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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

Dream Engines: Nomad Cities

A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Released May 9, 2024 Developer Suncrash Publisher Suncrash, Gamirror Games Platforms Windows City BuilderSurvivalAutomationSandboxProcedural Generation
View on Steam ↗ $29.99 (US · as of 2026-09-25)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.

73.1%positive624 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“While the UI leaves much to be desired, and the game overall lacks polish, I find the core gameplay rather engaging. Most importantly, this is a title that tries to do something new with the genre.”

— a player, Steam review · 55 hrs played
Not recommended · 3 found this helpful

“I don't know what it is about this game, but it feels very much like AI slop. The portraits are straight out of an AI image generator, and the combat is extremely basic along with the enemies.”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 via SteamCharts.

516all-time peak
0 250 500 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 216 avg · Jul 2021

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-25.

59achievements
2.1%median completion
0.2%rarest: Economic Victory
29.3% of players 27.5% of players 25.7% of players 25.7% of players 24.7% of players 22.8% of players 20.0% of players 17.3% of players 15.4% of players 10.3% of players 9.7% of players 9.2% of players 8.3% of players 6.7% of players 5.7% of players 5.3% of players 5.3% of players 5.1% of players 4.8% of players 4.4% of players 4.2% of players 3.9% of players 3.7% of players 3.3% of players 3.0% of players 2.9% of players 2.2% of players 2.2% of players 2.1% of players 2.1% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.5% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.3% of players 1.1% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.6% of players 0.6% of players 0.5% of players 0.5% of players 0.4% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 0.2% of players 29.3% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
29.3%Village — Reach a population level of Village.
27.5%Researcher — Build a research lab.
25.7%Defender — Build any turret.
Rarest badges of honor
0.2%Economic Victory — Win the game with "Economic Challenge" difficulty level or higher.
0.2%Ultimate Survivor — Survive 200 cycles in "Dream Plague" difficulty or higher.
0.2%Stranded — Hidden achievement

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Aug 29, 2024
Dream Engines 1.0 Patch 5

Overseers, this update fixes of several issues that were accumulated since the 1.0 release of Dream Engines. Please let us know of any other issues you may have encountered when playing the game. Here

May 23, 2024
Version 1.0 Patch 4

Another patch fixing some issues, including a fix for a rare and elusive bug that managed to survive since the early days of the Early Access. Thank you all for reporting these issues and for your pat

May 17, 2024
Version 1.0 Patch 3

Patch 3 has a few more bug fixes for issues reported by players: Fixed issue in campaign when playing with raids disabled where you couldn't take off after the raid story mission. Fixed description of

May 13, 2024
Update 1.0 Patch 2

A few fixes for issues that players encountered: Items you can't take with you now have a no-fly icon like they were supposed to. Fixed a bug with defense story missions when playing with raids disabl

May 10, 2024
Update 1.0 Patch 1

Fixed a couple of issues that were reported since launch yesterday. Thank you to all the players who reported these issues. Sulfuric Acidstone production recipe was incorrectly assigned to the Wood Wa

Screenshots

Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.

Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.

GenresIndie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy
Player tagsCity Builder · Survival · Automation · Sandbox · Procedural Generation · RPG · Strategy · Simulation · Management · Base Building · Tower Defense · Steampunk (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Trading Cards · Steam Workshop · Custom Volume Controls · Adjustable Difficulty · Save Anytime · Stereo Sound
LanguagesEnglish * , French, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese, Traditional Chinese *
Achievements59
Official sitehttp://www.dream-engines.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit Processor: 3.0 Ghz Dual Core CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB of memory (GTX 660 or better) DirectX: Version 11