Crossings

Pick a historical era, then lead your caravan leg by leg across the route. Each stage you choose a travel pace and may spend coin on supplies, but anachronistic goods are offered as decoys and rejected. Manage your resources across the whole journey to arrive in good standing.

• Choose a pace each leg, trading speed against your supplies
• Buy only era-accurate goods; anachronisms are decoys
• Reach the end of the route to score the run

• Desktop: click to choose an era, set pace, and buy goods
• Phone & tablet: tap the on-screen options, fully touch-friendly

• Multiple historical eras to choose from
• Difficulty settings, plus Daily shared run or endless Practice

• Learn the era's real goods so you can dodge the anachronistic decoys
• A faster pace covers ground but burns supplies quicker, balance it
• Keep a reserve of coin for emergencies later in the route

Crossings teaches period detail by rewarding era-accurate trades on a long journey, so history is learned through the choices you make.

• Skills: period history, daily life of an era, historical decision-making
• Best for: roughly grades 4–9 (ages 9–15)
• For parents & teachers: history learned through the choices of a journey.

Leading a caravan leg by leg, choosing pace and supplies, is the trading-route journey, and the Silk Road is its archetype.

Offering anachronistic goods as decoys is the original test.

The decoys do the teaching. Knowing that a commodity existed is easy; knowing when it became available along a particular route is the actual historical question, and buying something that had not reached that part of the world yet is a mistake you can only make if you never asked.

Crossings is an original journey game that teaches period detail by rewarding era-accurate trades. It's free to play in your browser with no download.

A free, original browser game on PlayPendium. No download, no install.