Foundation

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Foundation is a city builder, medieval and simulation game developed and published by Polymorph Games.
Released on February 01st 2019 is available only on Windows in 24 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Czech, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Finnish, Greek, Japanese, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Traditional Chinese, Korean, Danish, Hungarian and Ukrainian.

It has received 14,939 reviews of which 13,072 were positive and 1,867 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Foundation into these genres:

City Builder Medieval Simulation Strategy Sandbox Resource Management Atmospheric Relaxing Management Economy Building Indie Singleplayer Base-Building Colony Sim Open World Survival RTS Choices Matter Early Access

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Memory: 4 GB RAM

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

This is the game that I always wished existed, and it finally does. I have been trying to design this game, essentially, my whole life. The game where you're a medieval lord overseeing a fief, from the early beginnings of hunting and gathering, all the way to making a glorious castle-covered kingdom. This game is very, very well designed and works smoothly, it's well balanced, the tools make sense, and the mods (which are very easy to acquire since they integrated them into the main menu) make the game truly awesome! I definitely recommend this game, I get lost in it for hours on end.

Aug. 2024

Foundation feels like the perfect City-Builder games Ive ever played, and one of the few that can be played at a relaxing pace. Whereas others like Banished require you to micromanage your peeps and resources, especially in the early game, Foundation lets you play at your own pace, and infact, limits (via Prosperity) how fast you can pace yourself. In addition to being a relaxing game, its also both very beginner-friendly AND tryhard-friendly, because you can either choose to accept the advice or go on your own, and because there are plenty of mods and modding support that allow you to make your game as vanilla or as sophisticated as you like. Also, you can create your own map and decide how user-friendly the terrain is making it either easy or hard to expand your city and build new villages. A functioning town/villages do require a little bit of pre-planning of resource supply chains and city layouts (i.e. placing Residential areas near Resource Extraction areas (so as to keep Commute times low and Production rates high), placing Storage (Granaries/Warehouses) near Resource buidings that either NEED or PRODUCE the resources in them, and placing Residential areas in Desirable areas, away from Resource Extraction areas). Lastly, Foundations has constantly received updates and bugfixes from the Devs, and who have recently announced that the NEXT UPDATE will be the FULL RELEASE of the game, which makes it one of the few City Builders that have not been abandoned by the Dev's while still in ER after only a few years.

Jan. 2024

It's a good medieval city-building/management game and a decent successor to Banished (and games like it). I like the fact that there isn't a grid system and that the villagers make the paths themselves just by walking around. Some of the mechanics are interesting. There's a little bit of replay value if you want to pursue different development tracks. The trade system works pretty well, although it took me a while to figure out how to upgrade my trade routes. Like other games in this genre, it does tend to fizzle out toward the endgame. Once you've built everything there is to build, there doesn't seem to be much reason to keep playing unless you're really interested in earning achievements. If you get your dopamine hits by watching your city develop and expand, while you make small adjustments to guide it on its path, then this is worth trying. I got about 50 hours of game play out of it before I got bored.

Jan. 2024

A breath of fresh air in the City Building genre I have played a variety of City Builders and Colony Sims from both Cities: Skylines, to Banished and Urbek City Builder. Each with their own charm. But there is just something beyond special about this game allowing you to step away from grid-based development and watch your colony grow more organically. This is a City Builder / Colony Sim that I have gone back to time and time again, and will continue to do so. If you are passionate and love Colony Sims, this does not disappoint .

Jan. 2024

Nice Medieval City development game. My favorite aspect is the "organic" growth aspect. You designate residential areas, and build workplaces, but villagers decide where to build their houses and what routes to travel. Over time, these are worn into roads and villagers will continue to follow an existing road over an unblazed trail. I really appreciate the more natural look this gives a town, over similar more grid-based games like Banished or the Anno series. It's improved quite a bit in the past three years since I originally picked up the game. Many gameplay and QoL improvements, an improved UI, and other features have been added. It also has extensive mod support, and many modders have picked up the mantle, deepening the game experience considerably. There are new decorative models, production chain expansions, and system overhauls. Literally hundreds of mods and maps to date, and it's not even in full release. One thing some players may not like is the lack of "tension" in the game. It does not have much of a survival aspect, or much in the way of disasters or setbacks. The biggest concern is keeping your people fed and meeting their other needs to keep them happy and prevent them from leaving your fief. There is no real strategic military aspect either, no crises to defend, just a mission system where you train soldiers and receive rewards when they are victorious. A great game if you enjoy both the development/management aspect of developing an economy, and the creative/aesthetic aspect of making a beautiful and unique town for your people to thrive. Still in early release several years on, but it's honestly a very complete game already.

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33.99€

8.5

13,072

1,867

Online players

929

Developer

Polymorph Games

Publisher

Polymorph Games

Release 01 Feb 2019

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