PYX
A free browser game from Core Systems Asset Factory. Genre: Simulation, Strategy. Free.
PYX is a free browser game, free to play in the browser.
You run the realm's mint for a forty-year reign. You set the weight and the fineness of every penny you strike, and every grain you hold back is profit. The realm notices. What is in it Debasement against trust. A lighter, baser penny makes more coins from every ounce of silver. Then it spreads over a map of market towns, and where light coin circulates, trust drains out of the map.
Prices rise, good coin is hoarded and slips abroad from the ports (Gresham's law, drawn as chests and silver sailing off), and merchants start weighing your pennies and refusing them. Trust is what brings silver to the mint. Clippers at the frontier. Plain-edged coin is shaved at the edges of the realm until a milled-edge press stops them. The Trial of the Pyx.
Every five years the box of sample coins is opened and every issue is assayed against the standard. Failures cost fines and standing. A workshop of nine works: a second press, die engravers, assayers, the milled edge, the great recoinage (call in every coin in the realm and strike it anew, at a price), a bullion contract, a provincial mint, the exchange, and the gold noble. A coin cabinet.
AI disclosure, as the store page states it: AI Assisted, Code, Graphics, Text
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