Port of Kings

You inherit a rock above the best natural anchorage on this coast, and a fort with no roof.

Nobody is coming to help. For the first years there is only you: breaking stone, cutting timber, walking the beach after storms, writing letters to ports you have never seen. Repair the fort, save florins, and people will come and live behind your gate.

Then it stops being about your two hands.

A HARBOUR, ACROSS GENERATIONS!

Every season you answer some decision and watch what it costs. Hire households, raise cottages and quays, put merchants on the trade routes of the thirteenth-century Adriatic, and hold the whole thing together through famine, plague, blockade and the King's tax collector.

You will not finish it. Lords die of old age, and the next one inherits your harbour, your debts and your reputation — including the parts you would rather they did not.

Fight for your place among most famous harbours of middle age.