There are many different ways you can approach the game, and ways you can play, including the following:
- Start the game as an Employee, Travelling Trader, Landlord, Business Owner, Hunter, Beggar, or just start with a house and some gold.
- No matter how you start you can make your own path.
- Find love, start a family and begin your dynasty.
- Become an Abbot and run the church, or a guard captain and be above the law.
- Get a job and go to work every day for a handful of coins.
- Become a gravedigger and make your wage sending off the dead. Or maybe you want to be work at the Learning Hall and look after the village children.
- Forage for supplies and sell them to market.
- Trade between markets.
- Buy huts and houses and rent them out.
- Buy and run businesses to supply the town with much needed goods.
- Buy land and develop it into new buildings to help the town grow.
- Destroy the economy, start fires, hoard food, and watch the world burn.
- Become a bit of a thug and steal your way to riches.
- Defend against Viking raids.
Some other key features
- A living, breathing world, where each character is trying to survive and prosper.
- Each character has their own life from start to finish and has the potential to shape the world around them, just like you.
- Live through several generations – when you die, you can continue as one of your children.
- Dynamic seasons and weather that affects the world around you.
- Lots of different types of buildings to, build, purchase, and upgrade.
- Fires and diseases have the potential to not only decimate your home, but also towns and villages all over the map.
- Living economy - nothing simply exists, everything is made and consumed by the population.
- A knowledge system where most actions can be improved on by doing them.
SÆLIG is a hobby project and is currently in Early Access, which means it is still under development, is not feature complete, and there can be bugs. But I love this game and I love what I'm doing with it. I hope you can join me on this journey and have a great time playing.