In development · Single-player real-time strategy
Working title
Lead a tribal household across a living desert.
Water, caravan routes, oaths and settlement shape survival.
War and every deed shape how the household is remembered.
Current build: playable pre-alpha Windows PC skirmish prototype. Visual development shown; not final gameplay.
The game
Saheel Al-Rimal is an Arabic-first, story-driven real-time strategy game set in pre-Islamic Arabia.
Players command people, resources, movement, relationships and war. The full vision combines a planned ten-mission campaign with a replayable systemic skirmish mode, using strategy to tell a human story about obligation, survival and legacy.
Campaign and skirmish
Planned ten-mission campaign
Lead a fictional Bakr ibn Wa’il household on the Iraqi-desert frontier during the final years of Lakhmid rule at al-Hira. The story grows from water, pasture and trade into oaths, deposits, hostages and coalition politics, ending at Dhu Qar.
History does not branch, but choices determine who survives, who trusts the household, what resources arrive and how victory is remembered.
Current playable prototype
Build and move a tribal camp, scout the desert, secure wells, dispatch physical caravans, negotiate obligations, defend routes and choose a strategic direction.
Five gameplay pillars
Every pillar turns the setting into play and makes the player’s decisions legible in the world.
Water, pasture, distance and exposure are active strategic pressures, not background decoration.
Caravans are physical movements to plan, escort, protect, intercept and negotiate around.
The tribal camp can move, while wells and structures create a meaningful pull toward permanence.
Poetry preserves reputation and memory. It reflects what happened; it is culture, not magic.
Trust, obligation and remembered choices affect the people and resources available later.
Visual development
These images communicate character and environmental direction. They are work in progress and do not represent final gameplay.
Arabic-first presentation
Arabic is the game’s source language and canonical performance language.
The full release is planned with Arabic-first interface, text and full Arabic voice coverage, alongside complete English interface, dialogue text and subtitles. English voice-over will be limited.
Poetry remains performed in Arabic in every language mode, supported by literary English subtitles.
العربية ليست طبقة تضاف بعد اكتمال اللعبة، بل هي نقطة البداية.
Historical method
Saheel Al-Rimal is historically grounded rather than presented as a documentary. Major events remain fixed; disputed traditions are identified, and fictional composite characters carry the player’s agency.
The visual world avoids later Islamic architecture, modern national symbols and fantasy caricatures. The aim is a credible setting that supports clear strategy and human drama.
Production
غيث الشهابات · Founder and Managing Director
Ghaith independently financed, designed and built the current playable Windows PC prototype. He leads creative direction, programming, systems design, campaign and mission creation, hands-on development and company management.
Windows PC prototype; console development planned subject to platform approval.
Private presentation
For funding, publishing, platform or professional enquiries, contact Muehldorf Software Development directly.
