About This Game

Hist Maker: ReMake is a world history you can play. Each era is a level. You hold its people, events, objects and institutions, and you combine them two at a time to make what happened next: put Caesar and Legion together and you get the Gallic wars. Keep going, and you rebuild the era from the ground up.

69 eras, from antiquity to the early 20th century

East Asia, Europe, West Asia, Africa, South Asia and the Americas each run along their own timeline, and every era on it is a level with its own people and events. In Rome, slaves and gladiators rise with Spartacus. The Renaissance, the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution are all here, and so are China's Three Kingdoms, where the Sun-Liu alliance meets Cao Cao at Red Cliffs, and Japan from the Sengoku warlords to the Meiji Restoration.

Put history together yourself

Each level's achievements name what you need to restore. In the French Revolution, "The republic tries a king" asks for the Republic, the Execution of Louis XVI and the Guillotine. Which two things lead to each is yours to work out from the history, and every step you figure out gives you one more element to use.

Restore the era's panorama

A panorama of the era runs along the bottom of the screen, and each achievement paints in more of it. In the Industrial Revolution, one river valley goes from a village with a sailing barge to water mills and pumping engines, then railways, factory halls, electric street lights at night, and finally a motor car on the road.

Every quotation has a source

Each combination comes with a one-line explanation, and about 6,000 quotations from historical sources appear as you discover things, each with its source. Combine Emperor Napoleon and Britain, and Trafalgar arrives with Nelson's signal: "England expects that every man will do his duty."

Help when you're stuck

An in-game assistant watches your deductions. If you keep circling the same elements, it speaks up: this element has nothing new to give with what you've found so far, or you still have new elements you haven't tried. It only points a direction; it never makes the combination for you.

For an easier time, spend the Restore Points you earn in play (not real money) at the assist shop: dim pairs that already failed, dim elements that can't lead anywhere, record formulas with a similar meaning automatically. Every assist can be switched on or off at any time, so you can turn them off when you'd rather work it out alone.

A remake of an eight-year-old game

The original Hist Maker came out free on Steam in 2018 with 8 levels and a rough interface. This version redraws the interface and the panoramas and grows the game to 69 levels. You don't need to have played the original.

Mods: edit levels, make your own

The game supports mods. Edit existing levels, or build new ones and add them to the level map, with your own elements, formulas and art. They don't have to be about history: a novel, a field of study or a world you made up all work. Publish to the Steam Workshop from inside the game, and play community levels other people have made. Mods use a separate save, so your main progress stays untouched.

What's inside

• 69 eras across six regions
  
• 3,400+ elements and 7,000+ combinations, each with an explanation
  
• About 6,000 sourced quotations
  
• 2,465 in-level achievements that restore each era's panorama
  
• Adaptive hints, plus assists bought with in-game points and switchable at any time
  
• Mod support: edit and create levels, Steam Workshop
  
• English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

To improve the game's visual quality and overall player experience, generative AI was used in the creation of some art assets.