Year One · Almanac
AI village simulator
Most simulators ask you to optimise. This one asks you to live there. Creation OS generates a small village — thirty-or-so neighbours, a handful of locations, a working calendar — and lets you settle.
Seasons turn whether you're watching or not
- Spring Sage came up. The bees found the rosemary again.
- Summer Tomatoes split in the heat. Lavender held.
- Autumn Apples are nearly down. Press is in the cellar.
- Winter The bees are quiet. (unwritten)
Time advances when you take a turn. The almanac is real, not narrated. Close the tab in autumn and come back in winter; the apples are pressed, the cellar is full, the snow is heavy on the south road.
People who do specific things
Each villager is generated with a job, a disposition, and a small tangle of relationships. The smith's daughter buys honey rolls on rest-day. The miller has a grudge against the cooper. The lighthouse keeper collects driftwood letters and never reads them.
The narrator is an AI storyteller, but the people are tracked by a real database. Mira's mother's name doesn't evaporate because the chat history rolled over.
What you can do here
Run a shop. Tend a garden. Walk the cliffs. Take in an apprentice. Throw a midwinter feast. Quietly become known. The world holds whatever shape you give it, and keeps going when you don't.
No combat. No urgency. No quest log. The village is the game.
Three starter villages, free to borrow. About three minutes.