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Guide a gridless medieval settlement as villagers build homes and roads while you manage jobs, trade, production, and monuments.
Released 31 Jan 2025
Shape Homes And Roads
Assemble Grand Monuments
Balance Production Chains
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
Developed by Polymorph Games · Published by Polymorph Games









You guide a medieval settlement from a small village into a larger town. Rather than placing every home or road yourself, you mark areas for housing and let villagers build homes and form paths as they travel.
Assign villagers to jobs, meet their needs, and manage resources through linked production chains. Expand into new land, collect taxes, and trade with neighboring settlements to support your economy and growing population.
Construct custom buildings and monuments from modular parts, and progress through the Labor, Clergy, and Kingdom paths. Choose an Aspiration and difficulty, or build freely in Creative mode; military options include training troops and sending them on missions.
Across the supplied reviews, players often enjoy watching settlements grow without a rigid grid: residents form their own roads and build within designated housing areas. Reviewers also appreciate the freedom to customize buildings and monuments, the calm pace and appealing village atmosphere, and the mix of creative building with resource management. Some also value having different progression paths and ways to tailor a playthrough.




| Platforms | Windows |
|---|---|
| Achievements | 45 |
| Age ratings |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| DLC / extras | 3 listed on Steam |
| Metacritic | 84/100 View on Metacritic |
| Website | Official website |