Šumadija
Two families arrive at a clearing by the river. Cut wood, gather mushrooms, build houses and carry the village through its winters until it grows into a small town.
No install, no account needed. Works on computers and phones.
The game itself is in Serbian for now. An English version is on the way.
A year has four seasons
Each season lasts six days. Spring and summer are for work and supplies, and winter collects on everything you missed.
Spring
Sowing, building, stockpiling. Spring ends with a fair, so sell what you have spare.
Summer
Fields grow, the mower cuts hay. Plant plenty of cabbage, you will need it in winter. Another fair at the end of summer.
Autumn
Harvest. The cook pickles cabbage, and mushrooms must be gathered before they are gone.
Winter
No mushrooms, and every house burns firewood. Whoever did not stock up freezes.
Wood is everything
The woodcutter fells trees and carries logs to the chopping block. Logs are for building, split wood is for heating. You can float spare logs down the river to sell, but then they are gone for winter.
The forester plants saplings where the forest was cut. Cut everything down and you have no wood, no mushrooms and no healing herbs.
People, not numbers
Every villager has a job you give them: fisher, forager, cook, woodcutter, forester, herbalist, brickmaker, teacher. The hungry work slower, the sick slower still, and the old cannot keep up with the young.
When a house is full, the young look for a new one. If there is none, they leave for good.
From hamlet to small town
The village grows when it has enough people and has survived enough winters. Each level unlocks new buildings.
Zaselak (hamlet)
Two families, two houses and forest all around.
Selo (village)
2 winters and 10 people. Clay for bricks appears, and you can build pens, a school, a mill and a monument.
Veliko selo (large village)
5 winters and 18 people. Horses and a square arrive, and you can found a new village.
Varošica (small town)
10 winters and 30 people, every house made of brick.
Five regions
Once Lipovac becomes a large village, you can found a new village in another region. Villages send goods to each other, and every region has something good and something hard.
The Plain
Ravno Polje · northFertile soil: fields yield double.
Little forest: wood is scarce.
The Mountain
Gornje Selo · westDense forest, logs sell well.
Harsh winters (more firewood), fields yield half.
Šumadija
Lipovac · centre, your first villageA bit of everything: forest, river, meadows.
Nothing special.
The River Island
Ada · south, on the riverTraders come by boat and pay more at the fair.
Little land.
Play wherever suits you
In the browser
Open it and play, on your phone too. The game is saved in the browser on that device.
Play nowWindows soon
A desktop version with everything included, no separate Java install.
Account and cloud saves
In the browser game: continue the same village on your phone or computer. An account is optional. Coming to Android later.
From the blog
Šumadija now runs in your browser
Version 0.01.6 puts the game on game.shumadija.xyz, no install needed. What had to change and how your village is saved now.
Accounts and cloud saves
Since version 0.02.0 the browser game can also save your village on our server, so you can continue on another device. An account is optional.
How to survive your first winter
Firewood, mushrooms and the cook. What to do in spring, summer and autumn so your village reaches the next spring without hunger or frost.