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Hearth and Hamlet
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-27 · quoted reviews as of 2026-09-25.
“🏡 **An Incremental Game Wearing a City Builder's Clothes — And a Very Good One** Let's get something out of the way first. **Hearth and Hamlet is an incremental game first and a city builder second.** I think that's quite important, because I've seen some players approaching…”
— a player, Steam review · 26 hrs played“A pretty decent incremental game, with decent music, really nice pixel-style graphics and okay story. Takes between 7-12h to complete depending on the difficulty, and I had to go through 2 play throughs to 100% it. For the price I think it was worth it!”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played“I would 100% recommend the game(and willing to change if the game evolves) if: - I would be able to at least have some sort of involvement in how my town looks like - Able to play different styles.(e.g. more economical drriven, military play style, trading and political style or…”
— a player, Steam review · 10 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-08 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 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch 1.0.07
This patch is focused entirely on reducing the game’s memory footprint. Hundreds of changes have cut VRAM usage by about 1.1 GB, which should improve stability, especially on lower-spec hardware.
Patch 1.0.06
Patch 1.0.06 Gameplay Changes • A new tutorial popup has been added to help avoid confusion when building your first ship. Bug Fixes • Fixed a very rare but stubborn bug that could cause the Ashenholt
Patch 1.0.05
Gameplay Changes • One-Way and Stable Portals are now cheaper to purchase. Bug Fixes • One-Way Portals are now activated at the Wizard Academy Shop instead of the Town Square. • Fixed numerous small g
Patch 1.0.04
Bug Fixes • Fixed a rare crash that could occur when an enemy died. • Fixed a rare bug that could cause you to fail to defeat an enemy army for a quest, but proceed as if you succeeded. • Fixed numero
Patch 1.0.03
Gameplay Changes • Blue Arrows have been updated. Shift + Click will now fast travel to the location the blue arrow is pointing to. Blue arrows now ignore regular mouse clicks to prevent accidental fa
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Casual, Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Incremental · City Builder · Base Building · Casual · Management · Idler · Relaxing · Resource Management · Simulation · Building · Economy · Strategy (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , Simplified Chinese * , German * , Japanese * , Russian * , Korean * , Traditional Chinese * * |
| Achievements | 24 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i3 @ 3.2 GHz or AMD equivalent Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 (2 GB VRAM) / AMD Radeon HD 7770 (2 GB VRAM) DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX-compatible