Changelog

Cutscenes and quality of life

Cutscenes: short scenes for birth, first land, accession, imperial coronation, triumph, a fulfilled dream, great moments of history and death (shorten or turn off in Settings)
Regent: hand over your realm and it is governed for you by an Expand, Build or Peace policy
Fast-forward to the next major event (F), with a summary card of what happened
Things to spend gold on: buy land, guards, children's education, patronage of scholars and artists, monuments
Life dream: choose one at sixteen and be rewarded if you fulfil it
Bloodline points: earned at the end of every life and spent on perks for the next
Daily fate: a challenge in which everyone is born as the same child that day
Marriage market, battle result cards and advance arrows on the map
Save backup code: move your save to another device
Peace treaties in wars led by others no longer stop the game; they appear as news

Share a whole life as an image card (from the obituary screen and the Log tab)
18 achievements: records you collect across many lives
First-life tips: short hints the first time you face a situation
Mobile: a fixed control bar at the bottom, event windows within thumb's reach, and pinned tabs
Arriving via a shared link pre-selects the same era

Rumors (the ? on the map) and exploration: ruins, hermits, monsters, shipwrecks, hidden libraries, miraculous springs and bandit lairs
Journey system: set out on the road yourself and face the events along the way
8 quests: revenge, the treasure map, three clues, the liege's secret letter, pilgrimage, rescuing a brother, alchemy and recovering an heirloom
Secrets: dig up other people's secrets to blackmail, expose or trade — and secrets about yourself you never knew
12 heirlooms: relics handed down through the generations
A 3.5-second grace period after events at high speed, speed buttons inside the event window, and pacing settings
A status bar at the top of the screen (gold, troops, renown, health, stability) and a year progress bar

Event alert modes (Match speed, Pause all, Important only, All automatic) and news cards
To-do alerts, highlighting of attackable lands, help, and a record of past lives
Stability and court nobles, military reforms and tactics, decisive battles
20 Crossroads of Fate and the disposition system

Five eras, a real map of Europe with 168 regions, family trees and heir designation, house traits and legacies