Simulation · October 24, 2022
Settlement Survival (2022)
Lead your people to their new settlement in this survival city-builder. You will need to provide their shelter, guarantee the food supply, protect against threats of nature, and pay attention to well-being, happiness, education, and employment. Do all of this well, and you might even attract residents from foreign cities! Choose where to build your settlement based on nearby resources, before determining your perfect layout. How will you build your settlement? Carve out the land, join rivers, form lakes and use your tools to shape your settlement exactly how you want it. Build housing, recruit Mayors to determine the morality of your settlement, control crime and ensure your baby-booms don’t negatively impact your resources. Experience all seasons and heed the early warning signs of disasters. Bunker down and protect your citizens from the elements as well as environmental disasters, or risk losing all that you’ve built. Offering powerful effects, unique themes and styles, rare blueprints are an opportunity to customize your settlement even further when you’ve mastered the art of trading. Determine which development routes you will choose, with options that range from trading, education, mining, construction, agriculture, processing, logistics, and liveability. Each route unlocks new buildings and abilities to boost development. and there is no set pattern to the route selection, so you can choose freely and play to your strengths. With each map randomly generated, right down to its resources and landmarks, every experience is unique and brings with it its own challenges. Whether exchanging artistic items of high value, unprocessed products or unlocking the mint to create a common currency, trade is key to your populations survival. Experience a unique game mode designed to challenge even the most experienced player. From the bubonic plague in Europe, to the Easter Island disaster, are you able to overcome its challenges?
Community Tag Signals
Tag weights reflect how many Steam users voted each descriptor — larger pills = stronger consensus.
- City Builder · 262
- Building · 224
- Colony Sim · 213
- Survival · 206
- Management · 198
- Simulation · 177
- Sandbox · 150
- Exploration · 129
- Strategy · 121
- Resource Management · 119
- Indie · 113
- Base-Building · 113
- Medieval · 93
- Agriculture · 93
- Early Access · 90
Peer Simulation titles
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Position in Simulation
| Metric | This title | Genre position |
|---|---|---|
| Review volume | 7.3k Steam reviews | Top 43% in Simulation |
| Positive rating | 87% positive | Genre average: 79% — this title sits in top 38% |
| Concurrent peak | 111 players | Top 57% in Simulation by live player count |
| Engagement hours | 20 h average | Top 54% for session depth among Simulation |
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Localization Coverage
Interface / Subtitles (12)
- Simplified Chinese
- English
- French
- German
- Russian
- Spanish - Latin America
- Japanese
- Italian
- Polish
- Portuguese - Brazil
- Turkish
- Korean
Reception Metrics
Steam community
87%Very Positive · 7.3k reviews
6.3k positive · 946 negative
Curator recommendations
7.4k
Peak concurrent players
111
Engagement Profile
All-time avg
20h
moderate (15–40 hours)
Median
8h
Typical completion time
2-week avg
2h
Current engagement
Achievements
51
Steam unlocks available
Release & Availability
| Release date | Oct 24, 2022 |
|---|---|
| Developer | Gleamer Studio |
| Publisher | Team17, Gleamer Studio |
| Base price | $6.79 -66% |
| DLC / Add-ons | 2 released |
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
| Estimated owners | 100k–1M |
| External links | [email protected] |
Features & Capabilities
Community
- Steam Achievements
- Steam Workshop
- Steam Cloud
Other
- Single-player
- Family Sharing
Editions & Packages
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