Scriptorium: Master of Manuscripts

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About the Game 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!

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Developer:
Yaza Games
Publisher:
Mythwright
Release date:
16 April 2026
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Recent Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (158)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (845)

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About the Game

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

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

OS:
Microsoft® Windows® 10
Processor:
Intel i3-4370
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
GTX 750 Ti or similar
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
8 GB available space

recommended*

OS:
Microsoft® Windows® 11
Processor:
Intel i7‑8750H / Ryzen 5‑2600
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
GTX 1070 / Radeon RX 580
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
8 GB available space

User reviews

Brad Lightningpenis
Recommended | 25 May 2026
29.6h played

I haven't been outside in days, and my hands are cramping as I sit hunched over my desk trying to finish my work. I can't remember the last time I ate or slept in a bed. Enough about me, get this game, it rules.

Helpful: 1
Yenni222
Recommended | 31 May 2026
16.7h played

I’m genuinely impressed by this community. While the game wasn’t a perfect fit for me personally, that’s more a reflection of my own creativity than the game itself. If you love art, creativity, and making things your

Helpful: 1
dilfbrigade
Recommended | 24 May 2026
12.9h played

Overall, it's a great little game if you love decorating stuff. I DO recommend this game and i've had a lot of fun playing with it and have made a bunch of fun designs and spent way too long getting locked in on designs

Helpful: 1
Dinosaur_Kath
Recommended | 02 Jun 2026
7.7h played

Discover a neatly woven story set in the medieval times where a lonely scribe (that’s you, btw) runs a sucessful scriptorium! Make true artworks of paper and other items your (sometimes strange) customers bring in and

Helpful: 3
justabananagal
Recommended | 20 May 2026
3.5h played

This is the most delightful lil game. I absolutely love the art style and have gotten lost in creating the most ridiculous drawings per the silly orders I accept. I am having a blast with it and anxiously await some

Helpful: 2
Hades
Recommended | 21 May 2026
18.4h played

I'll be honest, I'm not usually a fan of Shop Simulators. But the art style alone hooked me, not mention the atmosphere and music. If you are a fan of medieval illuminations and want to take it just as seriously as the

Helpful: 1