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.

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.

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.

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