Saelig

Saelig is a strategy game combining simulation, RPG elements, trading and business management. Set in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Wessex during the Dark Ages of England, it follows your efforts to secure your family’s survival, wealth and legacy. You make your own way in a world where characters lead their own lives; you are not there to save the world or play a hero, but to live and try to thrive.

Choose your path

You can begin as a beggar or a business owner, then shape your life through your choices. Work as a labourer, trader, landlord, hunter, watchman, criminal or in other roles. You can also seek positions of authority, such as becoming an Abbot who runs the church or a Town-Reeve who stands above the law.

You can find love, start a family and build a dynasty across generations. Take humble work, earn silver as a gravedigger, care for children at the Learning Hall, forage and sell resources, or hunt animals and sell their hides and meat. Trade goods between markets, run businesses that supply towns, invest in property and rent out homes, or buy land and develop it as the community grows. You can establish towns alongside other civilians, adopt orphans and send them to work in the mines, or manipulate the economy, hoard resources and start fires. You can also steal for wealth, fight to survive Viking raids, and win the King’s favour to rise to the rank of Thegn.

A living world

Every character has a life from birth to death and can influence the world. When your character dies, you can continue the story as one of your children, carrying it across multiple generations. Seasons and weather change dynamically and affect the environment and gameplay.

The population produces and consumes every item in a living economy. You can construct, buy and upgrade a variety of buildings, while fires and diseases can devastate homes, towns and villages. A knowledge system improves your skills through repeated practice and mastery.