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Foundation
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
86% of 23,379 Steam reviews positive
Metacritic 84
At a glance
● Pros
- Steam reviews: "Very Positive" (86%)
- Metacritic critic score 84
- English supported
● Cons
No notable downsides in the data.
Great for
- Discovering distinctive indie games
- Relaxed building, managing and life sims
- Thinking ahead and managing resources
Summarized automatically from Steam reviews, Metacritic, language support, price and spec data.
What players talk about
How often each topic comes up in 57 Steam reviews (English, Korean, Japanese, Chinese) · 89% of them recommend the game
- Graphics👍 16 👎 2
- Difficulty👍 11 👎 2
- Bugs👍 7 👎 3
- Combat & action👍 8 👎 1
- Amount of content👍 6 👎 2
- Performance👍 7
- Atmosphere👍 6
- Grind & repetition👍 4 👎 2
- Controls👍 4 👎 1
- Story👍 5
Counts how many reviews mention each topic, split by whether the review recommends the game.
“Wow! I have been wanting a good Medieval town-builder for a while!”
About the game
Foundation is a gridless medieval city builder where you create modular buildings, shape organic cities and manage its villagers!
BUILD THE ORGANIC MEDIEVAL CITY OF YOUR DREAMS
Foundation combines free-building tools and procedural generation to create the ultimate organic city-building experience.
MANAGE YOUR VILLAGE AND MAKE IT COME TO LIFE
Assign jobs, create production chains, establish trade. In Foundation, your creations come to life!
PLAY AT YOUR PACE, RELAX AND ENJOY THE VIEW!
Foundation offers various difficulty levels, so you can play the way you want! Choose an Aspiration to discover new ways to play, or just play in Creative mode, relax and enjoy the view!
FEATURES
- An advanced gridless City Building experience, with unlimited generated maps and almost no construction constraints.
- Free-building tool: Create modular buildings from individual parts, beautify and transform them into majestic monuments!
- Organic development with our unique Painting tool: Guide your villagers by defining areas for building homes, decide where to pave roads and set patrols, designate forest extraction zones, and more!
- Manage your village: Develop production chains, tax your villagers, trade with neighboring villages, or fight for the King. There are multiple ways to create a successful economy!
- Progress with the three Estates of the Realm: Three distinct progress paths await you: Labor, Clergy or Kingdom. You can either specialize in one or combine all three.
- Tailor your gaming experience: Select an Aspiration, adjust the difficulty level or build without constraints by playing in Creative Mode.
- Full modding integration!
- Foundation Original Soundtrack: Immerse yourself in over 100 minutes of atmospheric medieval music crafted by the award-winning composers at Audinity.
- and much more!
Source: Steam store page (provided by the developer/publisher)
PC requirements
Minimum
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i5-4460 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 960 / R9 290 - 3 GB Video Memory Additional Notes: OpenGL 4.3
Recommended
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i7-6700K Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: RTX 2060
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Updated October 27, 2026 · Source: Steam