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:
Very Positive (71)
All Steam reviews:
Overwhelmingly Positive (965)

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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

NayNeigh
Recommended | 05 Jul 2026
5.4h played

This game scratches the creative itch so phenomenally. At the time of this review I've only done three orders and I am beyond enamored. What a terrific delight of a game. Take your time and let your creativity flow and

Helpful: 1
Lisa Mockingbird
Recommended | 01 Jul 2026
73.2h played

Massively FUN!!! Best game I've played in ages - feels like a puzzle game for Artists. Totally putting my fine arts degree and my wild imagination into each task. The Grandfather Mouse's Tale and The Latrine Family are

Helpful: 3
hsteel
Recommended | 29 Jun 2026
11.8h played

Very clever and fun game with good stories. I really enjoyed it for the first 10 hrs but then the quests started to require too much complexity and I got bored. Still I don't regret buying it and I'm glad to support

Helpful: 0
Teawitched
Recommended | 28 Jun 2026
9.8h played

I've been waiting for this game for years and it did not disappoint. It's fun & relaxing with a lot of wackiness and customisation. It's easy to spend hours in this game. Also love that the creators are against gen AI

Helpful: 0
Lettuce
Recommended | 07 Jul 2026
15.5h played

It's got beautiful art, whimsy, humour. The real masterwork was the illuminated manuscript-making game we played along the way. Scriptorium having both more structured gameplay via the story mode and completely

Helpful: 2
Taehl
Not recommended | 26 Jun 2026
7.5h played

Great concept, but the execution really needs work: Images can only be scaled within a tiny range, meaning you often can't get things the size you need them. Also people keep on requesting a "group" feature to make it

Helpful: 4