CLERESTORY
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
CLERESTORY is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
Build it as high as the stone allows. CLERESTORY is a free cathedral incremental that plays in your browser. You are the lodge of masons raising a church over generations, bay by bay, from bare ground to a consecrated spire. Height is fame. Fame brings pilgrims, and pilgrims are the money. One tall vault earns about a quarter more than two short ones of the same height, so height pays, and height is the danger.
But a vault pushes its walls outward, and the higher you turn it the harder it pushes. What holds it is the wall's own mass and the buttress you build against it. The panel shows both numbers side by side. If thrust wins, the bay takes strain every season, the cracks run down the stone, and at full strain the vault comes down.
You lose the vault, a quarter of the wall, its glass and any flying buttress; half the fallen stone comes back, and the rest of the church stands. Nothing ever sends you back to the start. The trades you keep making Glass. Glazing a bay lets in light, and light is fame, but opening the wall takes mass out of it. The most beautiful bay is the weakest one. Rebuilding.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
Free · Get it on itch.io. Files, screenshots and the full description are on the store page.