Settlements Rising on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Settlements Rising is a city builder, colony sim and strategy game developed and published by The Catalyst Crew.
Released on January 20th 2025 is available only on Windows in 12 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Russian, Portuguese - Brazil and Polish.

It has received 308 reviews of which 261 were positive and 47 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.9 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 18.49€ on Steam.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: AMD Ryzen 3 2.4 GHz or Intel equivalent
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GT 730 2GB | AMD Radeon 550 2GB
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 1 GB available space

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Jan. 2025
was very surprized by this one. feels most polished then most of the EA builder sims i see. i do have some tips for the devs. 1. make nodes respawn around the map randomly. unlimited felt to easy and having the map just die out felt worse. 2. tune down the attacks. i had to just full on cheese the encounters. any attempt to take them head on would ruin hours of game time. make them way easier but mix in archers or a few climbers so they can't just be kited or trapped and killed with a single archer in a tower. 3. earthquake should be more reactible. make the earthquake a lot longer and player has to direct his units to repair house before they fall apart. with fast earthquakes bad RNG just ends a run. same with fires. If i just have enough water wells fire is a AFK non issue. 4. The trading system is amazing!!! but i'd like to see trade offers get bigger in the end game. After i have 50k gold trading for 10 eggs seems below me. 5. make life spans more varied. i found no matter what i tired, i'd get to 200,300,400 pop. like half my pop would just die at the same time from old age. and before i could react i would have like a 100 babies and no one to run my farms, etc and would have to stop all production for years and wait for the next generation to grow up. it felt very unorganic. not sure if this is was on purpose. but it felt broken to me. Keep up the updates you guys have a winning game here. i hope it blows up for you!
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Jan. 2025
A casual little town builder that doesn't bring anything new to the genre or present much challenge, but executes well on the well trodden path of those who came before it. If you are looking for comfortable familiarity with a fresh coat of paint, this is your game. Comparable to Banished or Kingdoms and Castles.
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Jan. 2025
Alot of mechanics from Farthest Frontier are here. Down to building names and descriptions, they are in this game. One of the improvements I'd say are in this game vs. FF or Manor Lords is the depth and control over the villagers. There are enough setting differences to set this game apart from others in terms of replay value but nothing ground breaking found yet. Maybe with a little more time in. I'd recommend as a fun take on RTS city building.
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Nov. 2024
Developers, take note, this is how a smart game UI should be built! Everything is easy to find, One thing that always bothered me with most Village Builders is losing track of which building is what...Not here! Just hover over any building and it's name pops up. Plus, you have a quick panel with a full list of every profession at a single click. Nice quick and useful information fast, things that you need to know to manage your city!! The game has a very soothing pace but challenging enough to keep you hooked. The graphics style is perfect, not too cartoony but not gritty reality either. Here are the STRONG points... * Art style * Progression pace * Smart UI !!! * Just the right amount of control over your pops * In dept resource chains * Configurable difficulty settings (yay) * ANIMATIONS !! very detailed (loved seeing my hunter rope a deer and literally drag in back to storage). LOVE that! * Just hover over buildings to see what they are * Just the right amount of information in panels (no fluff) but very detailed.
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Oct. 2024
I first installed the demo for this months ago and was so impressed, I wishlisted and didn't play again, as I wanted to come in and enjoy it fresh on release. It released yesterday, grabbed it straight away, and for the first time in months I have a game that I can't drag myself away from. It's so good and here's why I think that: The dev is doing this on his own and is very responsive, very active, fixes bugs and gives guidance in Discord, and generally makes you feel like you're in great hands. Graphically I find the game very pleasing, it's not too cartoony and the little people are somewhat realistic, which I like in my sims! I also love that I can scroll in close and watch them working. Some games don't let you get close enough. The balance is great, not too rushed and not too slow, there are lots of parameters available to customise your game experience. The music is pleasant and not too irritating. I usually slap that stuff off straight away but 9 hours in I still have it on now. It's peaceful and calming, as are the ambient sounds during game play. None of the audio detracts from the experience (as an autistic gamer, that's important to me.) Sure there are a few little bugs and glitches still being ironed out, but that's to be expected, and watching the dev work on them in real time is very cool. I'm crap at writing reviews. Buy it and see for yourself, I don't think it will disappoint.
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Settlements Rising
7.9
261
47
Online players
22
Developer
The Catalyst Crew
Publisher
The Catalyst Crew
Release 20 Jan 2025
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