GodWright v2.0.0 - The World Remembers
Most god games let you play with a world. In GodWright, the world now watches you back. Every villager who sees you act reacts on the spot, and every village keeps its own opinion of you: how much it believes, how much it loves you, and how much it fears you.
They See You
Villagers who witness a power react immediately: they kneel in the rain you send and run from the fire you drop.
Hearts, alarm, anger and doubt appear over their heads, and prayer-light rises from the faithful.
Your deeds earn you a name. Bring rain and they call you the Gentle Rain. Rain fire and you become the Burning Sky. There are 39 titles to earn.
A new strip under the calendar shows your title and your believers. Click it for the full Reputation panel.
Idols, Prayers and Pilgrims
Devout towns raise an idol to you: radiant gold if they love you, weathered stone if they are unsure, dread obsidian if they fear you.
At night, idols send up pillars of light and the faithful walk to them to pray.
Villages pray to you by name when they are hungry, sick, under attack, or at war. Answer them and their love grows. Ignore them and they begin to doubt.
New prayer: Smite our enemies. A town at war asks you to strike its enemy.
New power: Revelation. A pillar of light that shows yourself to your people. Faith rises, heresy fades, no one is harmed.
Push Them Too Far
Terror without love turns to heresy. A town can renounce you and tear down your idol.
A Godslayer rises from among the people who survived your wrath or lost someone to it, and marches on your idols. The first killing blows glance off.
Villagers remember what you did to them personally. Inspect anyone to see it: "Survived your fire (year 1)".
Someone you blessed may become your prophet and preach your name to neighbouring towns.
A Rival God
Towns that renounce you are claimed by a rival deity with a name of its own.
It raises its own void idols, whispers doubt into your faithful towns, curses them, and blesses its followers.
It speaks. It will taunt you by name in the event log.
Let it grow too strong and it steals your title. You become the Forgotten until your believers outnumber its heretics again.
Win towns back with Revelation, blessings, or holy war. Leave it with no one to hear it, and the world is yours alone.
Speak Your Law
New Commandments tab: choose one law for the world.
Thou shalt not make war: devout towns make peace. It also serves as a truce with the rival god.
Make holy war on the heretics: devout towns march on the rival's followers. A broken heretic town yields and kneels to you once more.
Be fruitful and multiply: devout towns are blessed with plenty.
The devout obey. The doubters defy you, and drift toward heresy.
The World Keeps the Scars
Great deeds name the land: Ashfall, The Drowned Vale, Voidscar, The Ruin of Haven, Godslayer's Fall. Names appear on the map like a fantasy atlas.
Your Saga: read the story of your reign, written out as it happened.
Save as picture: export your Saga beside a map of your world, ready to share.
Devout towns sometimes name their children after your deeds.
The soundtrack now follows your reputation.
New Faith Fill map overlay shows which towns are faithful, fearful, doubting, or heretic.
A Better First Hour
New guided chapter, The god they cannot see, introduces the relationship with your people.
The main menu is now a living town worshipping its god.
Wildfires no longer burn whole continents into permanent dirt in the first minutes. Grass fires depend on how dry the land is, and burned land regrows.
Rebalanced population growth: young villages grow quickly, large cities settle to a sustainable pace.
Fewer animals flooding the map, and animal births no longer fill the event log.
Achievements appear as a compact card instead of a banner across the screen.
Zoom now centers on the cursor, left-drag pans the map, and the camera no longer drifts past the world's edge.
New Look
New natural terrain palette with hill shading, so mountains and valleys have real shape.
Autumn and winter no longer wash out the map; snow settles on high ground first.
New terrain brush icons.
Also New
8 new achievements, including Beloved, The Heretic's Challenge, Deicide Denied and Twilight of a False God.
All new text is available in all 10 supported languages.
Existing saves still load. Worlds from earlier versions begin with a clean reputation.
Be a loving god, a feared one, or a forgotten one. Your world will not forget which.