Description

Free Cities: Origins (FCO) is an HTML game built with React, drawing on the well-known Free Cities game by FCAuthor. Where the original leaned toward management gameplay, FCO adds an RPG twist. Players are dropped into a world set years after modern civilization collapsed. The Gregorian calendar is still in use, though its year count was reset sometime in the past. You begin as an unfortunate soul enslaved by Shintani Hiroyuki, a slave owner who, unbeknownst to himself, is fixated on his Japanese heritage and dreams of rebuilding civilizations from the myths of old. The game carries the player from slavery toward a central role in a power struggle between settlements and the last centralized authority, the Trade Union. From there, you can align with a particular faction, a choice that reshapes the entire game world. That world is dynamic and constantly shifting, and many of these changes stay hidden from the player until higher status grants access to the corresponding intel. A dynamic economy underpins it all, running on supply and demand alongside simulated Brownian motion. The final phase of the game, still in development, tasks players with building a settlement from the ground up—the first Free City. The plan calls for complex diplomatic and economic actions against other settlements, plus equally complex interactions with player vassals and subjects.