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Kainga: Seeds of Civilization Coming To Steam

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization Coming To Steam

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Publisher Green Man Gaming and developer Erik Rempen are about to bring you Kainga: Seeds of Civilization — a village builder and management sim with a few new twists. Plopped into a random village, you are the Thinker — the one who makes all the decisions. All the villagers will obey you, whether your commands lead them to victory or doom. Each world is procedurally generated with unexpected dangers in each playthrough. Unlike most city-building games of its type, Kainga is not a long-winded experience where you gradually move toward a single goal. In this game, you are presented with a different dilemma every time you turn it on and are given 30 minutes to one hour to solve it. As you learn to survive, your people will adapt and learn new skills — use the “technology tree” to decide what they learn next and where you’d like your society to be eventually. Some of the problems will involve the existence of giant beasts that roam around the area. They’re

Planet Zoo: Africa Pack Adds Four New Animals

Planet Zoo: Africa Pack Adds Four New Animals

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Think you have what it takes to run a zoo? Before you run out and buy one like that family in that movie, you’d better test out your management skills first with Planet Zoo, the PC sim game. The title puts you in charge of a massive zoo with dozens of animals from all over the world, and available expansions add even more exhibits and critters. The latest expansion is the Africa Pack, and it now comes with four more animals than it did before. The new ones are Meerkat, Fennec Fox, African Penguin, and White Rhinoceros. That’s correct, there’s a species of penguin that’s native to Africa — I did not know that before today either. The meerkats and penguins are low-maintenance and don’t require much space to keep happy, but the foxes and especially the rhinos will need a massive enclosure. This latest update also throws in an additional attraction, the Sacred Scarab Beetle exhibit. Below the trailer, we’ve posted Planet Zoo’s tips for taking care of these

Before We Leave Is Coming To Steam

Before We Leave Is Coming To Steam

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Developer Balancing Monkey Games’ civilization-building title Before We Leave has been an Epic Games Store exclusive for almost a year. But the exclusivity period is about over, and it’s headed to Steam! You can expect the game to arrive on the platform this May, precisely one year after its launch on Epic. As far as games with post-apocalyptic premises go, Before We Leave is one of the sunnier depictions out there. Civilization has been wiped out thanks to a cosmic disaster, and it’s your job to rebuild it one step at a time. Build up towns, manage their resources evenly, and you might unearth ancient technology that can help your society leap forward. Once you cities are thriving, expand to other planets and build colonies there. The Steam version of Before We Leave will include all the content that’s been released so far for the Epic version, including: The Kraken Comes – An update bringing submarines, trading ships, the Kraken guardian, and underground shelters. Over & Under – An update

Festival Tycoon Coming In 2021

Festival Tycoon Coming In 2021

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If you were a festival owner, would you be a tycoon right now? Most likely not. But the appeal of video games is the chance to pretend, and with that in mind, we present Festival Tycoon, a building sim game coming soon from indie developer Johannes Gäbler. There’s a lot more involved in organizing a festival than most people realize. You must book talent, set up stages, lay out the venue in a non-confusing manner, provide tasty snacks and plenty of outhouses for when those snacks go wrong…more than we have space or time to list. If your festival is enough of a success, you’ll be able to host more of them, maybe in multiple locations. Want to play a free demo of Festival Tycoon? Good thing Steam Game Festival is underway — you can pick one up here. You’ll be in charge of a music festival in the demo, and given complete freedom over its development. “Players will be able to create, design, and manage their own music festival

Build and Discover: America Coming To PC

Build and Discover: America Coming To PC

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Have you ever looked at American history and wished some parts of it were different? (If you’re a decent human being, then probably.) Now’s your chance to prove you could do better: game studio Angry Bulls is working on Build and Discover: America, a management sim that puts you in charge of this country in its founding years, and lets you make all the decisions regarding its growth and management. Just call yourself Alternate Universe King Washington! You’ll start with the original thirteen colonies, then after the Louisiana Purchase you’ll expand west. Build the White House, the Pentagon, the Statue of Liberty (wait a minute, France built that) and other monuments. Everything is up to you, even the size of America itself (perhaps not all the territories will unite this time). As with most sim games, don’t expect an easy path to whatever it is you want to do…natural disasters, economic recessions and human conflicts will complicate matters every step of the way. Features of the game: – economic and

The Wandering Village Announced For PC

The Wandering Village Announced For PC

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Swiss indie studio Stray Fawn has announced their latest eccentric product. You’ve played city-building management sims before, but have you ever done it on the back of a gigantic creature? That’s the premise behind The Wandering Village, the newly revealed game now running its crowdfunding campaign. The rapid spread of a new plant and its toxic spores have brought about the apocalypse. The only place that seems to be safe is the back of a giant, slow-moving, dinosaur-like monster. So the refugees that made it onto the creature decide to build a community there. You’ll be overseeing their progress and making all their decisions, conducting scouting missions for resources, and most importantly, keeping the big beast you live on happy. Gameplay will change as the creature wanders through the world, passing a variety of different biomes and changing the weather conditions. Fortunately it doesn’t seem to mind that you’re growing plants on its back (thank goodness that works somehow). Do favors for the creature and it will do favors in

Honey, I Joined A Cult Announced For Steam

Honey, I Joined A Cult Announced For Steam

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Do you ever watch news stories about vicious, mindless cults being founded and think “i could totally pull that off”? Then Team17 and Sole Survivor Games’ Honey, I Joined A Cult is for you. It’s a sim game set in the 1970s where your goal is to design, manage and spread your own cult. Design the funky layout of your headquarters and spread recruiters throughout the unsuspecting shaggy, hairy populace. Grow your influence in local society, while keeping an eye out for those who might smell what’s going on and attempt to bust you up. Keep rival egos in check while growing your own…and that gaudy gold-painted Rolls Royce could be yours. Take full control of a funky cult: Recruit cultists and followers to maintain the organisation’s smooth operation; keep them entertained and happy to grow its money and influence Build freaky deaky bases: Build the cult from the ground up and design the layout from ‘hypno chambers’ and bathrooms to monoliths and bedrooms Overcome groovy missions and challenges: Complete

Rising Star 2 Coming To Steam This Fall

Rising Star 2 Coming To Steam This Fall

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In 2007, the original Rising Star — an RPG sim title where you formed a band and worked your way to stardom — was released for PC. It’s been a while since then, but there is finally going to be a sequel….developer Gilligames announced Rising Star 2 today. You are the band leader…hire your other members based on compatibility (the history of any major rock band should tell you why this is important). Create your band’s appearance and work odd jobs to afford your first steps into the rock world. Eventually you’ll start landing gigs, and eventually be discovered, leading to a lucrative contract and plenty of hotels to trash. It’s easier to achieve stardom in a video game. “I am thrilled to bring the Rising Star franchise back to life,” says Todd Gillissie, the founder of Gilligames. “Rising Star 2 is the perfect opportunity for those looking for an in-depth rock band simulator that requires you to build a rock career from scratch.” A dynamic musician attitude system (DMAS)

Mars Horizon Launches Beta April 27

Mars Horizon Launches Beta April 27

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The space strategy sim Mars Horizon will be holding its first public beta next month. The game is being created by Auroch Digital, a development team based in Bristol, UK. Mars Horizon starts out as historical fiction and then gets speculative, imagining what could have happened if the space race progressed past the moon. You’re managing a space agency with the goal of establishing a colony on Mars, but it’s a multi-step, multi-generational process. Design and build the rockets that will get the materials and people to the Moon. Build the colonies and keep them maintained. Once you’ve proven that humans can manage a society on another celestial body, your goal shifts to the big red planet. And when you’re finished on Mars, maybe you can terraform the rest of the solar system! The game uses authentic space science, in cooperation with the European Space Agency. Undertake 14 milestone missions (out of 36 in the full game) Choose to take on approximately 30 optional request missions 3 playable space agencies:

Dice Legacy Announced For PC

Dice Legacy Announced For PC

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Sometimes, managing a city can be a roll of the dice….but never quite so literally as in French publisher Firesquid’s new sim management game, Dice Legacy. You’re in charge of building and maintaining a medieval city, and your citizens are all multicolored dice…or represented by them. You control your people’s decisions by rolling the dice on the map. You’re also sharing this world with several other factions, who you can choose to either befriend or fight. Gather resources, expand your territory and become a mighty civilization….or not, it’s all in how you roll. “Dice Legacy is an incredibly unique concept that blends two of our biggest passions: video games and tabletop games,” says Gian Paolo Vernocchi, co-founder and dreative director of developer DESTINYbit. “We’re thrilled to work with a publisher that believed in our vision from the beginning and allowed us to turn it into a truly one-of-a-kind experience.” Upgrade your Peasant dice into Citizens, Soldiers, Priests or Merchants dice to build a balanced or focused society. Do your best

Not For Broadcast: The Newsroom Simulator

Not For Broadcast: The Newsroom Simulator

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There are a lot of simulation games out there, but have you ever seen a newsroom sim before? Not For Broadcast is the name of a somewhat inaccurate portrayal of the 1980s news media business, from developer NotGames and publisher TinyBuild. Have no video editing experience, you say? Well, neither does the guy you’re playing as, so the game accounts for it. The faceless character you portray works as the janitor, but due to dire circumstances, has been given the master controls. YOU control the news — which could be either good or bad. With the nation sliding into dystopia and rebellion in the air, what the masses see on the tube is going to be what most of them believe. You’ve got a heavy responsibility on your shoulders, but you also have to keep your advertisers pleased and the more prudish couch potatoes from fainting (that’s what the censor button is for). Edit the news with caution, but be quick about it — there is always an omnipresent countdown

Graveyard Keeper Introduces Stranger Sins DLC

Graveyard Keeper Introduces Stranger Sins DLC

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Lazy Bear Games released Graveyard Keeper in August of 2018. Described by them as “the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year,” you must build and manage a graveyard from the middle ages while “facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions.” Gather resources, craft items, make business alliances, and even explore dungeons every now and then. Since its release, the number of things you can do in Graveyard Keeper have been expanded, and now it’s capable of even more: with the Stranger Sins DLC, you can add founding a tavern to your list of tasks. There’s more reason to do this than just for the sake of it: the tavern expands the game’s story by exploring the lives of its NPCs, ill-defined until now: Backstory is not the only thing. Do you remember Lumberjack, Beekeeper, Corey and Tress brothers and other silent NPCs? Almost all of them will find a voice and character in this DLC. In search of mysterious artifacts of antiquity, you will learn more about the

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