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Run a medieval manuscript workshop, assembling illustrated pages from drag-and-drop art for odd commissions or free creation.
Released 16 Apr 2026
Assemble Illuminated Pages
Illustrate Odd Commissions
Mix Medieval Pigments
Make and share the most beautiful and bizarre medieval art imaginable! Manage and grow your manuscript workshop by illustrating manuscripts, using friendly tools and a massive range of drag-and-drop artworks from the deepest reaches of history. Welcome to your very own Scriptorium!
Developed by Yaza Games · Published by Mythwright
You take over a medieval scriptorium and work as its illustrator, making pages and other artworks for a cast of unusual clients. In Story Mode, commissions introduce requests and constraints while a larger royal drama unfolds through the people you meet.
Create each piece by placing, resizing, rotating, flipping, and layering ready-made medieval illustrations on parchment. Add colors and text, and earn resources through commissions to unlock more sketches and pigments.
Sandbox Mode offers a freeform canvas without clients or commissions. You can also furnish and decorate your workshop, and export completed artwork as PNG files.
In the supplied reviews, players often enjoy the freedom to combine medieval-style illustrations into funny, personal creations, and many find the sandbox relaxing and absorbing. Others like the humorous clients and story, as well as how accessible the collage-style tools are. Some reviewers say the open-ended making is not engaging for them, and recurring complaints focus on difficulty finding assets and managing or revisiting compositions.
Trumpets in bottoms, horses with human faces, great gilded lettering framed by angels and lilies - nobody has vision like a medieval artist. Hey, that's you! Welcome to your very own illuminated manuscript workshop, the Scriptorium - a cozy, relaxing creative space with no timers and no pressure.
Create your own character in Story Mode, and take commissions from prestigious patrons in a kingdom overflowing with gossip. Illustrate battles and romances, decorate love letters and blackmail notes, design maps, masquerade balls, or, *cough*, bizarre artworks. With every request, you will help shape a royal drama that must be seen to be believed.
Prefer pure creativity? In Sandbox Mode, Scriptorium becomes your medieval “Canva”. Blank parchment, the entire library of medieval assets, and no clients or commissions - just you and your boundless imagination!
The composition screen is the creative heart of Scriptorium, where you decide how you want your masterpiece to look. Choose from light and dark parchments in many shapes and sizes, then drag and drop design elements directly onto your canvas. Work with a rich library of 1000+ pictures based on real medieval art - from beasts and bugs to princes and paupers, faces and butts, clothing, expressions, vegetation, oddments and decorative marginalia. Add text using medieval fonts adorned with ornate uppercase letters to complete your illuminated pages.
A colorful cast of clients brings you requests of all kinds - grand battles between snails and knights, wholesome scenes of peace, love, and the plague... and those aren't even the weird ones. But the customer is always right! Your job is to be creative and have fun as you fulfill their wishes in your own style. Spread your art across the kingdom and become celebrated by bards and historians for centuries to come.
Turn your Scriptorium into the coziest workshop in the kingdom. Spend your earnings to decorate your space with furniture, lighting, tapestries, flowers, windows, columns, and carpets - then make it truly yours with a pet companion by your side, from a purring cat to a loyal dog, or even a tiny dragon. Home is where the art is!
Our imaginative players have embraced Scriptorium's potential by creating:
Letters and invitations
Decorated song lyrics and illustrated quotes
Tarot cards
Cute stickers
Coloring pages to print
Desktop wallpapers
Fantasy maps
Props and handouts for tabletop RPG sessions
Medieval recreations of games, movies, and pop culture moments
And memes, of course!
Scriptorium is built for sharing. Save your work to your gallery, then export it as a PNG optimized for printing and social sharing. Show it to the world, or keep it forever as your own little masterpiece.
We think you'll love Scriptorium if you enjoy…
A Little To The Left, Sticky Business, Tiny Glade, Hozy, House Flipper 2, Make Room, Canvas of Kings, Is this seat taken?, Tiny Book Shop, Strange Antiquities, Blender, Wallpaper Engine, Inkulinati, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Pentiment
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 54 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
