Foundation 2025

About

On Steam, 87% of 23,396 player reviews are positive (Very Positive). 1,088 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 3,454 in the last 30 days. It is Playable on Steam Deck.

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. 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.

What is happening now

Foundation is a real-time strategy simulator that launched on PC in January 2025. The game tasks players with building and managing settlements across procedurally generated worlds, blending city-building mechanics with survival elements in a medieval fantasy setting. Recent coverage has been scattered across unrelated topics - most headlines mentioning "foundation" refer to organizations, film initiatives, and AI alliances rather than the game itself. The one substantive piece of gaming coverage concerns Foundation: Galactic Frontier, a mobile title whose advertising campaign has drawn attention for its disconnect from the actual game's premise, ranging from cosy space-living aesthetics to more questionable content choices. Beyond that, press coverage of the RTS remains minimal since its release.