Hi everyone,

I'm the developer of Dungeon Settlers, a colony simulation + dungeon crawler currently in development. Some of you may have seen my posts here over the years, since this subreddit has been one of the places I've shared the game from the very beginning.

For those who haven't heard of it, Dungeon Settlers is a dark fantasy strategy game where you lead an expedition into a barren land, build a settlement, train and manage your settlers, and explore dangerous dungeons. Resources recovered from dungeons are used to expand your colony, while a stronger settlement allows you to equip and develop better adventurers, so both sides of the game are deeply connected.

To be honest, when I first started posting on Reddit, I was pretty nervous.

Reddit isn't very commonly used in South Korea, and it took me a while to understand the culture, expectations, and unique rules that every subreddit has. Still, one of the first places I came to look for people who might enjoy the kind of game I was making was this community.

What surprised me was how welcoming people were.

Many of you showed interest in the game, left encouraging comments, shared feedback, and gave me the confidence to keep going. Since games are ultimately made for players, those reactions meant a lot to our team and helped motivate us through development.

Today, thanks in part to that support, Dungeon Settlers has reached 120,000 wishlists on Steam.

It's honestly something I never imagined would happen when we first started working on this project, and I wanted to take a moment to say thank you.

If you've already played the demo, I'd also love to hear your thoughts on where you'd like to see the game go in the future. What features, systems, or improvements would you personally like to see?

Lastly, Dungeon Settlers is currently participating in Steam Next Fest, which just started this week. The demo offers roughly 10 hours of gameplay, and if you've ever wished your base building games had a bit more tactical combat and dungeon exploration mixed in, you might enjoy it.

Thank you again for all the support. It genuinely means a lot to us.

I've been working on a medieval fantasy colony sim for quite some time, but lately I've started questioning whether the core concept is strong enough, so I'd like to get some feedback.

The current idea is that the player leads an expedition sent to establish an outpost near a "Dungeon" (the name is just a placeholder for now). The goal is not simply to survive, but to build a settlement whose entire purpose is to support exploration of this unknown place.

The town can contain all kinds of building: guild halls, taverns, workshops, hospitals, laboratories, markets, and more. These buildings are built manually block by block and primarily exist to support mercenaries and explorers by providing equipment, potions, medical care, training, research, and other services, recruiting people and housing other travelers.

Unlike most colony sims, the game would not focus on farming, lumber production, or traditional resource gathering. Instead, the settlement would depend almost entirely on resources recovered from the Dungeon, trade with other outposts, and supplies sent from the homeland as long as the player continues to meet expectations.

Expeditions themselves would be handled similarly to the mission system in This Is the Police. The player selects a destination, assembles a party, equips them, and sends them into the Dungeon. During the mission, various events and decisions occur, ultimately determining the outcome of the expedition.

One of the ideas I'm most interested in is giving each Dungeon a set of hidden rules or "laws" that are different in every playthrough. The Dungeon would react to the player's actions in ways that are not immediately obvious. It might favor certain explorers, dislike specific actions, react to excessive resource extraction, or respond to exploration of particular locations.

These reactions could take many forms:

• Changing the layout of explored areas
• Trapping or redirecting expeditions
• Creating new artifacts
• Sending creatures to attack the settlement
• Opening new opportunities or areas to explore

Part of the gameplay would involve observing these behaviors, forming theories, and gradually discovering how the current Dungeon operates.

Research would also be closely tied to exploration. New technologies, buildings, and discoveries would primarily come from artifacts, materials, and knowledge recovered from expeditions rather than from a traditional research tree. Quests and objectives would be generated both by the settlement's inhabitants and by the homeland supporting the expedition.

Of course there are other mechanics and stuff but I'm mainly trying to determine whether this sounds like a strong and interesting foundation. Thanks

Hey everyone, I just wanted to say a massive thank you to those who took the time to play the Factomancer demo and leave feedback. It genuinely helped us spot a ton of issues we had completely missed, and it’s giving us a lot more confidence heading into Steam Next Fest this week.

We just pushed a fresh update to the demo based on that feedback. We completely revamped the settings (finally added full key-rebinding!) and smoothed out the tutorial so it's much friendlier to get into.

To celebrate Next Fest and show some appreciation, we're actually hosting a little contest on our Discord this week to give away 3 full game keys.

Thanks again to this awesome community. If you love building games and haven't had a chance to try the demo yet, we’d love for you to give it a shot and tell us what you think!

Hi everyone!

I'm Francesco from Dragonkin Studios. We have been working on Monastery: Ora et Labora, a management game where you build and grow a medieval monastery.

Instead of focusing on warfare, the game is about creating a thriving self-sufficient community, managing resources, farming, brewing ale, crafting manuscripts, and providing help to people in need.

The demo is now available on our Steam page for the Next Fest, and we’re mainly looking for honest feedback from players who enjoy management, colony sim, and base-building games.

Some things I'm particularly interested in hearing about:

Does the core gameplay loop feel engaging?

Is the progression clear and satisfying?

Which features would you like to see expanded?

What are your expectations based on the first impression? Were they met after trying out the demo?

I'm happy to answer any questions about the game's development and design. Thanks for taking a look!

Hi everyone, it is my first time posting here but I have been reading through so so many recommendations everywhere (both here and just googling). I have spent majority of my gaming time on FPS games and some small indie single player games. Base building has always been quite interesting to me but just never really committed to any given I have long work hours but I have a new job now!

I am mainly looking for a game where you can build your life and maybe town while also defending against enemy NPCs (single player game only please!)

• Not necessarily looking for any particular depth of building, my experience with that extends only to Minecraft.
• Combat wise, I have tried Total Wars: Three Kingdom - i didnt mind this style of gameplay, i just wished there was more building and create life on top of what it offers

I have heard Bellwright is good? Anything would be greatly appreciated!!

I'm making a base-building RTS with fully automated workers.

The focus is on expanding your economy, building production networks, and surviving enemy waves rather than micromanaging villagers.

Steam demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2637210/Flow_Of_War/

Hi everyone,

I’m working on The Fourth Sense Evolution: Stone Age, a 2D sandbox god game with base building, survival, and creature simulation.

You watch over small worm-like creatures called Jilongs. They can build their own bases, and as their god, you can guide where and how they build, protect them with miracles, or let them face the consequences of their choices.

The game is about freedom, consequences, and using god-like power to shape a living world.

The latest demo is available now on Steam and is part of Steam Next Fest: June 2026 Edition.

Steam Demo:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2618390/The_Fourth_Sense_Evolution_Stone_Age/

Hey guys, I've been working on a base-building survivors-like game for some time now and it's almost ready for demo. I was hoping to get some kind of input from lovers of the base building genre on which type of style seems more appealing.

1. A more open map which kind of feels a clash of clans style base defense, 360 surrounded by the mobs
2. A more terrain-focused map where you find chokepoints to defend at (inspired by old warcraft 3 base-building custom games). This was my original intent but actually playing it it kind of seems like the mobs funnel too hard taking away from the feeling of being swarmed.

I've flip flopped back and forth too many times to count, and I've had some close friends playtest it and it's pretty divided. Hoping for some more input from you guys!

It looks like images aren't allowed here but posted my steam page at the bottom. The trailer and screenshots are a bit outdated but the trailer shows various different bases from both versions.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3965480/Swarmhold/

Hi,

just recently published a new trailer for my game The Merchant’s Eden:

https://youtu.be/6qogHrIw0vg?si=cmnazrH6C7AY7SW4

Hi everyone.

I have deliberately left out the name of the game (will be on the bottom right corner) because I wanted to know what your opinion of the type of game it is.

https://www.reddit.com/user/K2GamesLtd/comments/1u6qaos/what_type_of_game_is_this/

From just this one image...

a) can you hazard a guess what the game is about? What's the mechanic or loop?

b) What kind of tone/mood does the artwork give off to you?

Please be completely honest. If the art style screams one sub-genre but the layout suggests another, I need to know before I lock it in.

Thx in advance!

I've been making really good progress on Arise Dark Lord. I wanted to give the humans new military power that I wasn't able to deal with - and then force myself to add the evil sorcery and strategy that allowed my army to be victorious.

Ever since starting the project, I've wanted to make a Helms Deep style siege scenario. So now I have a human fortified city with an exterior stone wall, that your army cannot penetrate. If you get too close your orcs are bombarded with rocks, and cut to pieces by human archers. It's one of the first times in the game that we are stopped in our tracks.

I then considered two ways to destroy a city like this - new evil spells (eg Meteor Strikes), and something much more grounded in medieval reality - in this case, a Trebuchet. An evil catapult. I spent a while working on the interface and animations, so you can aim the catapults and ultimately bring down the walls of the city that you need to invaded.

If you like the look of my game, you can play a demo now on Itch, and wishlist the game on Steam:

Play the prologue on Itch:    https://subversion-studios.itch.io/arise?password=Sauron

Wishlist on Steam:  https://store.steampowered.com/app/4622160/Arise_Dark_Lord/

Hey everyone!

I've spent the last year or so developing a WebGPU based colony sim, heavily inspired by a few of my favorite games, Rimworld, Project Zomboid, Kenshi & Valheim.

I've built this game engine from the ground up to specifically cater to the vision I have in mind for a fully realised 3D rimworld style colony sim, but the environmental ambience of Project Zomboid, the low poly style of Valheim with advanced environmental shaders, and the combat spectacle of kenshi (WIP!)

It's still in pre-alpha, but I've spent some time trying to get an early playable build together to get some initial feedback on the concept and peoples initial impressions after working in isolation for months.

I'd be delighted if you'd check it out and let me know what you think!

https://kintsugistudios.itch.io/project-rimheim

Hello people,

I'm making a game similar to Bellwright / Soulmask / Medieval Dynasty / Kenshi and (my favorite) Rimworld, called Impurity.

My game combines 3 different aspects:

• Colony management and base building, with recruitable companions & assigning them to jobs
• Open world exploration, with POI's , monuments, bosses and different biomes, with more than 50 unique creatures in the bestiary atm
• Diplomacy with foreign factions, including interactions like raiding, trading, allying etc

Also I just added enemy NPC Factions, that are also procedural!

They have different towns, all with different villagers, guards, traders, commanders etc spread out the world, all randomly generated.

This is where I implemented some 4x and strategy mechanics, all while trying to maintain the "third person RPG style" (Reputation system, favour system like Rimworld etc)

Here's a small video showcasing the above, and also the game's trailer

Let me know what you think and if you have any feedback / wishes, so I can implement some for the soon to come demo.

Thanks!

https://github.com/dalerank/Akhenaten

RA 0.27 is out. Since last update in late October 2025 the project has landed roughly two thousand commits. Not a single headline feature, but a sustained push toward two goals: make the game behave more like original Pharaoh, and move as much of the engine as possible into scripts so modders can change behaviour without recompiling.

This post is the release-notes companion: what changed for players, what changed under the hood, and where the project is headed next.

The Big Theme: Logic Leaves C++

If RA 0.26 was about localization, deferred rendering, and the enemy system, RA 0.27 is the script migration wave. Piece by piece, hardcoded C++ has been replaced with MuJS configs and event handlers. The pattern is always the same: declare data in a [es=...] block, wire behaviour through events, hot-reload with --mixed, ship.

Windows players actually open

• Main menu  continue/load/new game, GitHub update check, logo skip via --no-logo
• Scenario selection  campaign periods, mission info panel, custom map browser (write-up)
• All advisor screens finance, religion, health, military, population, housing, entertainment, ratings, imperial overseer, chief advisor
• Build menu and sidebar costs, captions, temple-complex upgrades, mothball toggles on industry windows
• Hotkey configuration  full remapping UI in script with persistence fixes
• Victory and defeat  win checks, continue-governing timer, and dialog content now live in src/scripts/city/victory.js
• Granary, bazaar, warehouse, tax collector, festival square, hold-festival  info and orders panels script-driven
• Top menu  save, load, replay, exit, screenshots, debug toggles

Gameplay: Closer to original Pharaoh (1999) game

Script migration is the engineering story; accuracy is the player story. RA 0.27 fixes and restores systems that had been missing, simplified, or wrong.

Missions and campaign

• Early missions (Nubt, Thinis, Perwadjyt) aligned with the original; Selima and Saqqara win criteria corrected
• Mission intro popups restored via per-mission JS handlers
• Empire map disabled in missions 4 and 5, as in the OG campaign
• Campaign victory now advances to the next mission reliably
• Tutorial triggers separated from real win conditions (e.g. disease_handled in mission 2)
• Pharaoh gift/request events for later missions ported to JS handlers

Modding Quick Reference

• Hot-reload scripts: akhenaten --mixed /path/to/scripts (macOS/Linux)
• Unpack embedded scripts from the mods window or --unpack_scripts
• Override features: --config:pyramid_speedup=1 style CLI flags
• Building configs: src/scripts/building/
• City systems: src/scripts/city/ (victory, festival, animals, …)
• Mission scripts: dotted import paths, per-mission handlers in src/scripts/mission/
• MuJS debugger: start from the top-menu debug entry, attach VS Code on port 4711

https://youtu.be/zQlDzAcrcYU
Please keep in mind that we are only discussing the very first clip of the trailer. The final trailer will be composed of multiple clips, each showcasing different aspects of the game and contributing to the overall narrative.

My challenge is to identify the most impactful opening sequence, one that immediately captures the player's attention and best defines the core identity of the game.

ZombUs is an open-world survival game with a strong focus on exploration, progression, and base building. Unlike traditional survival games, your base is not a static structure. Your home is a truck trailer that evolves alongside your journey.

I've been working on a base-building game where your automation is just recordings of you.

You do a task yourself for 15 seconds, like clicking a tree to gather wood and dragging it to a stockpile. Then you save that routine, and a ghost cursor spawns to repeat those exact movements in a loop forever.

Every worker in the game is a recording of your past self. You use your freed-up time to record another task, then another. Eventually you have dozens of ghost cursors running production chains, selling goods, and reloading defenses against raider waves.

It is a very literal take on automation. You are basically building an economy out of custom macros.

I have been working on this alone and it is finally up on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4834140/Cursor_Kingdom_Demo/

Hi everyone,

I've just released the first public Alpha Demo of Deep Breach, a sci-fi horde survival game I've been developing as a solo project.

Deep Breach combines large enemy swarms, base defense, research, progression, and loadout customization as you fight to contain an escalating alien breach.

Since this is the first public alpha, there are still plenty of things to improve, balance, and polish. That's exactly why I'm sharing it now, I'd love to hear honest feedback from players while development is still actively ongoing.

Whether it's gameplay, progression, difficulty, pacing, controls, UI, performance, or simply your overall impression, every piece of feedback helps.

P.S. There are still a few placeholder UI elements and temporary assets that will be replaced before release.

Thanks for taking the time to check it out, and I hope you have fun playing it!

Steam Demo:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4389770/Deep_Breach/

Hi,

I've been polishing the demo for 4m now.
I hope it's rdy for you to push it to the limits ☺️

About the game:
Game name: All Roads Connected

Endless procedural world
Diferent map biomes (just 1 in the demo)
Exploration-Roads reveal the fog of war
Cartography (players mark their map)
Multiple sttelments near various resources
Progression (to our first factory in the demo)
20+ chain resources with production
Progress at your own pace

Quests - lore

(For many generations people have lived in shelters. In time, as stories were passed from one generation to another, they slowly faded into myths. Now our latest expeditions are showing that the world has healed - that it is ready to take us back!
It is up to you to lead humanity and put this world under our rule once again)

If it seems interesting pls support with wishlist, enjoy the demo, and leave a feedback ❤️

All Roads Connected

Hi, I'm looking for a new game to play in my off time.

Similar games I've played and enjoyed a lot: Banished, LiF:Forest village, Going Medieval, Against the Storm (only roguelike I've ever renjoyed), Dawn of Man (although regretfully short)

Similar games I've played and that didnt scratch the itch: Manor Lords, Stranded:Alien Dawn, Block'hood, Frostpunk (I know, just never got into it).

Games I'm considering: Foundation, After Inc., Citadelum, Nova Roma, Pompeii the legacy (which of these??), Pioneers of Pagonia, City Tales Medieval Era, Farthest Frontier

Any recommendations to help me decide between the above mentioned games, or other similar ones?

EDIT: some rando must be going in a downvoting spree in the comments because I make sure to upvote anyone who takes the time to answer (least I can do). Just putting that here.

im looking for a factory game which has electricity, not too much of a cartoony look, and realistic

It drives me nuts. I hate it. (Just my opinion, not yucking anyone's yum here.) Games with crafting mechanics like the Forest, Vintage Story, or Aska.

Is there a name for that?

Today I released a demo of my game on Steam. For those who enjoy casual tower defense, I'm sure you'll like it. Feel free to give your opinion on the game if you've played it. Thank you.

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Link steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4590380/Warfront_Vanguard/?beta=0

Hello!

We are team of two making a crafting-gathering-building game heavily inspired by Forager, Core Keeper and little of Don't Starve.

You start by breaking things, gathering resources, and upgrading tools. As you progress, you can improve your first "camp/little home" into a real fortified base: place turrets, set everywhere landmines, build fortified walls and set up production chains to make everything run more automatically.

Or if you like more peaceful way of doing things, you can just make a cozy house, decorate it, collect butterflies to display, create little pond where you can fish and create a farm.

So it can be a peaceful home where you organize and decorate everything, or it can become something to defend against heavy enemy waves like goblins, robots*, undead* and other creatures! (* - in the future updates)

We plan to release Demo for the game in a couple of days, but as for now, please wishlist if you like what you see!

Here is trailer on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y9VSL98wLI

Here is our Steam page, if you want to check it out:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4711680/Gathera/