Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts

This one is for people who like to settle in and do something with their hands while still laughing at the court drama. You run your own illumination workshop, there are no timers or pressure, and every commission turns into a small story about nobles and gossip. Why grab it: - The first evenings go to the story mode, where clients keep handing you requests that are odd enough to make you add one more detail to the page - The sandbox is there when you just want to draw: clean parchment, a full asset library and nobody rushing you - The composition screen is simple: pick a parchment, drag elements onto the canvas and try fonts with ornate capitals - Over 1000 images based on real medieval art, so animals, faces and marginalia keep the variety going for a long time You get the game as a Steam gift: we add you as a friend through your quick invite link and send Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts straight to your account. Trumpets in bottoms, horses with human faces, great gilded lettering framed by angels and lilies - nobody has vision like a medieval artist. Hey, that's you! Welcome to your very own illuminated manuscript workshop, the Scriptorium - a cozy, relaxing creative space with no timers and no pressure. - Create your own character in Story Mode, and take commissions from prestigious patrons in a kingdom overflowing with gossip. Illustrate battles and romances, decorate love letters and blackmail notes, design maps, masquerade balls, or, *cough*, bizarre artworks. With every request, you will help shape a royal drama that must be seen to be believed. - Prefer pure creativity? In Sandbox Mode, Scriptorium becomes your medieval “Canva”. Blank parchment, the entire library of medieval assets, and no clients or commissions - just you and your boundless imagination! The composition screen is the creative heart of Scriptorium, where you decide how you want your masterpiece to look. Choose from light and dark parchments in many shapes and sizes, then drag and drop design elements directly onto your canvas. Work with a rich library of 1000+ pictures based on real medieval art - from beasts and bugs to princes and paupers, faces and butts, clothing, expressions, vegetation, oddments and decorative marginalia. Add text using medieval fonts adorned with ornate uppercase letters to complete your illuminated pages. A colorful cast of clients brings you requests of all kinds - grand battles between snails and knights, wholesome scenes of peace, love, and the plague... and those aren't even the weird ones. But the customer is always right! Your job is to be creative and have fun as you fulfill their wishes in your own style. Spread your art across the kingdom and become celebrated by bards and historians for centuries to come. Turn your Scriptorium into the coziest workshop in the kingdom. Spend your earnings to decorate your space with furniture, lighting, tapestries, flowers, windows, columns, and carpets - then make it truly yours with a pet companion by your side, from a purring cat to a loyal dog, or even a tiny dragon. Home is where the art is! Our imaginative players have embraced Scriptorium's potential by creating: - Letters and invitations - Decorated song lyrics and illustrated quotes - Tarot cards - Cute stickers - Coloring pages to print - Desktop wallpapers - Fantasy maps - Props and handouts for tabletop RPG sessions - Medieval recreations of games, movies, and pop culture moments - And memes, of course! Scriptorium is built for sharing. Save your work to your gallery, then export it as a PNG optimized for printing and social sharing. Show it to the world, or keep it forever as your own little masterpiece. We think you'll love Scriptorium if you enjoy… A Little To The Left, Sticky Business, Tiny Glade, Hozy, House Flipper 2, Make Room, Canvas of Kings, Is this seat taken?, Tiny Book Shop, Strange Antiquities, Blender, Wallpaper Engine, Inkulinati, Kingdom Come: Deliverance and Pentiment