Planned Release Date: Jul 9, 2026

About This Game

ΠΟΛΙΣ is a single-city historical strategy game set in classical Athens. You take the city from Solon's reforms (594 BC) to the Lamian War and the end of the democracy (322 BC) — one complete, unbroken arc of 272 years.

This is not a sandbox. History has a current, and it runs toward 322 BC. Persia withdraws, Sparta endures, Macedon rises, Chaeronea falls in 338, the democracy ends in 322 — and no internal policy can wash those away. What you *can* change is everything in between: who holds power, which faction prevails, whether the gods favour you, how the empire's silver is spent. Even the great counterfactuals of history — making peace at Pylos, vetoing the Sicilian Expedition, holding the line at Aegospotami — are on the table, but only as steeply-priced gambles that converge back to 322 BC.

The event illustrations throughout are public-domain paintings on classical themes; the city itself is reconstructed in a clean 3D style.

**Features**

• **272 years, one city** — a complete historical arc with 332 researched events, from the archaic reforms to the Persian Wars, the age of Pericles, the Peloponnesian War, and the Macedonian dawn.

• **Tension, not number-walls** — balance the pull of aristocratic families, the favour of the Olympian gods, and the demands of the Delian and Second Athenian Leagues. Every gain is bound to a cost.

• **Statesmen with stories** — appoint historical figures, weather their ambition and the envy of rivals, face ostracism and impeachment.

• **107 public-domain paintings on classical themes** illustrate the events — drawn from museum collections in the public domain (not original artwork), each shown in a gilded frame and an in-engine sketch variant.

• **Nine languages** — English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian.

• **3D Athens** — an archaeologically-minded reconstruction of the city: the Acropolis on its limestone crag, the Agora, the Long Walls to Piraeus, the rivers of the Attic plain.

• **A shareable epitaph card** seals each playthrough; emergent endings and meme achievements reward replaying the same arc a different way.

• **For the hardcore: Ironman** — achievements are earned only in Hard + Ironman: a single ever-overwritten save, no reloading, your choices final. Normal mode plays freely with full saves for everyone else.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI (OpenAI ChatGPT) was used to create the title/boot key art and the 20 achievement badge icons. The game's code — which procedurally generates the city, UI and synthesized music — was written with AI coding assistance (Anthropic Claude).