City-builder titles can always surprise with their creativity and gameplay. That's exactly why we've prepared 8 demo versions for you, which you can download today during the Steam Next Fest.
Synergy
Synergy is a city-builder game where humanity must survive in a strange and hostile world. Build a city respecting the ecosystem and explore and analyze your environment, while taking care of the needs of your citizens. Analyze the plants and other natural elements of the region and add the information to your knowledge book to successfully survive.
Build nine districts with unique features around different squares by cleverly placing your buildings. Take advantage of powerful district-specific bonuses to boost your city's development, and meet the needs of your citizens and prosper by providing the most satisfying accommodation options.
Exploration is an important vector of progress in the game. Explore increasingly remote regions to discover new destinations, meet other survivors and convince them to join your city, find tablets of invaluable knowledge, and bring new plant species to introduce into your environment.
SUMMERHOUSE
Summerhouse is a 2D game in which you build and decorate houses, developed by solo developer Friedemann, and promises a visually appealing style with relaxing gameplay and soothing music.
In it, you will create a neighborhood of small homes in different environments such as the area near the sea, the mountains or the city district. There are no rules or challenges; you can't win or lose, but that's why you can relax in its atmosphere and build to your heart's content.
This won't just be a simple installation of windows or walls, as Summerhouse requires you to add details such as mailboxes, drying racks, banners and the like. Although there is no option to experiment with the interior, you may be most attracted to the 2D and pixelated aesthetics that adorn this game.
Minami Lane
Minami Lane is a cozy and management game set on a street inspired by Japanese style. Create and manage your own street, make sure everyone is happy and watch the locals go about their lives. Build homes to add locals to your street, then improve their fortunes by decorating every inch and building a variety of shops and attractions. These include ramen restaurants, boba tea cafes, bookstores, and more, each with unique inventory and effects.
Complete missions to unlock new levels with more buildings, types of villagers and other surprises. The missions presented by this game require you to plan tactically every day, and use random events to your advantage to fulfill multiple objectives. Sandbox gameplay focuses on creativity and relaxation, allowing you to immerse yourself in a calm, pleasant, stress-free world.
Thrive: Heavy Lies The Crown
Thrive: Heavy Lies the Crown is a medieval city-builder and fantasy game with real-time combat and decision-making mechanics. As the new ruler, you and the surviving villagers of Aldamora travel to the mysterious land of Nysamora in search of a new home. Together you will work to establish a great kingdom and shape your own legacy.
Assign tasks to your subjects: collect resources, build structures, explore the wilderness, and secure your kingdom's reputation through trade or the sword. As your settlement and influence grows, you'll have to make tough decisions that can permanently change the lives of your people, your settlement, and the world around you.
Go on an adventure alone or with four other players. Lay siege to castles, pillage trade routes, or face the fantastical creatures of Waelgrim in intense combat situations, either co-op or against other players or AI. But be warned because soldiers need food, water to fight, and the costs of war can weigh heavily on your kingdom.
United Penguin Kingdom
Build your settlement and meet the needs of your penguins with better food, stylish decorations, entertainment areas, high-tech refrigerators and luxury houses while facing whales and seals. Place new power generators to activate more houses, jobs and refrigerators and build jobs to produce materials, food and medicine. In addition, you need to build defense towers because the whales attack your buildings and try to destroy them, while the seals come to the food storage to steal it.
Build several fun areas and let your penguins enjoy skating in ice rinks, watching movies in cinemas, playing video games in arcades, racing on go-kart tracks, working out in gyms and fight clubs, visiting museums, practicing yoga, etc. Don't forget to focus on spirituality of your penguins and increase their luck with booths and wishing wells. Commit to education and provide enough space for your penguins in schools, high schools and libraries.
Reputation points represent the overall rating of your settlement in the kingdom. Complete requests, improve your reputation and encourage your penguins to progress from village to kingdom. Become a king to explore new areas, find new settlements and decide whether to join the kingdom.
Folklands
In Falkland, a relaxing city-builder with simulated citizens, you'll see that great stories can come from humble beginnings. Harvest resources, manage food supplies and farm to make sure your citizens are happy, busy and safe. At the same time, establish trade routes to obtain resources you lack or build production chains for your own production.
Face challenges like fire, disease and crime in your growing settlement and always remember that challenges are often in your path. Adjust your strategy and optimize production to thrive in the procedurally generated world.
Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a colony building simulator and city-builder set in the Middle Ages. Gather resources through hunting and fishing to ensure the survival of your villagers, then craft equipment from those resources for the safety and well-being of your people. In addition, you will be able to import necessary products and export surplus, and build ships for trade and research, accumulating wealth.
The game brings challenges like diseases, natural disasters, predators and robbers. With over 40 professions for your villagers and over 50 resources to collect or craft, the possibilities are vast. At certain intervals, you will be shown a set of random cards from which you can choose the one that best suits your needs. These cards are for single use, and you can, for example, save them for future games. In each new game, you can start with a few cards that you have saved.
Orrstead
Orrstead is a relaxing city-builder game that combines resource management and progression mechanics. Unlock technologies, complete quests and adapt to changing seasons.
Start by building houses, farms and markets to provide food and happiness for your citizens, allowing your city to grow. Orrstead borrows mechanics from step-up games like Cookie Clicker, where each building has an exponentially increasing cost. Overcome these costs by unlocking new technologies that introduce new production chains, synergies and depth of mechanics.
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