Forester Games

A game by Forester Games

Found your house.
Raise your castle.
Claim the crown.

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The game

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.

Hereditas is a singleplayer strategy game about castle building, leading a noble house and the struggle for the crown – for Windows, in English and German.

Explore the four pillars
Noble houses
08
Landscape types
06
Languages
EN/DE
Screenshot: a stone castle with a round tower and curtain wall on a misty hillside, sheep grazing in the grass

Chapter I

Build your castle

Raise keeps, towers, service buildings and workshops. Draw free-form walls of varied heights and types, terraform the ground and furnish halls, kitchens, infirmaries, chapels, armories and treasuries – then assign your companions to their posts.

  • Castellan
  • Chaplain
  • Kitchen master
  • Locator
Screenshot: a curved stone wall being drawn freely across a green hillside in the building mode
Free-form walls, drawn by hand
Screenshot: the House Creator with a yellow and black coat of arms bearing a tower, and choices for shield pattern and colours

Chapter II

Lead your house

Shape your lord’s background and traits. Recruit companions, equip them and grow their attributes and perks. Develop villages across six landscape types and keep goods flowing along trade routes and supply lines.

  • Lord & traits
  • Companions
  • Villages
  • Trade routes
Screenshot: furnishing the rooms of a service building inside a castle courtyard, with resources shown along the top
Furnishing the halls
Screenshot: the world map spread on a wooden table, islands and coastlines with the coloured territories of several houses

Chapter III

A realm that lives without you

Rival houses expand, forge alliances and wage war on their own. The Crown demands allegiance and taxes – or war. Civil conflict and bandits keep the land restless.

  • Rival houses
  • The Crown
  • Diplomacy
  • Bandits
Screenshot: a company of soldiers following a blue banner along a dirt path beside a round stone tower

Chapter IV

War and siege

Field unit types in custom equipment and order them into shield wall, wedge or loose order. Lay siege with rams, catapults and ladders – or hold your own walls, and tend the wounded when the fighting is done.

  • Shield wall
  • Wedge
  • Rams & catapults
  • Siege ladders
Screenshot: a long crenellated curtain wall with a half-timbered tower under an evening sky, sheep in the meadow
Curtain wall at dusk

Hereditas

A realm that lives without you.

05 Studio

Forester Games

An independent game studio from Germany.

Hereditas is our first game – a medieval strategy game for everyone who has ever wanted to raise a castle of their own, and to hold it.

06 Press

Press kit – ready to download

Fact sheet, press texts, key art, logos and wishlist overlays for videos – everything in one download, free to use for your coverage.

Download press kit ZIP · 35.5 MB · EN / DE

Press contact press@forestergames.com

Steam keys for press and content creators on request.

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