Norman Ascension — An online medieval life and dynasty RPG, coming to Steam

NORMANDY, 1066 · AN ONLINE MEDIEVAL LIFE & DYNASTY RPG

One life ends. Your House continues.

You begin as an unknown eighteen-year-old with modest means and a name few remember. Work, trade, serve, break the law or keep your faith. Marry, raise an heir, and carry your House into the next generation, in a persistent world shared with other players.

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Online multiplayerPersistent worldGenerational playSoon to wishlist on Steam

In-engine footage · Work in progress

THE GAME

One life ends.
Your House continues.

An online multiplayer medieval life and dynasty RPG set in a persistent shared world. Shape your character’s life through work, trade, service, crime and faith. Build a family, prepare an heir, and carry your House into the next generation.

Make your name

Travel between towns, earn your keep, take contracts and build your reputation. Trade at markets, cook and craft, buy a horse, hire protection and camp beyond the town gates. Acquire land, serve a patron, or risk the consequences of life outside the law.

Share the world

Meet other players through town, regional and trade chat. Exchange private letters, create or join player-run factions, and buy and sell through market listings. Form marriages between player Houses, or risk asynchronous conflict through caravan interceptions.

Your life is only the beginning

Form relationships, marry, have children or adopt an heir. Characters grow older, retire and die. Continue as your successor, inheriting wealth, holdings and consequences from the life that came before.

Leave your mark

Record your family’s story in your House Chronicle. Build a legacy across generations in a shared world that continues after your character’s death.

FIRST LOOK · IN-ENGINE TIMELAPSE

One world.
Every hour, every season.

Dawn mist over the forest. A tide that comes and goes. Storms that roll in over the wheat and clear by sunset. A year that turns from bare branches to snow.

Captured in engine. Work in progress: visuals and details may evolve during development.

Day and night

Sunrise to starlight and back, with the moon rising over the sea.

Weather

Fair skies, haze, rain and thunder, each changing the light on the land.

Seasons

Spring leaf, summer harvest, autumn colour and winter snow.

FROM THE WORLD

Normandy, 1066.

Ripe wheat glowing under a low evening sun, mist gathering along the far hedgerows

A stone abbey on a tidal island at dawn, the sands laid bare at low tide

Morning haze drifting between old oaks along a forest ride

Chalk cliffs and a sea arch lit gold by the setting sun

A meadow white with frost under a clear winter sky

A cart track running past a lone oak on a hazy summer morning

Dawn mist lying over a forest canopy that runs to the horizon

Rain sweeping over a country lane under a storm sky

A chalk coastline and turquoise shallows seen from the air

COMING TO STEAM

Soon to wishlist.

Norman Ascension is still taking shape in the shadows of history. Its Steam page is in review, and wishlists open as soon as it is live.

An internet connection is required to play.

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The arms of Strategic Sloth: a crowned sloth holding a scroll on a green shield, with oak leaves and a banner reading Strategic Sloth

BY THE HAND OF

The House of Strategic Sloth

Slow to hurry. Sure to finish.

Norman Ascension is designed and developed in our own studio. Given under our seal, anno Domini MMXXVI.

AN ORIGINAL GAME BY STRATEGIC SLOTH

More to be revealed at launch.