The Göktürk: Caravan
VATEC Games · Sep 22, 2026
A Silk Road caravan roguelite set in the seventh-century Göktürk khaganate. Weigh what you can carry against what it is worth, choose your road, and answer to whoever is standing on it. Buy off raiders and it works — until the road learns that you pay.
About The Göktürk: Caravan
The road west is a decision you make forty times You lead a merchant House out of Ötüken, seat of the Göktürk khaganate, in the seventh century. Iron and felt go west. Silk, turquoise and Khotan jade come back — if the caravan does. Every kilo you load is a kilo of something else you left behind. Gold dust is worth nine hundred a kilo and tallow is worth twelve, and the animals do not care which one they are carrying. That single trade-off is the whole game, and it never stops being interesting, because the market at the far end has an opinion of its own. Two ways on, and you take one At every stage the road forks. A short leg through bandit country, or two days more along the river. Water you can carry, or water you have to find. What is on the button is what you get: the distance, the days, whose ground it is, and whether you have walked it before. Two hundred encounters wait on those roads, and they are not riddles with right answers. A flooded ford, a Tang commissioner with a book, a shaman who wants iron for his coat, a blind singer who knows four hundred lines of the Kagan's ancestry and will trade all of them for a place at the fire. Each answer costs something different — d
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