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Guide survivors from a resource-scarce start to a growing town by planning production, housing, trade, and defenses.
Released 24 Oct 2022
Reshape Rivers and Lakes
Build Long Production Chains
Trade for Rare Blueprints
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
Developed by Gleamer Studio · Published by Team17, Gleamer Studio
Themes from a helpfulness-selected sample of Steam reviews, not the aggregate Steam score.
Lead a small group of survivors as they establish a new settlement. Choose a randomly generated map for its resources and landmarks, then place buildings and reshape the land to plan the town.
Keep residents housed, fed, warm, healthy, and employed. Assign workers to gather resources, farm, hunt, fish, and operate buildings that turn raw materials into goods through linked production chains.
Research development routes to unlock buildings and abilities, and use trade to access goods and rare blueprints. Seasons and possible natural disasters test the settlement; settings also let players choose whether to face combat and disasters.
Players who enjoy Settlement Survival often praise its extensive buildings and production chains, the steady work of growing and managing a town, and its calm, customizable city-building pace. Some also appreciate the range of progression and the ability to adjust challenges. Reviews are mixed, with recurring criticism of resource balance, unclear research dependencies, and rough or unfinished systems.
Lead your people to their new settlement in this survival city-builder. You will need to provide their shelter, guarantee the food supply, protect against threats of nature, and pay attention to well-being, happiness, education, and employment. Do all of this well, and you might even attract residents from foreign cities!
Choose where to build your settlement based on nearby resources, before determining your perfect layout. How will you build your settlement?
Carve out the land, join rivers, form lakes and use your tools to shape your settlement exactly how you want it.
Build housing, recruit Mayors to determine the morality of your settlement, control crime and ensure your baby-booms don’t negatively impact your resources.
Experience all seasons and heed the early warning signs of disasters. Bunker down and protect your citizens from the elements as well as environmental disasters, or risk losing all that you’ve built.
Offering powerful effects, unique themes and styles, rare blueprints are an opportunity to customize your settlement even further when you’ve mastered the art of trading.
Determine which development routes you will choose, with options that range from trading, education, mining, construction, agriculture, processing, logistics, and liveability. Each route unlocks new buildings and abilities to boost development. and there is no set pattern to the route selection, so you can choose freely and play to your strengths.
With each map randomly generated, right down to its resources and landmarks, every experience is unique and brings with it its own challenges.
Whether exchanging artistic items of high value, unprocessed products or unlocking the mint to create a common currency, trade is key to your populations survival.
Experience a unique game mode designed to challenge even the most experienced player. From the bubonic plague in Europe, to the Easter Island disaster, are you able to overcome its challenges?
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Achievements | 51 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
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