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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. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-16.
“This a very cute but not so easy game. My first colony died off in less than 3 hours, I love playing this. More importantly, my oldest granddaughter loves playing it with me. That alone makes it a great game for me. I highly recommend it.”
— a player, Steam review · 22 hrs played“I'm only about two hours in. I was a bit anxious due to how everyone was reacting, but the game has a positive rating and it's on sale, so I went for it and got it anyway, anticipating a refund. The art is actually pretty cute. Kinda wonky, mobile-esque looking but I like that.…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Why do I keep getting sucked into this kind of game? The upside of Founders' Fortune is that it has very pretty graphics, a very nice system for building, connecting, and upgrading buildings, and an intuitive interface that won't give you an problems. These things, when you look…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 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 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Founders' Fortune Update 1.3.1 - New Interaction Settings
Hello everyone! After the update in August, i wanted to improve some more things I got feedback on. It took some time, because I got sick in between and then had to focus on the demo launch of our new
Founders' Fortune Update 1.3 - Hobbies, Fixes, and Quality of Life Changes!
Hello everyone! It's time for another Founders' Fortune Update! In the last week, I've secretly been scouring the forum to see what the community's biggest wishes and issues were and went on to fixing
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
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| 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 |
| 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.