Norman Ascension — One life ends. Your House continues.

Normandy · 1066

One life ends. Your House continues.

An online multiplayer medieval life and dynasty RPG set in a persistent shared world.

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Every name begins somewhere

You begin as an unknown eighteen-year-old with modest means and a name few remember. What will your descendants inherit?

Shape a life through work, trade, service, crime, and faith. Build a family, prepare an heir, and carry your House into the next generation, in a world you share with other players.

The life

Four things a life is made of.

A traveller on a country lane beneath an oak

Make your name

Travel between Norman towns, earn your keep, and build your reputation. Your choices shape your opportunities, and the obligations that follow.

Work and trade. Take quests and contracts, trade at markets, cook and craft.
Take to the road. Buy a horse, hire escorts, forage, and camp beyond the town gates.
Rise in the world. Acquire holdings and land, or serve a patron.
Choose your side of the law. Trade lawfully, or steal and smuggle and risk the guards and the prison.

The chalk coast of Normandy seen from the air

Share the world

One persistent Normandy, lived in by other players.

Talk. Town, regional, trade, and faction chat, and private letters between players.
Organise. Create or join player-run factions.
Deal. Buy and sell through market listings.
Ally. Form marriages between player Houses.
Contend. Risk asynchronous conflict through caravan interceptions.

III

Your life is only the beginning

Form relationships, marry, have children, or adopt an heir. Characters grow older, retire, and die. Continue as your successor, inheriting wealth, holdings, and consequences from the life that came before.

A traveller with a torch in a meadow beneath the stars

Leave your mark

Record your family’s story in your House Chronicle. Build a legacy across generations in a shared world that continues after your character’s death.

From one life to a House

Eighteen
Unknown, with modest means.
A trade
Work, contracts, markets, the road.
A name
Reputation, land, a patron, or the law at your heels.
A family
Marriage, children, an heir.
An ending
Age, retirement, death.
A House
Your successor carries it on.

Day and night

Sunrise to starlight and back, with the moon rising over the sea and a tide that comes and goes.

Weather

Fair skies, haze, rain, and thunder, each changing the light on the land.

Seasons

Spring leaf, summer harvest, autumn colour, and winter snow.

One world, every hour and every season. Seventy seconds of unretouched in-engine timelapse.

The battle

The shield wall.

Archers loose. Kite shields lock. Two lines meet in the open field. In-engine battle footage, work in progress.

Two shield walls locked together, seen from above

Hooded archers loosing arrows toward a distant line

Helmeted soldiers pressing forward behind kite shields

Gallery

Unretouched, in engine.

A traveller walking toward Mont-Saint-Michel at dawn

A traveller carrying a torch through the forest at night

The cliffs and sea arch at Étretat at sunset

Questions

What to know.

What kind of game is it?

An online multiplayer medieval life and dynasty RPG. You live one character’s life in Normandy from the age of eighteen, then continue as their heir.

Is it multiplayer?

Yes. The world is persistent and shared with other players, and an internet connection is required to play.

When does it release?

The release date is to be announced. Norman Ascension is in development; wishlisting on Steam is the way to hear when it is ready.

What platform?

Windows PC, on Steam.

Are these real screenshots?

Yes. Every image and video on this page is an unretouched in-engine capture. They show a work in progress, and visuals and details may evolve during development.

Who is making it?

Norman Ascension is designed and developed by Remi Couture at Strategic Sloth LLC, an independent studio.