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Medieval kingdom builder Earth of Oryn finally arrives in Early Access on January 19

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 13:32:41 +0000

After a Kickstarter success back in 2022, the medieval kingdom builder Earth of Oryn is set to enter Early Access on January 19th.

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City-builder Nova Roma from the devs of Kingdoms and Castles delayed until March

Liam Dawe — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 10:45:04 +0000

Kingdoms and Castles was great, and Nova Roma is shaping up to be a great city-builder but the developers at Lion Shield need more time to get it right.

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Fantasy city-builder with huge battles Songs of Syx gets a major upgrade with a focus on war

Liam Dawe — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 17:35:50 +0000

Rated Overwhelmingly Positive from users on Steam, war is the focus of a major upgrade that just arrived for fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx.

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Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive split with Cities: Skylines going to a new developer

Liam Dawe — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 13:12:18 +0000

Colossal Order and Paradox Interactive have ended their partnership on Cities: Skylines, with it moving onto a new developer.

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The excellent city-builder Timberborn is approaching the 1.0 release

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 10:40:56 +0000

Timberborn is a city-builder full of beavers, in a world where humans are long gone. It's properly great, and now it's finally about to hit the big 1.0.

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Roman city-builder Nova Roma from the devs of Kingdoms & Castles arrives in January

Liam Dawe — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 12:24:38 +0000

From Lion Shield who created the rather great Kingdoms & Castles, their next game Nova Roma has been confirmed for Early Access release on January 22, 2026.

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Surviving Mars: Relaunched arrives November 10 with two expansions planned

Liam Dawe — Thu, 16 Oct 2025 10:50:03 +0000

Paradox Interactive have announced that Surviving Mars: Relaunched is now set to blast off on November 10th with a discount for owners of the original.

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Build a living city on rails in Steel Artery: Train City Builder

Liam Dawe — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:38:22 +0000

Set in a steampunk fantasy world with many different races, Steel Artery: Train City Builder is an interesting looking take on a city-builder.

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Frostpunk 2 gets full controller support and should work better on Steam Deck / SteamOS

Liam Dawe — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:24:31 +0000

11 bit studios have published a major upgrade for Frostpunk 2, adding in full proper controller support with an adjusted UI to match.

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Airborne Empire an open-world city-building RPG gets a Linux / Steam Deck freezing fix

Liam Dawe — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:21:46 +0000

Airborne Empire is an interesting hybrid that mixes city-building, with open-world exploration and the latest update should fix it up on Linux / Steam Deck.

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Paradox announced the updated, expanded, and remastered Surviving Mars: Relaunched

Liam Dawe — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 11:06:30 +0000

Sci-fi fans are eating good lately. Surviving Mars: Relaunched was announced by Paradox Interactive with Haemimont Games back for it.

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You've built cities with people, beavers, on top of giant creatures - and now you'll do it with Crows

Liam Dawe — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 13:03:14 +0000

Crowded was just announced as a new city-builder but it's all about nesting, since your people are Crows.

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Open source re-implementation of Caesar III levels up in the new release

Liam Dawe — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 14:02:33 +0000

They don't make them like they used to right? Caesar III is a classic and you can play it with plenty of enhancements with Julius.

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Frostliner announced recently is basically Snowpiercer as a survival city-builder

Liam Dawe — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 11:34:56 +0000

Okay, now this is cool. Frostliner puts you in charge of a train in this survival city builder on rails that's practically Snowpiercer.

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City-building on the back of a giant creature, The Wandering Village 1.0 is out now

Liam Dawe — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 08:37:48 +0000

The Wandering Village from Stray Fawn Studio is a really unique city-builder that takes place on the back of a giant moving creature.

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POLDERS is a "quintessentially Dutch" city builder inspired by Townscaper

Liam Dawe — Tue, 17 Jun 2025 11:01:27 +0000

Reclaim the land from the sea in POLDERS, what the developer says is a "quintessentially Dutch" city builder inspired by Townscaper.

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Craftlings refreshes the classic Lemmings with mini city-building

Liam Dawe — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 10:49:24 +0000

I had fond memories of playing tons of Lemmings on the Amiga, and now Craftlings is rekindling my love of it but with a city-building twist.

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The Wandering Village 1.0 due in July with a price rise coming real soon

Liam Dawe — Wed, 21 May 2025 11:55:21 +0000

Stray Fawn Studio just announced that The Wandering Village, a city-builder on the back of a giant walking creature, will fully release on July 17th.

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City-building on the back of a huge creature, The Wandering Village gets a big Story Update

Liam Dawe — Tue, 13 May 2025 09:28:51 +0000

The Wandering Village is such a sweet idea for a city-builder, taking place on the back of a huge walking creature. It's in Early Access with Linux / Steam Deck support and a big new update just arrived.

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11 bit studios are remaking the original Frostpunk in Unreal Engine 5 with Frostpunk 1886

Liam Dawe — Thu, 24 Apr 2025 10:12:29 +0000

11 bit studios have announced today that their popular city building survival strategy game Frostpunk from 2018 is getting a remake in Unreal Engine 5.

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Peaceful nature simulation city-builder Of life and Land launches May 16

Liam Dawe — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 15:14:05 +0000

Of life and Land has been in Early Access for just over a year now, and it's about to cross over the finishing line as Metaroot and Kerzoven have announced the 1.0 launch for May 16th.

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Folkways DLC for the excellent village builder dotAGE released - here's a little interview with the developer

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Mar 2025 11:45:39 +0000

dotAGE is a very unique turn-based village builder that blends in roguelike survival elements. It's one that you should definitely add to your list, and a new DLC expansion is out now so I took the chance to speak to the developer a bit.

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Dawnfolk is a must-play if you like chilled unique city-builders

Liam Dawe — Tue, 25 Mar 2025 11:58:49 +0000

If you like your games that try to break the mold, you should definitely check out the recently released Dawnfolk from Darenn Keller.

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Cities: Skylines 10th anniversary will bring updates and DLC for both games

Liam Dawe — Mon, 10 Mar 2025 09:50:57 +0000

Paradox and Colossal Order have announced that to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Cities: Skylines that both the original and sequel are getting updates (and of course more DLC).

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11 bit studios working on getting Frostpunk 2 up to Steam Deck Verified

Liam Dawe — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:51:58 +0000

11 bit studios latest game Frostpunk 2 was recently rated Steam Deck Playable by Valve, with the developer noting they are working towards getting it bumped up to Verified.

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Dwarf Fortress has some exciting plans for the future

Liam Dawe — Thu, 13 Feb 2025 13:36:52 +0000

With Adventure Mode out now, the Dwarf Fortress team are looking ahead and it's sounding quite exciting with some big features coming to the game.

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Strategy business sim Summer Islands a spiritual successor to Holiday Island from 1996 is out now

Liam Dawe — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 12:10:34 +0000

Summer Islands from Marttalin Games is a real-time strategy business simulator and after a few years of Early Access the 1.0 release is out now.

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Minimalist mini-game filled survival city-builder Dawnfolk gets a release date and new demo

Liam Dawe — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 12:06:12 +0000

Dawnfolk from developer Darenn Keller is absolutely lovely, a minimalist survival city-builder with each tile having a little mini-game. Really unique and one you need to keep an eye on.

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Combining exploration, city-building and complex resource management, Scorchlands 1.0 is out now

Liam Dawe — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 14:32:54 +0000

Available now with Native Linux support and full Steam Deck support with the 1.0 release, Scorchlands has left Early Access.

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Relaxing nature-stacking puzzle-building game Preserve launches August 8

Liam Dawe — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 13:21:58 +0000

Preserve from developer Bitmap Galaxy is a relaxing puzzle nature-building game that's going to enter Early Access on August 8th.

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From the dev of Parkitect, Croakwood is a chill town building simulation game about frogs and nature

Liam Dawe — Tue, 09 Jul 2024 10:32:37 +0000

Texel Raptor are moving on from Parkitect now and they recently revealed Croakwood, a relaxed town building simulation game about frogs and nature that looks simply wonderful.

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Lueur and the Dim Settlers renamed Dawnfolk, new trailer shows off accessibility features

Liam Dawe — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 15:00:03 +0000

Dawnfolk (previously called Lueur and the Dim Settlers) is a very promising minimalist survival city-builder, one that suckered me in with the various mini-games in every tile you build and it's looking great.

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Dawnmaker is a turn-based city-building and deck-building game that looks great

Liam Dawe — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:32:47 +0000

Coming from Arpentor Studio, Dawnmaker is a turn-based city building and deckbuilding game that feels like playing a board game.

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City-building puzzler TerraScape gets controller support, Steam Deck support coming

Liam Dawe — Mon, 06 May 2024 11:11:09 +0000

Since I'm a big fan of stuff like Dorfromantik I've been keeping an eye on TerraScape, which just added controller support and they say Steam Deck support is planned too.

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The big hit medieval strategy game Manor Lords works well on Linux

Liam Dawe — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 11:30:43 +0000

Manor Lords is currently another 2024 release smashing through the charts on Steam! Coming from developer Slavic Magic and publisher Hooded Horse, it's certainly impressive.

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Fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx is approaching the end-game

Liam Dawe — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:00:41 +0000

Songs of Syx is approaching the end-game now with a new Beta release out for version 66, which as usual has tons of changes for this massive city-building strategy game.

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Of Life and Land is a promising settlement-building game with rich simulation out on Steam

Liam Dawe — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 15:22:22 +0000

Released into Early Access today is Of Life and Land (prev called Circle of Kerzoven), a settlement-building game from developer Marco Burri made in Godot.

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Explore a solar system in colony-builder Trappist

Liam Dawe — Wed, 13 Mar 2024 13:55:12 +0000

Trappist is a new colony-builder that space sci-fi fans should take a look at, giving you access to a whole solar system to travel around and colonize multiple planets and moons.

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Vertical-building colony sim Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder hits Early Access

Liam Dawe — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 12:05:25 +0000

What seems like a rather interesting and unique take on the colony building sim is Stellar Settlers: Space Base Builder, which gets you to build vertically and it seems pretty fun.

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Of Life and Land settlement-builder releases April 2

Liam Dawe — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 13:38:00 +0000

Need a new city / villager builder and love everything simulated to be a bit more alive? Keep an eye on Of Life and Land that hits Early Access on April 2nd.

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Relaxing settlement builder with simulated citizens Folklands now has a demo

Liam Dawe — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:35:10 +0000

Love your city / village building sims? You should take a little look at Folklands, a relaxing settlement builder with simulated citizens that you need to take care of.

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The Universim god-game city-builder 1.0 is out now

Liam Dawe — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:19:50 +0000

The Universim from Crytivo has finally released, what they call a "new breed of God Game" where you guide a civilisation from nothing up to the stars.

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Against the Storm 1.1 (and later hotfixes) bring various Steam Deck improvements

Liam Dawe — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 14:47:55 +0000

Against the Storm is a dark fantasy city builder where you must rebuild civilization in the face of apocalyptic rains, and the recent 1.0 release came with it being Steam Deck Verified but the developer hasn't stopped making improvements for Steam Deck in version 1.1 out now.

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Huge fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx latest massive update is out

Liam Dawe — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 17:12:47 +0000

After being in Beta since mid-December, the latest big content update to the fantasy city-builder Songs of Syx is out now bringing some sweeping changes.

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dotAGE now Steam Deck Verified and sold over 30K copies

Liam Dawe — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 14:33:04 +0000

Showing that the indie dream for some is alive and well, the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder dotAGE has managed to sell over 30,000 copies in three months. It's also now Steam Deck Verified!

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Dark fantasy city-builder Against the Storm 1.0 out and now Steam Deck Verified

Liam Dawe — Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:30:28 +0000

Against the Storm is a city-builder with a sprinkle of rogue-lite, in a dark fantasy setting and now only has it recently left Early Access to hit 1.0 but it's also now Steam Deck Verified!

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God-sim city-builder The Universim releases 1.0 on January 22, 2024

Liam Dawe — Mon, 18 Dec 2023 13:11:09 +0000

After a good few years in Early Access, The Universim from Crytivo is finally set to hit the big 1.0 with some fun new features.

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Times of Progress is an upcoming city-builder set during the Industrial Revolution

Liam Dawe — Thu, 14 Dec 2023 14:57:50 +0000

City-builder fans may want to keep an eye on this one. Pressing Thumbs Games just revealed Times of Progress, a classic city-builder set during the Industrial Revolution.

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dotAGE adds controller support - working towards Steam Deck Verified

Liam Dawe — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:20:27 +0000

dotAGE is a challenging turn-based village builder, one that will suck away a lot of your time. It's a genuinely great game and it only keeps getting better! Now it has controller support, as the dev works towards being Steam Deck Verified.

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Check out the demo for Planetiles, a chilled city-builder like Dorfromantik

Liam Dawe — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 15:03:26 +0000

Enjoy games like Dorfromantik that have you build tiles and expand while mostly just chilling? Then you're going to want to look at Planetiles.

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