Setting to redefine the city-building genre, Foundation puts the emphasis on the organic aspects of urbanism in the cities of old, powered by Polymorph Games’ proprietary game engine, Hurricane, which allows for full mod support and is optimized for the thousands of moving parts that come with building humongous cities.

This is the start of the middle ages and you have been given a land grant by the King for services rendered to God, King and Country. You are now the Lord of the Village, determined to build a prosperous settlement in this intricate period... will you be a gentle Lord? Or one with ‎a Fist of Steel? Your challenges will be many, but the rewards will be great. In Foundation, your choices are many as you seek to build your legacy!

The game features in-depth resource management akin to the Anno (Dawn of Discovery) series, expertly mixed with classic city-building elements from Settlers, SimCity, and Pharaoh all topped with narrative encounters inspired by Crusader Kings II to create the ultimate medieval ant-farm simulation.

Grow your untapped land into a great sprawling kingdom as you appease different factions of your area, all while listening to a beautiful original soundtrack by the veteran composers who’ve created music for Paradox Interactive titles such as Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV.

After spending over 5 years in Early Access (Steam / GOG), Polymorph Games are excited to reveal the release date for Foundation, along with a playable Foundation Demo!

NEW AND REVAMPED GAMEPLAY

• Choose Your Ruleset: Customize your new games using a selection of adjustable rules, perfect for players who want a more relaxed and creative vibe or those looking to challenge themselves further.
• Revamped Aspirations: Discover new ways to play by selecting an Aspiration, which will challenge you to construct a different type of village. Will you focus on building a prolific priory? Or perhaps a magnificent stronghold to please the King?
• New Villager Residential Tiers: Expand your city further with the highest density and quality residential tiers, allowing for more village customization options.
• Improved Progression System: Unlock content in a smoother and more rewarding way via a refined progression system that adds depth and strategic planning to your city-building journey.
• New Military System: Take on new challenges with a refreshed military system that will have you create Companies that you can send abroad and have them bring back precious resources.
• Heraldry System: Create and customize your village with the new coat of arms editor.
• Paved Roads: Meet the needs of high-tier housing with our new paved road mechanic, tailored to support your most developed areas.
• Improved Walls: Walls are now fully integrated into the building system, some of which will add fortification coverage to your village.
• Enhanced UI and Quality of Life Updates: Benefit from a significantly streamlined user interface, including a massive overhaul to the Monument design experience, implemented to improve gameplay and enhance your city-building efficiency.
• New Onboarding Experience: Whether a new player or a veteran, the updated onboarding quests and visual aids are now easier to follow, helping everyone find a perfect start to their village.

AN ENTIRELY UPDATED ART DIRECTION

• Dynamic Environment Overhaul: Experience Foundation in new ways with enhanced maps, updated map edges, refined lighting, and immersive environmental changes that add more depth to your city-building experience.
• Revamped Art and Assets: Discover updated visuals, including an elaborate new Manor House and the brand new Castle Monument, bringing more detail and realism to your cities.
• New and Improved Animations: Enhanced animations bring your villagers to life, adding even greater immersion.
• Extendable Buildings: Some workplaces, such as the Woodcutter Camp, Warehouse, and Stonemason, can now be extended with new parts.
• All Buildings Have Been Revamped
• Cosmetic Time of Day Switcher: Switch between night and day to see your village come to life during the darker hours.
• Photo Mode: Capture in-game moments with the new photo mode to keep for yourself or share with the community.

And So Much More! This is just the tip of the iceberg. Countless other improvements and surprises await you in the full release!

As Foundation approaches its full release, we are announcing a price increase from December 18, from 29.99 USD to 34.99 USD.

This price increase marks the end of Foundation's Early Access, reflecting years of development and investment into the game, an expanded team, and the need to adapt to inflation. We are committed to providing high-quality updates and support after the release and are excited about the future.

Foundation's Demo Out Now!

We are very excited to present you with a glimpse of the Full Release version of Foundation via a Demo!

This demo allows you to play endlessly with a selection of first-tier content, providing an exclusive preview of certain features, including Housing, Trade, Fortifications, Patrols, Environment overhaul, a vastly improved UI, and many more improvements. This demo will give players a taste of what's to come in the Full Release.

Note that it does not reflect what's in the Early Access version of the game.

Key Features:

• Organic urbanism of the Medieval Era: Create gridless and organically sprawling cities that grow like actual medieval cities.
• Lay the foundation, thrive, and prosper: Weave a complex web of interactions between inhabitants needs and skills, resources availability, extraction, and transformation.
• Unique monument creation tool: Craft and design original free-form monuments like Abbeys, Churches, Lord Mansions, Castles and more, with our proprietary node-based tool.
• Full modding support for the community: Share characters, buildings, quests, and even real topologies through our mod-support tool and be part of the Foundation community.
• Powered by our own Hurricane game engine: Experience a city-building game engineered with a dedicated, tailor-made, in-house engine built with our unique vision in mind.
• Original soundtrack by Paradox veterans: Immerse yourself in our blissful soundtrack by talented composers who worked on titles suche as Crusader Kings II and Europa Universalis IV!

Foundation is coming to PC (Steam / GOG) on January 31, 2025.