Hereditas

Hereditas is a medieval strategy game about building a castle, ruling a house and fighting for the crown. Create your lord, found a new house or take over one of eight established noble families – then shape your legacy province by province.
Build your castle
Place keeps, residential towers, bowers, service buildings, workshops, gatehouses and walls – from simple palisades to fortress walls.

Draw walls with a click, set any wall form and join different wall types, with ladders linking walkways at different heights.

Reshape the land with terraforming to find the best ground for your walls.

Furnish every floor: great hall, kitchen, infirmary, chapel, armoury, treasury and more – and appoint companions as castellan, chaplain, kitchen master or locator.

Lead your house
Create your lord with a background and traits, or lead a house with its own seat, play style and bonuses.

Recruit companions with attributes, perks and equipment, send them into battle or into castle offices.

Develop villages with fishermen, quarries, mines, orchards, cattle yards, grain farms and more across six landscapes – from river valleys to mountains and swamps.

Move goods with caravans, set up supply plans and trade with other houses.

A realm that lives without you
Rival houses expand, form pacts, trade and go to war – and build their own castles, from humble wooden forts to the mighty fortress of the crown.

The crown watches you: swear allegiance as a vassal and pay your taxes, or refuse and face war.

Fight a civil war for the throne, answer petitions and events, and clear bandit camps that threaten your roads.

War and siege
Command shield bearers, greatswords, spearmen, archers and crossbowmen, or design your own troop types with custom equipment.

Use formations such as the shield wall, loose order and the wedge, and make use of cover, choke points and high ground.

Storm castles with battering rams, catapults and siege ladders – or man your battlements and towers and hold the line.

Tend your wounded in the infirmary and turn veterans into the backbone of your army.

Build a castle. Build a house. Build a legacy.