Version 1.3.0: a fairer chronicle, your language on the map, a clear price

The biggest update so far. Players in eight languages played the whole chronicle on phones, tablets and computers, and this version is built on what they found.

A fairer chronicle

• The whole chronicle now takes about 13 hours at normal pace, and the five eras are much closer in length. Era I, about two and a half to three hours, is free to start.
• Winter is gentler on the fields (a small harvest instead of almost none), and autumn brings in more.
• When you move to Chorin, the new site starts with ten minutes of double bricks, fish and grain, and you can give your abbot a name on the way.
• Your land charters can now be improved with silver, up to three times.
• If a task doesn’t suit you, you can draw a new one every 30 minutes (↻).
• Era III: the monument decays more slowly and each repair restores more. To reach 1797, keep the ruin at 40% or better for 20 minutes of play; the goal button now shows how long is left.

Echoes and events

• The abbot’s water decision (the second mill or new fishponds) now echoes in era II.
• Choice events no longer come one after another: at most one every eight minutes, and the same one never twice within three quarters of an hour.
• Events keep to their place and time: storms and ice only where they belong, and no visitors on an island that has no one to visit it.
• In era V the whole game speaks of the people of Chorin today and their visitors: the headings, the offices and the guest at the gate, not an estate.

Easier to read

• Place names on the miniature and the map are in your language.
• Numbers are tidier: “5” instead of “5.0”, “600K” instead of “600.0K”, and very large numbers move on to the next unit instead of showing “1000.00B”.
• Centuries are written as “13th c.”, and “Your chronicle” keeps to the order of the years.
• The chronicle bar moves in tenths of a percent at the start, so you see it grow from the first minutes.
• When you move someone to a new office, the game tells you which post is left empty.

Phones, keyboards and the charter

• On phones all five resources fit on one line, and notices appear at the top instead of over the goal button.
• Windows are never taller than the screen: the text scrolls, the buttons stay in view.
• The abbot’s charter uses the name you just typed when you save or share it, Esc closes the full-screen view first, and every decision of your chronicle is listed in the finale.
• The buildings, places and brothers in the miniature can be reached with the Tab key, and their tooltips show on focus.

The price, plainly

• Era I is free to start. The whole chronicle is one purchase of €9.99 (VAT included). No subscription, no ads.
• If it isn’t for you, write to us within 30 days and you get your money back, no questions asked.

Texts in all eight languages

Hundreds of small corrections: clearer wording, consistent names, the right quotation marks, and charter texts that no longer assume the abbot is a man.

Thank you for playing. If you notice anything odd, write to support@choringame.com.