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A historical 4X where you rule a dynasty, not just an empire.
Released 12 Nov 2026
A historical 4X where you rule a dynasty, not just an empire. 88 civilizations across ten eras of real history on a hex map of Earth. Your rulers age and die; the heir you raised inherits their traits, their rivalries, and your bloodline's standing.
Developed by Synprax Labs · Published by Synprax Labs
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Bloodlines & Banners is a historical 4X grand strategy game where your civilization spans thousands of years, and your family is the thread tying it together. Your ruler is a specific person with a name, a face, a family and a mortality date. When they die you don't pick a replacement from a menu. You raised that heir from childhood, arranged their marriage, and hoped they inherited more of their mother's diplomacy than their father's stubbornness.
Rulers age, accumulate stress, and die; heirs inherit traits and bloodline bonuses
Raise your children with upbringing stances that shape six stats
Arrange marriages across civilizations; children of cross-cultural unions inherit mixed heritage
Courts, advisors, faction loyalty, coups and civil wars
A family tree with portraits that age through nine life stages
90 civilizations across 10 eras, from the Neolithic to the Information Age
50 playable from the start; the rest are reached by advancing through the ages
A 146-technology research tree, era-gated
55 buildings and 40 world wonders, each wonder with a narrated historical blurb
21 resource types with tier-based city reach
Multiple paths to victory: domination, wonders, dynasty prestige, culture, diplomacy and more
Every civilization has its own portraits, music and unit art. Rome sounds different from Carthage; Macedon's soldiers look nothing like Kush's archers. Nine voiced era narrators carry you across the ages, and the research tree is built from a real historical dataset.
Single-player against AI rivals runs entirely on your own machine, no connection needed
Hot-seat: pass the device and share one campaign on one computer
Asynchronous online multiplayer: invite a friend by code and take your turn when you have ten minutes
© 2026 Synprax Labs LLC. Bloodlines & Banners is a trademark of Synprax Labs LLC.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 28 |
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| Controller required | No |
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| AI disclosure | Bloodlines & Banners is designed, architected, and coded by one person with a passion for older asynchronous strategy games. Generative AI is used as a production tool for volume, with portraits, illustration, music, cinematics, voice, and a share of the in-game prose, at a scale a solo developer could not otherwise afford or commission. It is not used to make creative decisions. The art direction is a single locked style anchor authored by hand and enforced across every asset. The game design, the systems architecture, the historical research, the balance, and every line of the server and client are work our sole designer completed with help from AI. In-game text is a mixed case, and we set that out plainly rather than round it up to “human-written”. We are stating this up front, unprompted, because we would rather a partner evaluate the game knowing exactly what it is than discover it later. |
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| Website | Official website |
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