Hanok: From Thatch to Palace is out now — 15% off for launch week

Hanok: From Thatch to Palace is now available on Steam. Thank you to everyone who wishlisted and waited.

■ What you do · Guided Build — Start with a three-room thatched cottage and work up through an L-shaped cottage, a "magpie-hole" house, tiled-roof houses and a seowon lecture hall, palace halls and a gate tower, to a two-story pavilion over a pond: 11 buildings, one piece at a time. Every piece shows its real name and one line on why it goes there. · Village Build — Raise a walled village from 210 kinds of pieces: cottages and tiled houses, palace halls and a magistrate's office, streams and bridges, town walls, rice paddies, market stalls and lanterns. Fill it with 40 kinds of people and 8 kinds of animals. Six commissions set goals to build toward. · Free Build — Build your own hanok in the traditional order, or switch the order rules off and build however you like. Move finished houses into your village. · Four times of day: dawn mist, midday, sunset and moonlit night. As it gets dark, light glows through the paper windows. Walk your village as the king in royal robes, step up onto the wooden floors and into the rooms. 11 pieces of traditional Korean music play as you build.

■ Launch discount 15% off until October 6

■ Korean and English · rated for all ages · Windows 10 or later (64-bit)

■ What's next Free updates will add more palace buildings, such as the queen's quarters and the crown prince's residence, and more village life.

The pieces and building order are based on materials from the National Folk Museum of Korea, the Korea Heritage Service and the Encyclopedia of Korean Culture. What was simplified for the game, and what we could not verify, is listed in the in-game "Sources" screen. Code and in-game text were written with an AI assistant under the direction and review of Kunwoo Kim; no AI generation tools were used for art or 3D.

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