Life Legacies™
Follow the journey
Expansion · Creation to about 1600
People arrive, and your family tree begins. Start at creation with the account of Genesis, or with a scholarly view built on archaeology, and follow the first families as the nations spread across the Earth.
Origins opens with creation and the account of Genesis: Adam and Eve, Noah and the Flood, Babel, and the nations descended from Noah's sons. You can choose instead a scholarly view built on archaeology and genetics, or, where they are well defined, the accounts of other cultures and faiths, each presented respectfully and labeled with where it comes from.
Live as a farmer on the Nile, a herder in ancient Israel, a potter in Mesopotamia, a villager in Shang China, and more. Homes, tools, food, clothing and work are reconstructed from archaeology and ancient writings.
Major events from sacred texts and ancient chronicles become moments families live through, each labeled with where it comes from: scripture, tradition, ancient records or archaeology.
Coastlines, rivers and deltas as they were thousands of years ago, and the stars, moon phases and eclipses your ancestors actually saw. Months follow the calendars people really used, such as the Hebrew lunar calendar.
As the centuries pass, families move from reconstructed lives to documented ones. From the 1500s onward, well-recorded regions use the parish registers and household records real genealogists trace.
The tools, pottery, boats and houses your family makes are the first of their kind in the series. Later chapters improve on them, and the oldest return as heirlooms and museum pieces.
Few games treat the ancient world through ordinary families, and fewer show exactly how much is known and how. Origins does both. Every detail says whether it comes from scripture and tradition, from ancient records, or from what archaeologists have found.
Your family tree begins here and carries forward through every chapter to today.
The road ahead
In development. Expansions are planned and not yet dated; titles other than Wild and Origins are working titles.