Foundation on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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, simulation and medieval game developed and published by Polymorph Games.
Released on January 31st 2025 is available only on Windows in 17 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, Czech, Thai and Ukrainian.

It has received 19,570 reviews of which 16,721 were positive and 2,849 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.4 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 33.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Foundation into these genres:

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

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System requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10
Processor: Intel Core i5-4460
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: GTX 960 / R9 290 - 3 GB Video Memory
Additional Notes: OpenGL 4.3

User reviews & Ratings

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Jan. 2025

At the time of writing this review, I have 500 hours+ in early access, I have played the full release demo and I a few hours in the full release game. I absolutely recommend this game! It is a fantastic medieval city builder, with very intuitive building, decoration, expanding, resource gathering, trading, upgrading tree, progression with both buildings and higher tiers of citizens, quests and challenging achievements. The way you can basically generate entirely your own maps and change the ruleset for your games for it to suit you, gives you the abilitiy to play the game almost exactly like you want. I also like the military system of the game, where your military is necessary as passive bonuses for your cities, such as patrols. You can also send them on missions “off-screen”, where they can return with amazing loot if successful. The only thing this game is lacking when you compare it to other games, is fighting. There is no fighting on-screen in this game - which I like! (think Manor Lords on “peaceful”). The art style is cozy but less realistic, the design of the buildings and the freedom to create whatever city you want is amazing. The game is also easily mod-able if you want to add even more options! I would say this game beats out any other city builder in this format, including Manor Lords, Ostriv, Banished, Farthest Frontiers or Dawn of Man, just to mention a few. NB! READ THIS! The only thing I dislike about this game is its poor optimization. The game will simply eat your hardware in its current state. Currently, the game will take my GPU to literally 100% utility, like it’s running a benchmark. The game will do the same with your CPU, if that’s your bottleneck for more frames. My CPU at one point actually got hotter running this game than running a Cinebench benchmark. The game luckily has implemented a FPS/Framerate limit. Use this, and set it to 10-20 below what you can run, and it will save your hardware. There isn't a brightness slider in the video options either, and since the game doesn't support HDR, I have to manually increase brightness in the HDR settings when playing this game, then back when playing something else. I hope the devs this year spend most of their time tuning the performance and adding additional options in the graphics menu, as the game itself is a fantastic and complete game (finally)!

Jan. 2025

GRIDLESS BUILDING Not many gridless village builders. This one is one of the best especially with the new customization options and sandbox settings. Generate your own maps as well. TRY IT BEFORE YOU BUY IT Oh and there is a demo. Devs who include demos for their games deserve extra kudos IMO. 8 thumbs up.

Jan. 2025

I've been playing this game for some time now, and what's so fantastic to this game, is that it is relaxing. I have a busy life. But this game takes the edge of, and doesn't interfere with my busy life. I have it on during saturdays and sundays and can occasionally walk away from the PC to do something else, and come back to find my wealth has risen or my construction project is finished. Love the game! Can't wait for the Full release to go live!

Jan. 2025

This is the kind of game where I'll go and sit down and think I might game for an hour but somehow now it's been 3! To me, it's great. I've been playing for several years and enjoying the new learning curve each time there is a big update. I love the anti-grid style of building and letting the villagers make their own paths. I'm having fun with the demo now, can't wait for the full release!

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.

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33.99€

8.4

16,721

2,849

Online players

2,064

Developer

Polymorph Games

Publisher

Polymorph Games

Release 31 Jan 2025

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