Embark

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

Embark is a colony sim, base-building and strategy game developed and published by Overly Complicated Games.
Released on April 18th 2019 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 376 reviews of which 239 were positive and 137 were negative resulting in a rating of 6.1 out of 10. 😐

The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Embark into these genres:

Colony Sim Base-Building Strategy Indie Simulation Early Access Survival Sandbox Building Crafting Open World Management Singleplayer Moddable 3D Sci-fi Voxel

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows® 7, 64-bit
Processor: Intel CPU Core i3-530 2.93 GHz, AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: 2GB DirectX 11 GPU (Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660, AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870)
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 2 GB available space
Additional Notes: If you have issues with lower spec GPUs on world generation, change "World Generation Quality" in the options menu to Low.

Reviews

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Aug. 2024

Not abandoned, there have been frequent recent updates. A good take on 3D Dwarf Fortress with Z layers.

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24.50€

6.1

239

137

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Developer

Overly Complicated Games

Publisher

Overly Complicated Games

Release 18 Apr 2019

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