Crown of Ashes is now playable on itch.io! 👑
Every decision leaves a scar. Every death leaves an inheritance.
Crown of Ashes is a free narrative strategy and dynasty management game played directly in your browser.
You rule the kingdom of Valdoria, making decisions that affect four fundamental pillars:
👥 People 💰 Treasury ⚔️ Army 📚 Knowledge
But surviving a single reign is only part of the game.
When a ruler dies, the world does not simply reset.
Your dynasty continues.
Noble houses remember how you treated them. Political decisions can have consequences years or even generations later. Territories can prosper, rebel or disappear. Old enemies can return. And sometimes a decision made by your grandfather becomes your problem decades later.
⚔️ Main features
- Binary narrative decisions
- Persistent dynasties and successive rulers
- Noble houses and political relationships
- Dynamic kingdom state
- Immediate and delayed consequences
- Weighted RNG and anti-repetition systems
- Events influenced by previous decisions
- Multiple difficulty modes
- Daily Challenge
- Dynasty chronicles and historical codex
- Multiple ways to die
- Automatic browser saving
- Mouse, keyboard and touchscreen support
🎲 Built around replayability
One of my main goals while developing Crown of Ashes was avoiding the feeling of simply shuffling the same deck of events again and again.
Events are selected using conditions, dynamic weights, cooldowns, previous decisions, political relationships, hidden variables and the current situation of the kingdom.
The idea is that each dynasty should create its own story.
Sometimes you'll lose because the Treasury collapsed.
Sometimes because the people revolted.
And sometimes because a noble family you betrayed forty years ago finally decided to settle the score.
🌎 Language
The game is currently written entirely in Rioplatense Spanish.
There is no English translation yet, so please keep that in mind before playing.
🎮 Play it
Crown of Ashes is free and playable directly in the browser on itch.io.
https://donmariando.itch.io/crown-of-ashes
I'd especially love feedback about:
- event repetition
- difficulty and balance
- confusing decisions
- mobile experience
- interesting or unexpected stories that happened during your dynasty
- bugs
If you play it, I'd love to hear how your dynasty ended. 👑🔥
Thanks for checking out Crown of Ashes!