield with your peasant militia or hired mercenaries. Equip your soldiers with locally sourced or imported weapons and lead them to battle against foreign invaders, rival factions, or rebellious peasants.
- Morale & Combat Tactics: Success in battle depends on more than just brute force. Your warriors' morale, the quality of their equipment, and your tactical prowess will determine victory or defeat.
- Sacrifices of War: War is costly—not only in resources but in the lives of your people. Will you sacrifice the lives of your peasants to expand your kingdom’s borders, or will you seek peace and avoid bloodshed?
Build Your Legacy
- Kingdom Management: Expand your city, construct new buildings, and unlock new technologies by studying ancient tomes and texts. But beware—knowledge is a double-edged sword. Will you hoard it for yourself or trade it for wealth and power?
- Dynamic Storytelling: Every playthrough in Norland is unique. Your choices shape the narrative, from political alliances to internal struggles, and will determine the rise or fall of your family.
