Care & consequence
Read period-framed signs, choose bounded game responses, and carry the outcome into your journal and future choices.
Lancet & Linen / Lanzett & Leinen
A working life in 1382.
A bilingual medieval life and business simulation about a German Bader—a barber-surgeon—building a practice, a household, and a place in the towns of Franconia.
Household & trade
Run a stall or bathhouse, manage supplies and staff, acquire property, and balance everyday costs against larger ambitions.
Town & road
Travel between Franconian towns, meet mentors, face market and road events, and earn civic standing over a multi-act campaign.
Made as a game, not a lesson
Lancet & Linen treats historical material as a setting for player decisions. Medical procedures are period motifs rather than advice or claims of effectiveness. Its in-game lexicon distinguishes attested sources, regional framing, and deliberate game simplifications.
The goal is a legible working life: patients, craft, money, relationships, civic obligations, and the pressure of time all pull on the same day.
Systems at a glance
- Patient encounters, techniques, mentors, and next-day regimens
- Markets, crafting, a Badestube, and multi-city property
- Staff loyalty, training, wages, gifts, courtship, and family
- Travel, seasonal events, civic offices, prestige, and endings
- English and German; touch, keyboard, save/export/import support