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Founders' Fortune
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“"Micromanager's Fortune" - This is a good game with a few flaws that really do the game bad. They'd be so easily fixed as well. Now this game is brutal to start, you really don't have your hand held and I like it. While there's no story generator like in RimWorld but you'll get…”
— a player, Steam review · 39 hrs played“Very vibrant colours, all characters are very personal because they have a name, makes it also more sad when they don't survive. RIP Hermoine/10 <3 never forget”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played“I like this game, it was a good purchase for 4,74€ (18,99€ is a rip-off, sorry - 10€ would be a fair price for what you get), but it appears to have been taken out of early access too early and then later abandoned for the cycle to continue. This game is unfished and development…”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-24 00:52 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Founders' Fortune Update 1.2.11
This update just fixes a couple of flowers that had the wrong size after last week's update. Thanks to @downdruss for the report ! Happy playing!
Founders' Fortune Update 1.2.10
Security Update A security vulnerability has been discovered in the Unity game engine ( info ). A ton of games on Steam are affected, so you might see many games updating lately. This update fixes the
Founders Fortune Update 1.2.9 Fixes
Hello everyone! Long time, no see! This update fixes 3 things: Fixed books created by colonist writers not appearing in your storage Fixed children getting a bad thought about not getting paid enough
Hobbies Update Patch 1.2.8 Released
Hello everyone, another bugfix update incoming: - schedule no longer interferes with people that are locked up or being carried to a bed - fixed an issue with resource modding (.json load order) - for
Hobbies Update Patch 1.2.6 Released
Hello everyone, releasing a balancing and bugfix update today: Balanced garden flowers to be a lot easier to keep alive Balanced risky joke from -10 to -7 when it goes wrong Negative thought from elix
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Indie, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Colony Sim · Base-Building · City Builder · Simulation · Building · Strategy · Survival · Sandbox · Indie · Management · Resource Management · Character Customization (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Workshop · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Turkish, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Italian, Czech, Japanese |
| Achievements | 20 |
| Estimated owners | 50,000 – 100,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://foundersfortune.com |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD 4000 Storage: 500 MB available space Additional Notes: Runs with 35 fps on my test setup with a resolution of 1376x768 and low graphic settings.