Kingdoms in Ink

Watch a world's history unfold on a single map

Kingdoms in Ink is a grand strategy game where you watch a sword-and-sorcery world on a single map. You can take control and steer a nation, or simply sit back and watch this world's history play out. Over time, nations grow, forge alliances, go to war, and their borders shift moment by moment.

Enjoy the grand historical tapestry of an imaginary world.

Auto Mode: watch history unfold

Leave the running of the realm to the court and witness the rise and fall of nations. Enjoy an ever-changing history from a bird's-eye view.

The histories of its people

It's not only the colors on the map that change over the course of history. Alliances and battles, kings and generals, heroes, and events in towns are recorded as they happen. Open the records of any town or person that catches your eye to follow the small stories within the larger history. At the end of a game, you can even export a history book, complete with maps, as an HTML file.

Packed with classic fantasy tropes

This fantasy world is home to many races, including humans, elves, and dwarves, and is filled with named seas and mountain ranges, ruins, and dungeons. Adventurers set out in search of holy relics, dragons cross the map, and the revival of the Demon Lord brings new peril to the age. Raise a party of heroes to defeat the Demon Lord, or conquer the world as a demon nation. There are countless histories to enjoy.

A new map, a new history

Generate new worlds of continents or archipelagos, or use a world seed to regenerate the same world. Switch map styles and decorative frames, and hide the interface to take in the world itself in full view.

The default “Chronicle” mode has no victory screen, so you can enjoy this world for as long as you like. Even after one nation rules the world, small states eventually break away in the provinces, and history goes on.