Run a Mediterranean trading house in the Age of Discovery. Hire captains, chart routes, ride a living economy through famine, war and plague — and race six rival houses for the Merchant King's crown. One HTML file. No server. No account.
Local Ollama or a cloud key (Claude, GPT via OpenRouter, Gemini) — your captains come alive: they chat, plan voyages, and haggle with port merchants in real dialogue. A bigger model really is a smarter captain. Keys stay in your browser, never on our servers.
Football-Manager-style management: squads of captains with 1–20 attributes, fatigue rotation, a transfer market, hidden-potential wonderkids and locked legends like Bartolomeu Dias.
Prices come from stock, not dice. Dump a full hold and the price collapses under you. Rumors precede famines; plague closes harbors; rival houses raid the same markets you do.
The Hall of Fame records which brain you won with. Anyone can win with a 27B — beating Plague-era Istanbul with no brain at all is the real flex.
The game auto-detects a local Ollama. If yours isn't found, restart it with browser access enabled:
OLLAMA_ORIGINS=* ollama serve
No Ollama? No problem — captains follow the book, and the game is complete.