I built Karshvar to make discovering the world easier for people who love reading history. My biggest difficulty was always geography: from Anatolia to the Caucasus, from the Iranian plateau to Byzantium, I kept losing track of where important events happened.

So I started studying geography, and this game grew out of that learning. It is both a way to test myself and a step toward the offline companion I wanted for exploring the world. I plan to add more historical features over time.

Karshvar takes its name from an ancient Iranian word related to today’s Persian word for country. In Avestan cosmology, the world was described as seven regions.