Of Crowns & Chains is a solo-developed grand-strategy sandbox where every battalion (1k soldiers), nation (Europe only for now), and populace is represented and dynamic on a seamless spherical Earth. Lead a nation of your choice in January 1914 and influence the course of your nation and history as time marches onwards.
CURRENT FEATURES
True-Sphere Map (Europe) – No flat-map distortion: Europe’s geography, borders and distances curve naturally around the globe. (Manually-drawn states and procedural pre-generated subdivisions for the rest of the globe are planned.)
Nation Selection & Government Types – Choose any existing European state, each with its own government type, alliances, vassals or personal unions.
Mass-Scale Unit System – Many battalions fit inside a single tile, delivering a grander sense of warfare and allowing more strategic allocations; higher density options planned for both tiles and units.
Ground Combat & Casualties – Units clash, suffer casualties, and gain experience; individual models disappear to indicate losses—no graphic violence.
Realistic Manpower Pool – Eligible soldiers stem from 1914 starting data, age brackets, male ratios, injury level, and conscription laws.
Wars, Ceasefires & Alliances – Secure allies, occupy tiles, and declare wars; hostilities can end in ceasefire (peace conferences in-development). Cascading calls-to-arms can pull suzerains, vassals and allies into conflict; tiles can be occupied and liberated.
SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT
Wishlist and share your thoughts in the discussion boards.
To address player feedback regarding the game\'s optimization issues, the upcoming Alpha 1.0.3 update on Friday (10/24/2025) will add three tile density modes:
Low (7,000 tiles across Europe)
[/*]Medium (22,000 tiles across Europe)
[/*]High (42,000 tiles across Europe)
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As of Alpha 1.0.2, the game\'s Europe-only map has 42,000 tiles and uses a 16384x8192 tile index map. This is very computationally intensive and high-end hardware is required to play at this extreme level of tile density (more expensive rendering and pathfinding, more frequent tile updates, etc), hence why the minimum specification requirements are so high as of now.
The lower tile density modes (Low and Medium) will offer higher performance for all systems and they will allow players who prefer larger tiles to play on the map that fits their preferences.
All tile density modes are all planned to have the same states and provinces to ensure macro-level gameplay remains the same across all tile densities, so once historical provinces and states are added to the game, tile density would determine how many sub-province subdivisions (municipalities) each province has.
Even with these tile density modes (and keeping inherent hardware limitations in mind), I\'ll try my best to optimize the core systems to improve the game\'s performance on all tile density modes for broader accessibility.
If time permits, the Alpha 1.0.3 update will also come with bug fixes, optimizations, and potentially new features.
Minimum Setup
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS 64-bit or later
- Processor: Intel Core i3-6100 3.7 GHz or AMD Ryzen 3 1200Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel UHD Graphics (Integrated Graphics) or AMD R7 360
- Storage: 3 GB available space
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