The Empire Before Daybreak hoặc Dawn’s Eve: A Decree Game

EMPIRE BEFORE DAWN You are the ruler of a Victorian-era kingdom on the eve of a new age. Your crown is held up by rival churches, restless factions and cults that never show their faces. You do not click menus. You write decrees in plain words. "Lower the land tax to 10% for two years, make up for it with a trade levy. Encourage births." An AI reads your decree, turns it into policy, and writes the morning newspaper that follows. The numbers are never the AI's: a deterministic simulation computes every treasury figure, mood and consequence, so the story is flavour and the maths is fair. FEATURES - Rule by writing. Free-text decrees in Vietnamese, English or Chinese. - A living daily paper. Each quarter brings an editorial, rumours, factional gossip and cabinet debate. - Rival powers. Landowners, bankers, the army, workers, peasants and the church all want different things, and their grievances move. - Faiths with teeth. Run a state church of Evernight, Storm or Steam, each with its own traits and its own hidden cults to uncover. - Reasonable to learn. A short tutorial walks you through your first quarters. - Save and export your game to a file. HOW THE AI WORKS The game runs fully in your browser. For the best experience, paste your own API key (OpenAI, OpenRouter, Google Gemini, DeepSeek, Groq, Mistral, or any OpenAI-compatible endpoint) under File > Change AI model. Your key stays in your browser, is never saved into a game file, and is sent only to the provider you pick. Each decree and each quarter makes a few API calls billed by your provider. No key? If you run Ollama locally the game can use it as a fallback (you may need to allow this site with OLLAMA_ORIGINS). With no AI at all the game is still playable: use the "Manual decree" option to issue orders from a list. Made with plain HTML, CSS and JavaScript. No account, no tracking, no ads.