Gord

Gord

Lead the people of the Tribe of the Dawn as they venture deep into forbidden lands. Complete quests that shape their personalities, impact their wellbeing, and decide the fate of their community. Ensure the survival of your populace in a grim fantasy world inspired by Slavic folklore.

Erect palisades, develop structures, and grow your gord from a humble settlement to a formidable fortress. However, expansion won’t be easy! Your population is constantly at risk from enemy tribes, gruesome monsters, and mysterious powers that lurk in the surrounding woods.

Venture outside the walls of your settlement with Gord’s AI-driven quest system, ensuring a huge variety of challenges to take on. The Scenario’s main objectives will guide your gameplay, while versatile side quests and random encounters will send you off into the wilderness to hunt down legendary creatures, uncover secrets about the Ancients, or vanquish a nasty scourge. Expect the unexpected.

Set the stage by choosing from a wide range of Scenario options, and try to emerge victorious. Take it easy or set an impossible challenge; almost anything can be adjusted! Choose from a variety of primary objectives, select the level size, the intensity of raids, the environment you’ll play in, the types of enemies you’ll face, starting resources, and even the severity of weather. Of course, don’t forget the Horrors.

A healthy populace is the key to survival in Gord. Every aspect of your settlers’ lives - from illness and hunger to the death of their kin - can impact each subject’s Sanity and Burden levels. Keep a close eye on them, as once they reach a critical point your subject will suffer from a breakdown or even flee your rule.

Please the Gods with your prayers and they may give you access to their spellcasting abilities. Incantations vary in nature - some are offensive while others are defensive - but they all help to tip the battlefield in your favor. Conceal areas from your enemies, gain control over threatening beasts, or turn an unholy rage against all who dare to oppose you.

The Chronicle explains the history of the Gord universe that blends real-world Slavic mythology with dark fantasy. Pages torn from The Chronicle will be scattered throughout the game’s landscapes, giving dedicated players an additional challenge of discovery. Collecting as many pages as possible will provide insight into the origins of the Gods, ancient factions, and the mystical Whisperers.


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Gord on Steam

Grim Nights 2

Grim Nights 2

the game is good & i love it but its pretty buggy right now but alot of fixes have happen in 1 week with only 1 developer doing it so he deserves a lot of credit & support so join his discord by going to the discussion thing & most of you probably dont know where thats located so all i will say is look carefully & you might just see it by clicking on the game but not play it yet. the developer he needs to make changes like making the visitors spawn more often because im sick of being stuck with a low amount of villagers & i hope the max amount of villager is high enough to my likeing & that zombies & bandits go though some changes like spawning more often & being a bit harder after a while & there need to be more food in game & better stuff to refill energy faster & better & much more

Real player with 72.8 hrs in game


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Grim Nights 2 expands upon the original title with new occupations, resources, art and music. The focus has now shifted towards colony management. After picking your preferred location and biome (currently only 2 available) in a randomized world, you assemble four members to start your new settlement. Their perks and initial stats, which are determined by culture and background, will be instrumental in time and resource management - so pick wisely. You can later hone your settlers' skills, change their primary and secondary occupation and assign them items. They will require rest and food individually, so make sure you build them safe beds and grow and prepare enough grub.

Real player with 46.8 hrs in game

Grim Nights 2 on Steam

Spruce

Spruce

Spruce is a village sim accented with complex magical and crafting systems. Do you have what it takes to build and protect your magical village?

Harvest raw resources

Dig deeper into a mountain to improve your natural defenses, knock down trees for easier access to water. The choices are yours, but so are the consequences.

Expand and Design your village

Place your structures to maximize your production pipeline, then sit back and watch your villagers do all the heavy lifting. Don’t forget to fortify with defensive towers and walls - the monsters of this realm don’t look kindly to strangers.


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Siege of Irdor

Siege of Irdor

Siege of Irdor is a city-builder strategy game set in dark medieval times, where fantasy and reality collide. Build by day and defend the sieges by night, to survive against the armies of darkness.

#### FEATURES

  • Build your fortress

  • Gather and produce resources

  • Manage your people & train the army

  • Survive night sieges

  • Fight in real-time with active pause

  • Discover the story of shadows

  • Deal with random events

  • Adapt to weather and seasons

  • Progress & upgrade technology, weapons & buildings

BUILD YOUR KINGDOM

Design, build and expand your kingdom from a little village into a huge stone castle.

Construct houses, farms, production plants, manufacturing buildings, and other buildings needed to let your kingdom grow. Build walls, towers, gates, and structures to watch for the upcoming enemies.

Collect resources from the environment using various building structures. Upgrade them to make buildings more efficient.

Introduce new decrees and perform research to increase your chances of surviving the coming nightmare. Research can be used to improve units or create traps on the battlefield.

Send out your villagers collect resources (wood, stone, gold, food) which are essential for your kingdom to grow.

PROTECT YOUR VILLAGERS

Create and train your army. To build an experienced army, you need recruits, resources, and time. Equip them with the best weapons you can afford. Use swords, bows, crossbows, pikes, armors, and don’t forget the magic. Unlock better gear by researching new technologies.

Keep your army and settlers morale high, your people happy, healthy, and well-fed. Good town layout, smart task assignment and planning ahead will help you greatly.

Plan ahead as changing weather and seasons will require different solutions. In winter you will have trouble finding food, in rain and fog it will be difficult to spot the enemy, and in summer you will have to face the problem of water shortage.

Send scouts on dangerous missions deep into the Shadow Realm to gain valuable intelligence and find ways to better fight off attackers. Be careful though. If your men stay too long in these tainted, cursed lands they may die!

DISCOVER THE STORY OF SHADOWS

In 1038 a gateway appeared out of nowhere from which all sorts of nightmares started to crawl out. Vast numbers of determined and fearful warriors stood against the army of darkness. They fought and died in huge numbers. The Evil was stopped but… never defeated. Now… they are back.

Discover who or what they are. Look for their weak spots as every shadow has strengths as well as weaknesses. Find the best way to defeat them.

FACE RANDOM EVENT SYSTEM

Each game becomes unique due to random events. Many situations will require your attention. Both those seemingly trivial as well as those affecting the fate of the entire garrison. Take them wisely, as the consequences of some may become apparent only after time. And by then, it may already be too late!

EXPLORE FANTASY WORLD IN LOWPOLY GRAPHICS

Siege of Irdor takes you to a beautiful land where the colorful and peaceful life of happy villagers collides with dark, gloomy, and fearsome shadows coming from the portal.

Prepare to enjoy watching your people work, train, fight or just hang around. Create, explore and unfold the beautiful lands of Irdor in low poly graphics. Nearly all in-game assets (buildings, weapons, villagers, enemies, terrain) are made from scratch to delight the eyes of their rulers.

Siege of Irdor on Steam

Dead of Winter

Dead of Winter

Lead your villagers in a battle for survival against relentless hordes of undead as you gather, build and explore in a post-apocalyptic medieval fantasy world plunged into a seemingly endless winter

Gather what resources you can find before your supplies dwindle and your people starve

Build shelter against the elements and worker buildings to assign tasks to your villagers

Explore your surroundings to find the most defensible locations to build and gather resources in safety

Survive a lack of resources, the unending winter and the relentless hordes of undead

Dead of Winter on Steam

Dungeons and Kingdoms

Dungeons and Kingdoms

The Dwarven Sons of Ivaldi have reclaimed the mountain and begun their quest to forge masterpieces for the Gods.

When you learned of this, you struck out with your family, leaving the safety of the human kingdom to venture into the wilds to settle and establish trade with the Dwarves.

There you begin to grow your community from a tiny village into your own mighty Kingdom.

Assemble a party of heroes and begin your adventure into the unknown seeking treasure, fortune, and fame.

Dungeons and Kingdoms is a combination of city building and small party questing adventures.

Build

  • Modular building - Hundreds of modular building pieces available, build entirely custom structures and layouts piece by piece

  • Build Plans - You act as the build planner by placing all the pieces and build up modular buildings, then begin construction. Those build plans pass to the job system to be constructed by your workers. You can have many build plans in construction at the same time.

  • Full Preview - Build plans allow you to see what your buildings will look like fully connected and rendered in game. Your workers will only act on them when you start construction. You can cancel construction at no cost, so you can attempt endless Build Plans until you like what you see.

  • Edit buildings - Once placed and built, all building pieces can be removed or added allowing no end to how you customize and evolve your world

  • Assign Builder - Assign anyone for basic construction (fire pits, wood fencing etc) up to master builders for epic monuments and castles

  • Decorate - Hundreds of items available to decorate and furnish your kingdom

Blueprints

  • Save Build Plan as Blueprint - Start placing items as a build plan. When you have a collection of pieces you want to re-use (like a small house, or a smith) you can save the current build plan as a Blueprint. This allows you to place the entire Blueprint as a single building piece later, over and over.

  • Everything with Blueprints - You can use the Build Plan feature simply as a way to make many different Blueprints. Make a Build Plan, save as a new Blueprint, then Cancel the original Build Plan.

Tera forming

  • Excavate - Dig trenches and moats

  • Tunnel - Mine deep underground, building networks of mining cart tracks setting up functional production lines

  • Landscaping - Lower, raise or flatten the ground to customize the terrain for your kingdom

Grow Your Kingdom

  • Attract People - Either through increased wealth and prosperity, or great deeds by your heroes

  • Hire Specialists - Send word back to the neighboring kingdoms about specialty positions you need to hire

  • Trading - Negotiate trade with the local Dwarven city. Focus your early growth on what they need, trade for what you need, or what you can trade with other Kingdoms.

Manage Your Kingdom

  • Production - From peasants gathering mushrooms and berries to master masons sculpting great statues, assign your population to jobs to increase their skill.

  • Training - People will learn and improve at whatever job you assign them to, or send them off to other Kingdoms to learn special skills to bring back to your city.

  • Smart AI - While some of your people may not be geniuses, they are smart enough to go to work when something needs to be done. In other words, you don’t have to worry about getting bogged down micro managing everyone. You can be as involved as you want to be, but the more work you put in to managing your Kingdom, the more effective your population will be.

Survive

  • Risk - Outside the safety of city walls, the world is dangerous. From wild animals and other creatures, to bandits, and tribes of Orcs… or worse!

  • Economy and Production - Starting small, balance your growth with the available resources and trading partners to ensure your people survive

  • Defend - The more you have, the more others will want to take it. Building and maintaining defenses may make the difference between life and death.

Questing

  • Heroes - While most of your population will be regular people with jobs, you may attract, hire, or train up legendary heroes. Take your party of heroes on adventures and quests while leaving your kingdom to be run by the local council, or send your heroes out on their own.

  • Encounter Areas - The main map is for building your sprawling kingdom. Learn through rumors about quests where you assemble a party of heroes to adventure out into the wild including dungeons, over-world swamps and forests, crypts and other deadly lairs.

Play as Anyone

  • Perspective - All play modes are in either First or Third person

  • Variety - Your main character is the leader of your town, with the goal of eventually becoming a great ruler. You can also switch between any character in your Kingdom. Each character has their own unique skills and traits, training level, and inventory.

  • Skill - When you directly control a character, you may be able to increase that character’s production beyond their automated skill level by doing jobs manually

  • Automation - Perhaps you leave control of your city to your people and focus on adventures as one of your Kingdoms great heroes.

Combat

  • Weapons - Many different weapons to craft, buy, or loot, including swords, maces, hammers, axes, bows, crossbows, and several specialized weapons with many custom animations and sounds.

  • Custom Smithing - Either attract or train a smith of high enough skill, and build your own custom weapons with unique stats

  • Enemies - From neighboring enemy tribes of Orcs, to many different creatures and monsters ensures a diverse range of combat tactics and experience.

Sandbox Mode

Sandbox mode available - build anything you want without restriction or having to worry about resources, money, or dangers.

Dungeons and Kingdoms on Steam

King’s Reign

King’s Reign

Welcome to King’s Reign:

The Fantasy Kingdom Builder. Are you ready to lead your people to glory? If so, know this - ruling a fantasy kingdom is no easy feat. You will have to consider many factors, and decide the best course of action, so your loyal subjects can stay happy, safe and satisfied. Remember: King’s greatness is measured by the prosperity of his people.

Build your kingdom:

provide housing for your people, and expand your cities using a wide range of buildings with different functions.

Upgrade your buildings:

Make sure to upgrade your buildings whenever you can, as doing so provides better services for your subjects.

Take care of your people:

Observe their needs and make sure they are satisfied. Happy citizen is a hard-working citizen.

Recruit powerful heroes:

If you provide your town with appropriate buildings, you can recruit powerful heroes to your cause.

Use bounties to influence your heroes:

Provide monetary rewards to your heroes for defending your city and order bounties on the most dangerous monsters. But remember! Don’t be stingy. Your heroes won’t risk their lives for breadcrumbs.

Good Luck my King. You’re going to need it. Thalendaar, while beautiful, is full of many dangers and mysteries.

King's Reign on Steam

Age of Darkness: Final Stand

Age of Darkness: Final Stand

This game is simply a amazing and addictive game for RTS and tactical RTS gamers. By default, there is a pause feature allows you to queue unit actions, building construction, and tech research. You start with a small group of units and a hero. From there, you need to explore, expand, and exploit the land in order to survive waves of nightmares that attack from large dark crystals during death night at which you will suffer a malice during the night. If you survive, you may choose a blessing that will be with you the rest of the match. There are five death nights, and a final stand. The final stand on the highest difficulty is 80k enemies that attack from all the dark crystals. You have ranged, melee, and siege units at your disposal, as well as ballista towers, and flame bellow towers. Your economy management consists of farms to produce food for villagers, which in turn are used for housing income, and resource collection building, as well as units. Your units have a tech tree you can utilize to offers advancement as well. A green fog encroaches the land on death nights, which cannot be removed without building vision, or you survive the death night. Enemies vary from crawlers, slow, weak, but can be a challenge in number, to giant hulking crushers with massive hp and damage.

Real player with 336.9 hrs in game

The Gameplay

Picture this scenario:

The days go by while you’re out exploring the map and expanding your base while those blue dots turn into red dots… one… by… one… And on the last day now with only 4 minutes on the clock you realize that the enemies are attacking from the worst possible spot.

You scramble together some defenses and you’re happy with the towers, their placement but you’re a bit short on the wall department but you’ve got 15 units guarding in front so it’s gonna be fine… Right?

Real player with 72.8 hrs in game

Age of Darkness: Final Stand on Steam

SCP Strategy

SCP Strategy

SCP Strategy is a very fun game, I have had an idea similar for awhile, so im very happy to see it a reality! It is fun to create, name, and control your own MTF units, or Foundation sites, and even make your own SCPS! Though right now it is a bit lacking on the content end, as more people discover and buy the game the more progress can be done on it.

I have a few suggestions down below:

GOI’s: GOIS (Groups of Interest) are groups that interact with the Foundation, and Anomalies. Some famous ones include the Chaos Insurgency, Serpents hand, Global Occult Coalition, Unusual Incidents Unit and some more. Perhaps you could even make Custom GOIS with custom behaviors! Having GOIS to compete with would spice up gameplay, Perhaps you would have to send MTF units away from an SCP to intercept a Chaos Insurgent or Serpents hand Convoy from reaching one of your sites, or an MTF Unit to destroy a CI camp. Perhaps you can sell Objects to the GOC, they will pay you, but the Object is permanently destroyed, and you lose Research points. The UIU could provide Units and sites for a rental system, if you got the money. New Research like MTF unit specialization would be cool, you could research tech to make your E-11 better at Combat, or faster at containing. Perhaps you would lose if the Chaos Insurgency or SH got strong enough. Just some fun ideas.

Real player with 15.2 hrs in game

This game is pretty much glorified whack a mole. There’s no real strategy to the game because there’s no real danger. Just pay your employees minimum wage and charge the nations just under max price and you’ll get all the achievements with ease. When orange lights pop up on the map, send a unit to search it. That’s the entirety of the game play.

When I saw SCP attached to the game, I had some hope that there would be something cool about it. Unfortunately the only real link to SCP the game has is that you research found SCP’s to get points and read about the SCP you captured. That’s it. That’s the entire connection. The research is either done automatically on a timer, or you play 1 of 2 minigames that have absolutely nothing to do with SCP (one where you match a set of waves, and another that it just a ripoff of every “click the thing before it touches the object” flash game every beginning programming student has ever turned in as a school project), and don’t enhance the experience at all. If you’re a fan of SCP, you might as well just go read the webpage, because that’s all you’ll do with SCP’s in game.

Real player with 8.3 hrs in game

SCP Strategy on Steam

Black Forest

Black Forest

Gameplay has changed since review was made - will update once further changes have been made to the game.

As a first release, this game is already fun, and will really appeal to people who don’t have a lot of time to play but like to always have “something going” in terms of games running. You can log in, see what happened over the turn change, catch up on any chat going on, and decide on what your villagers will do for the day, and then go on to your next village to manage. So in essence you need to only log in once per 24 hours, although at later stages when all remaining players are active, the next turn will start when all players are ready, meaning much quicker days/turns.

Real player with 83.4 hrs in game

Definitely a base for the game with some really good graphics. I really can’t wait to see where it goes!

That being said it does still seems to have some major balance problems with time like even on the slowest setting you may not be able to check which of your buildings for damage before the day is already over, you have to manually assign each villager manually still for the most part, there isn’t really anything for defense other then build walls until you can’t keep up with the damage being thrown at you and lose, those sort of things you would expect for an early access game.

Real player with 33.9 hrs in game

Black Forest on Steam