Chronicles: Medieval pillars

Four pillars

Co-op for Early Access is the single-player campaign plus custom battles for up to four friends; the co-op campaign itself is the later ambition, and the host leads. Five design principles sit under those pillars. Wheel of Time says life and death are cyclical, resources are finite, and characters age and die from beggars to kings. Information is Power says you do not start with a fully explored map and have to go get the news yourself. Sidetracking Through Opportunities says the sandbox does not funnel you along a critical path, with more of that planned after Early Access.

Historical Believability says this is not a textbook and not a simulation, grounded in how the medieval world worked, with a historian and in-house HEMA work. Dynamic Environment says the world runs whether you watch it or not. The Hundred Years War broke out in 1337, the game begins earlier, and that war may start sooner, later, or not at all. Taken together, the pillars are a promise about play, not a feature checklist with counts attached to every system.

Each pillar below is a studio sentence, kept short enough to compare.

Command slots start small and unlock up to ten, and on the pillars that shows up beside fish prices and loyalty.

Levy illustration sizes move from about fifty to about one hundred and then toward a thousand if paid and fed, and on the pillars that shows up beside fighting inside your own battle.

Offers for recruitment and replenishment reset every in-game week, and on the pillars that shows up beside Borg by name.

English is the only full-audio language on the Steam table, and on the pillars that shows up beside the host as leader.

The PC Early Access line in Diary 4 is early 2027, and on the pillars that shows up beside ageing rulers.

The FAQ line that is still up says 2026 on PC, and on the pillars that shows up beside an unfinished map.

Steam shows a coming-soon date string of 2027 with no demo and no DLC, and on the pillars that shows up beside leaving the critical path.

Co-op custom battles in Early Access allow up to four friends and the host leads, and on the pillars that shows up beside HEMA in the studio.

A co-op campaign is described as a full-release ambition rather than the opening build, and on the pillars that shows up beside a war that may wait.

Mod tools are expected by the full release with tests possible during Early Access, and on the pillars that shows up beside a world that keeps moving.

Borg is the procedural settlement tool the studio named first, and on the pillars that shows up beside fish prices and loyalty.

Skapa builds prop assemblies and is not generative AI, and on the pillars that shows up beside fighting inside your own battle.

Ymir shapes battlefields during development rather than during play, and on the pillars that shows up beside Borg by name.

Legitimacy runs from minus 100 to 100, and on the pillars that shows up beside the host as leader.

Design principles

The principles explain how the sandbox is supposed to feel once the pillars are in motion.

Sandbox still

One Steam still of the world map is filed with the pillars.