Every empire falls. A bloodline endures.
Bloodlines & Banners fuses the sweep of a Civilization-style 4X with the intimacy of a dynasty simulator. You don't just rule an empire — you rule a family that rules an empire, generation after generation, from the first Neolithic campfire to the age beyond tomorrow.
Settle a hex map of the real Earth, research a 146-technology ladder, raise 40 wonders and push your borders against 88 civilizations across ten eras. Meanwhile your ruler ages, marries, raises heirs and dies; children inherit faces, traits and grudges; courtiers form factions, factions make demands, demands become coups, and coups become civil wars. Succession is not a menu. It is the game.
The game is in Early Access: a complete campaign is playable today, and it is not finished — the economy, the AI rivals and online multiplayer are being built and tuned with the people playing it.
Fact sheet
- Developer
- Synprax Labs LLC (independent, United States)
- Title
- Bloodlines & Banners
- Genre
- Historical 4X · grand strategy · dynasty simulation · turn-based
- Platforms
- Windows PC (Steam) · web browser · itch.io
- Players
- Single-player against AI rivals; hot-seat on one device; online multiplayer with friends by invitation
- Price
- $14.99 (Early Access; includes every update through full release)
- Scope
- 10 eras · 88 civilizations · 146 technologies · 40 wonders · hundreds of named historical figures
- Content
- War, plague, famine and death in a historical context, depicted non-graphically. Dynastic marriage involves adult characters only. Suggested rating: Teen / PEGI 12.
- Steam App ID
- 5264160
Key art
Capsule art, 1232 × 706. Further sizes available on request.
What makes it different
The map. A hex map of our own Earth in 14 regions with real terrain and resources. Settle river valleys, cut roads, raise wonders — each with its own construction cinematic — and watch cities sprawl into districts on their own sub-maps.
The bloodline. Genetics, upbringing, stress, opinions, factions, coups and civil wars. Tutor your heirs, arrange their marriages, and survive their ambitions.
The ages. Eras turn like chapters: generations pass in a cinematic sweep, the court turns over, and the world's art, music, units and events transform with the age — bronze to iron to steam to silicon.
The history. Events grounded in real episodes, an in-game source button that cites the scholarship behind what you are playing, and an era-scored orchestral soundtrack with voiced narrators.
Screenshots
Click any image for the 1600 × 900 version. Captured from the game; free to use in coverage of Bloodlines & Banners.
Trailer
The gameplay trailer is on the Steam page. A downloadable 1080p file is available on request.
About Synprax Labs
Synprax Labs LLC is a small independent studio in the United States. Bloodlines & Banners is its historical grand-strategy title; the studio also develops the space-strategy game Axis & Abyss.
Contact
Press and review keys: press@synpraxlabs.com
Player support: support@synpraxlabs.com
Community: discord.gg/ukN8EkHUam