A grand, immersive simulation of humanity's longest hour
"The wealth of nations depends not on gold alone, but on the intricate balance of industry, commerce, and human endeavor." The development of your nation is in the hands of you and your people. The decisions you take will shape to have lasting impact and side-effects on history. Rise to the challenge, and discover a world you have yet to see.
Pay what you want · Built for players who read the spreadsheet behind the map.
The simulation behind the map
The Long Century puts you in power during history's most volatile years and then asks you to hold it together. You decide who you are in this world: the reformer, the opportunist, the true believer. And the world decides the rest. Rivals don't wait. Populations move, markets shift, loyalties fray. Every call you make lands somewhere, on someone, and the consequences find their way back. This is what grand strategy feels like when it's working: the weight of a real decision, in a world that feels like it could have been real.
Underneath all of it, every person has jobs, needs, and opinions. They trade, migrate, and change over time. Markets respond to what actually happens in the world. Everything feeds into everything else, and it all feels real and meshed together.
Buy / SupportEvery system feeds the others. Reality takes control, not arbitrary events and scripts.
Markets, transactions and trade are all driven by actual supply and demand, where money is real and contrete. Unlike other implementations, money isn't mana.
Painstakingly reconstructed from historical data, all natural resources are properly modeled for those who really want accuracy and immersion in fighting for rare resources.
The fortunes of the existing political landscape and the future of the nation are shaped by institutions and laws that you must place your effort into to....
All core mechanics have been designed to either be extensible or highly customizable. Out-of-the-box is a curated and lovable experience, but still just the beginning.
We agree that the core of this genre is the ability of the community to freely create and share mods. First class support for modding has been here from the start.
A modern, groundbreaking engine and compute model designed over years to make full use of hardware. It allows us to do far more than anyone has attempted on hardware, while staying at speeds you can enjoy.
The Long Century is built for multiplayer from the ground up: host or join lobbies over the network, with the same deep simulation running for every player. Discord and Steam integration tie it into the communities you already play in. You can work together as an alliance to spread the revolution, restore the Ancien Regime, or to survive the storm of change. Maybe you want to compete instead, and outwit the other players to take charge of the Metternich system and dominate Europe. Or even sail across the vast oceans to secure empire or liberate colones from their overlords. The choices are vast and the future is for the bold and brave to shape.
Images of gameplay within The Long Century.
Design notes and progress straight from development.
One way to do each thing, names instead of numbers, read-only views, and a rule to build in the script before adding to the game. Here are the calls we made on the scripting interface, what we turned down, and what is still open.
Read more →Decisions, events, casus belli, state foci, state buildings, and most of the on-screen interface are written in scripts you can open and read. Here is what they can touch, what they cannot, and how changes stay in step across a multiplayer game.
Read more →Every game day, real goods and real money move through local submarkets, the world market, and its supply pools. Prices react to what was actually scarce, bought, and left unsold.
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