Dream Engines: Nomad Cities on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a city builder, survival and automation game developed by Suncrash and published by Suncrash and Gamera Games.
Released on May 09th 2024 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 569 reviews of which 426 were positive and 143 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Dream Engines: Nomad Cities into these genres:

City Builder Survival Automation Sandbox Procedural Generation RPG Strategy Simulation Management Base-Building Tower Defense Steampunk Post-apocalyptic Rogue-lite Crafting Resource Management Sci-fi Open World Atmospheric Economy

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
Processor: 3.0 Ghz Dual Core CPU
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB of memory (GTX 660 or better)
DirectX: Version 11

User reviews & Ratings

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Feb. 2025

Game is amazing! It combines my favourite elements: city building, resource automation, and tower defense. You build up through a set of technologies, infrastructure, and advanced powers found only in "ruins" that are present on some maps. Fairly easy to learn, but many advanced strategies you'll need if you want to beat the highest difficulty. You can also play this more like Factorio and build crazy completed cities that efficiently produce advanced resources. This game isn't really a story game, and parts are a bit grindy in the higher-level difficulties. I had a great time playing this, including discovering so many items and different technologies and items to unlock. Strongly recommend.

Oct. 2024

It is interesting. I really like the idea of it, but I will say the endgame is pretty bored and dumb. trying to fly around and hopfully get a random map with an expedition that has a dream core so I can build the shield is pretty boring when i have plenty of resouces to build it. I was hooked for the rest of it though.

June 2024

Automation game with active fighting and strategy for defending in a simplistic TD style. + Flying away makes a soft reset which solves the stiffness of long-running automation bases + Varying gameplay, you can move around fighting by yourself or build solid defenses or focus on resources to get a heads-up in technology + Since v1.00 finally balanced 🙂 - Slightly stretched end-game, but still fun 'cause of all the various resources and choices you can make - Small performance issues, slowing down towards the end-game, but still playable - Few QoL missing, like saving the zoom/rotation of the camera on game start

May 2024

I don't write reviews very often but in my opinion this incredible game is getting some undeserved negative reviews. I find the game to be a perfect mix of "paused" building/planning and real time strategy. Also a good amount of game affecting decisions to be made. Fully customizable keybinding and gameplay options. Also tribe selection to fit your play style. My recommendations if you've played many factory building games before is to rebind rotate building to "R" right away and just open the research men by pushing the button at the top of the screen. Also in gameplay I recommend enabling free camera and pause when switching to build mode automatically. Hope it helps someone.

April 2024

I bounced off of Against the Storm for a number of reasons. I've got nothing against that game at all and I'm not knocking it - it just wasn't a game made for me but this one scratches the very itch I was hoping AtS would. For starters, I feel far more in control of my environment and my own fate. Being able to build defences and kit up my 'hero' to fight the Dream Plagues suits me far better than having to scramble to find resources to perform an action. In this respect, it's a little like They Are Billions except you only have the one bot to move about and fight with. A very important element of the experience is your Bot, Tiny, who can harvest resources himself from the environment just like you do in Factorio as well as explore the map for resource nodes and fight the 'wildlife'. Once found, you can build an extractor and the conveyor belts to transport the raw resources to theire respective processing plants and then on to the city core where they can be used to build better structures or enable research posts to generate research points. Like AtS, it's a different type of colony/city builder from what we're used to - some of the structures you build are temporary and you'll either leave them all behind or destroy them to refund the resources when you move to a new environment but the most important structures will come with you and you can level these up with advanced materials and research. Obviously, with only 13 hours in the game at the time of reviewing, I haven't seen much of the mid game and none of the late game yet but it seems to ramp up the difficulty quite quickly as you progress. While you are probably going to build your food processing chains on the platform, most resources found on the map are limited in quantity and so you can't stay there forever. True, when their limit is reached, they keep producing at a much dimished rate so you can stay for a long time. But the hostility also builds up too and you'll encounter larger and larger waves of enemies the longer you stay. Most low-risk environments have only a couple of resources, wood and stone so if you want the more advanced materials necessary for the more advanced upgrades of your buildings etc, you'll need to go to an environment where these can be harvested. You'll be presented with a number of destinations after you launch your city and you need to choose wisely. Play too safe and you'll lack the important resources needed to progress through the game but it may come at the cost of more aggressive natives. Lastly, it's a very pleasing looking game with an interesting art style and I really like the music too. Also in its favour, the developers made another game I really enjoyed a lot, Judgement Apocalypse Survival (2018) which was a very clever and very focussed variant of Rimworld. They established themselves as trustworthy partners by supporting that game with two excellent, free updates over the years, the most recent being last year (2023). They could have sold this work to us as DLC, and I'd have paid for it because the game was that damned good, but we got the new envirnonments and improvements for free,

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29.99€

7.1

426

143

Online players

Developer

Suncrash

Publisher

Suncrash, Gamera Games

Release 09 May 2024

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