HEREDITAS – Press texts (English)
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TAGLINE
Found your house. Build your castle. Reach for the crown.

ONE-LINER
Hereditas is a single-player medieval strategy game about building castles, leading a noble house and fighting for the crown – for Windows, in English and German.

SHORT DESCRIPTION (approx. 50 words)
Found your own house or lead one of eight noble families. Build your castle stone by stone, furnish its halls, lead companions and armies, and contend for the crown through war, trade and diplomacy – or hold what you have built against every siege. Early Access coming soon on Steam.

LONG DESCRIPTION
Hereditas – Latin for "inheritance" – is about what remains: a castle that withstands every siege, a house whose name is respected across the realm, a legacy built over many campaigns.

Found your own house or take the lead of one of eight noble families. Raise keeps, towers, workshops and farm buildings, draw free-form walls of different heights and styles, shape the terrain and furnish great hall, kitchen, infirmary, chapel, armoury and treasury – then appoint your companions to their offices.

Beyond your walls lies a realm that does not wait for you. Rival houses expand, forge alliances and go to war of their own accord. The crown demands loyalty and taxes – or war. Civil war and bandits keep the land restless. Develop villages across six landscape types and keep goods moving along trade routes and supply lines.

When it comes to war, battles have weight. Raise troop types with their own equipment and order them into shield wall, wedge or open order. Archers fire flat volleys over open ground and arc their arrows over walls. Cavalry charges knock infantry off their feet. Units break and flee when their flank collapses – and rally around their leaders. Besiege castles with rams, catapults, ladders and fire arrows, or defend your own walls and tend to the wounded after the battle. Wooden castles burn, and fire spreads unless bucket chains put it out in time.

The world changes around you: rain, thunderstorms and blizzards, snow with footprints, autumn colours, and frozen rivers your armies can cross in winter.

THE FOUR PILLARS
I   Build your castle – keeps, towers and workshops, free-form walls in different heights and styles, terraforming, furnished rooms (great hall, kitchen, infirmary, chapel, armoury, treasury) and offices for your companions (castellan, chaplain, master of the kitchen, locator).
II  Lead your house – your lord's origin and traits, companions with attributes and perks, villages in six landscape types, trade routes and supply lines.
III A realm that does not wait for you – eight noble houses that expand, ally and wage war; a crown demanding loyalty and taxes; civil war and bandits.
IV  War and siege – troop types with their own equipment, shield wall, wedge and open order, rams, catapults and siege ladders, care for the wounded.

MORE FEATURES
- Cavalry: equip any unit with a horse and barding; charges knock infantry down.
- Fire: fire arrows, spreading blazes in wooden castles, bucket chains, rain that douses flames.
- Morale: units waver, break and flee – and rally around their leaders.
- Dynamic weather and four seasons with real effects: frozen rivers in winter, harvest in autumn, mud in spring.
- Physics-based combat with ragdolls, and soldiers who all look different.
- A living castle: workers, carts, market days and patrolling guards.
- Atmosphere: light shafts, reflective water, torches and glowing windows at night.

KEY FACTS
Single player · Windows · English and German · 8 noble houses · 6 landscape types · Early Access coming soon on Steam

ABOUT THE NAME
"Hereditas" is Latin for inheritance. The game was previously announced as "Forsaken Realm" and was renamed in 2026 to reflect its core idea: building something that lasts.

ABOUT THE STUDIO
Forester Games is an independent game studio from Germany. Hereditas is our first game – a medieval strategy game for everyone who has always wanted to build and hold a castle of their own.
