Planned Release Date: Q1 2027

About This Game

A covenant is more than a stronghold. It is a community, a legacy, and a story that unfolds across generations.

Covenantum is a seasonal covenant-management strategy game inspired by Ars Magica, a tabletop role-playing game about powerful magi building communities, pursuing magical knowledge, and navigating the politics and dangers of a mythic medieval Europe. Lead a fledgling community of Magi, Companions and Grogs through decades of magical research, political intrigue, supernatural mysteries and changing relationships.

Every season, decide how your people spend their time. Study ancient texts, invent spells, improve laboratories, secure food and income, gather intelligence, investigate rumours, explore dangerous places or deal with threats closer to home.

BUILD YOUR COVENANT

Manage food, finances, vis, morale, loyalty, security, laboratories, libraries, alliances and other long-term assets as your covenant grows from uncertain beginnings into a major power.

CREATE A SAGA THAT REMEMBERS

Rumours become story leads. Rivals remember grievances. Characters remember support and neglect. Decisions can create new opportunities, stronger relationships, lasting enemies or consequences that return years later.

DEVELOP YOUR CHARACTERS

Magi pursue magical research, apprentices, familiars and Hermetic ambitions. Companions investigate, negotiate and follow personal goals. Grogs keep the covenant fed, defended and functioning through practical skill and specialist work.

NAVIGATE THE ORDER OF HERMES

Build relationships with other covenants, gather intelligence, trade, form alliances and deal with Tribunal politics. Different regions bring their own pressures, rivalries and opportunities.

EXPLORE MYTHIC EUROPE

Discover lost ruins, hidden regios, vis sources, faerie bargains, supernatural threats and forgotten knowledge. Some discoveries become valuable assets. Others become problems that refuse to stay buried.

TWO WAYS TO PLAY

RAW Mode offers the deeper simulation, with additional Hermetic obligations, House progression, Tribunal systems, Twilight and stricter long-term planning.  Strongly aligned with the Ars Magica rules system.

Story Mode keeps the same covenant-management foundation while simplifying some procedural systems so the focus remains on characters, events and the evolving saga.

FEATURES

• Seasonal covenant-management gameplay

• Magi, Companions and Grogs with distinct roles

• Character motivations and long-term relationships

• Persistent story leads, rivalries and consequences

• Laboratory work, spells, apprentices and familiars

• Tribunal politics, diplomacy and rival covenants

• Adventures and supernatural exploration

• Long-term saga ambitions and covenant development

• Two distinct game modes: RAW and Story

Every season costs time. Every decision leaves a memory. Every covenant tells a different story.  What will yours be?

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

AI-enabled software were used for artwork and the trailer, using hand drawn assets and enhancing it with the use of image-editing software to ensure consistent theme and styling. Code development is supported with the use of AI coding assistants to refactor and integrate code written by the developer to speed up delivery. No content is generated in real time during gameplay.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Covenantum deals with themes of folklore and medieval social interaction that might not be suitable or appropriate for young audiences.