HEREDITAS – Press texts (English)
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Updated 22 October 2026

TAGLINE
Found your house. Build your castle. Reach for the crown.

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

SHORT DESCRIPTION
Found your house or lead one of eight noble families in a medieval realm. Raise a castle stone by stone, furnish its halls, command companions and armies, and win the crown through war, trade and diplomacy – or hold what you built against every siege. Coming to Steam in 2027.

LONG DESCRIPTION
Hereditas – Latin for "inheritance" – is about what remains: a castle that stands the test of time, a house whose name is respected across the realm, a legacy built province by province. Create your lord, found a new house or take over one of eight established noble families.

Build your castle the way you want it. Place keeps, residential towers, bowers, service buildings, workshops and gatehouses, and draw walls with a click in any form – from simple palisades to fortress walls, joined by ladders between walkways of different heights. Reshape the land with terraforming to find the best ground, furnish every floor – great hall, kitchen, infirmary, chapel, armoury, treasury and more – and appoint your companions as castellan, chaplain, kitchen master or locator.

Beyond your walls lies a realm that does not wait for you. Rival houses expand, form pacts, trade, go to war and build castles of their own, 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 the bandit camps that threaten your roads. Develop villages across six landscapes, from river valleys to mountains and swamps, and keep goods moving with caravans, supply plans and trade.

When it comes to war, command shield bearers, greatswords, spearmen, archers and crossbowmen, or design your own troop types with custom equipment. Use the shield wall, loose order and the wedge, make use of cover, choke points and high ground, storm castles with battering rams, catapults and siege ladders – or man your battlements and hold the line. Afterwards, tend your wounded in the infirmary and turn veterans into the backbone of your army.

Around you, the world changes with the seasons: rain, storms and blizzards, snow that keeps your soldiers' footprints, and rivers that freeze over in winter.

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

THE FOUR PILLARS
I   Build your castle – keeps, residential towers, workshops and gatehouses, walls in any form from palisade to fortress wall, terraforming, furnished rooms (great hall, kitchen, infirmary, chapel, armoury, treasury) and offices for your companions (castellan, chaplain, kitchen master, locator).
II  Lead your house – your lord's background and traits or a house with its own seat, play style and bonuses; companions with attributes, perks and equipment; villages in six landscapes; caravans, supply plans and trade.
III A realm that does not wait for you – eight noble houses that expand, form pacts, trade and wage war; a crown demanding allegiance and taxes; civil war for the throne, petitions and events, bandit camps.
IV  War and siege – troop types with their own equipment, shield wall, loose order and wedge, rams, catapults and siege ladders, care for the wounded.

MORE FEATURES
- Four seasons and dynamic weather: rain, storms and blizzards, snow with footprints, frozen rivers in winter.
- A living castle: workers, carts and bucket chains that fight fires in wooden castles.
- Atmosphere: light shafts, reflective water, torches and glowing windows at night.
- Cavalry: equip any unit with a horse and barding.
- Morale: units waver, break and flee – and rally around their leaders.
- Physics-based combat with ragdolls, and soldiers who all look different.

KEY FACTS
Single player · Windows · English and German (full audio) · 8 noble houses · 6 landscape types · Coming to Steam in 2027 · Price TBA

TRAILER
Official trailer (2026), 1:30, in-engine footage. Files in the folder 06_Trailer (1440p60, 1080p60 and a textless 1080p60 version).
More videos: https://www.youtube.com/@ForesterGames

ABOUT THE NAME
"Hereditas" is Latin for inheritance – the core idea of the game: building something that lasts.

ABOUT THE STUDIO
Forester Games is an independent game studio from Germany (Forester Games GbR, founded 2026 by Tim Förster and Tim Pielka). As of 2026, four of us are working on Hereditas – alongside our full-time jobs, in our spare time and with a lot of passion for the genre. We are making Hereditas as gamers, for gamers: a real-time strategy game about building castles, inspired in spirit by genre classics such as Stronghold, Knights of Honor, Mount & Blade and Lords of the Realm – an independent game made by a small team, neither a successor to nor a rival of big series. The classics that inspire us are role models – not opponents. More in 01_Factsheet/Hereditas_Studio_EN_DE.pdf.

Website: https://forestergames.com
Press contact: press@forestergames.com – Steam keys for press and content creators on request.
