Monastery: Ora et Labora

Monastery: Ora et Labora is a management game in which you build and run a medieval monastery. As its newly appointed abbot, you guide the monks through the rule of “Ora et Labora”—pray and work—while managing their daily lives and the community’s resources.

Monastic life

Assign monks to tasks such as farming, crafting and brewing, making use of their skills to meet the community’s needs. They perform divine offices, brew ales and illuminate manuscripts. You can build rooms and add decorations to expand and personalize the monastery, with additions serving practical functions as well as reflecting monastic spirituality.

Resources and prayer

Manage food, water, herbs and tools by balancing their production and consumption. The monastery follows values of simplicity and self-sufficiency. Leading the monks in prayer can affect life in the monastery and the surrounding world: devoted prayers can prevent bad events, bring good fortune and foster a positive atmosphere.

Challenges and decisions

The community faces harsh weather and the threat of war, as well as visiting pilgrims, spiritual crises and moral dilemmas. Challenges and opportunities can come from within or outside the monastery, and your decisions shape the community’s future.