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Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.
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.
“It's honestly worth ignoring a lot of the recent negative reviews this chrismas. The game is absolutely by no means perfect by far, but it's still an amazing work of art. The fact that all of this was coded, drawn, and modeled by one person is a pretty substantial undertaking…”
— a player, Steam review · 153 hrs played“It's pretty fun, but ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are those fires brutal. One little spark can start a fire that burns half my village down. But I like it regardless! It feels like a rogue-lite city builder game if that's even a thing? You build a little village, complete the objective, and once…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“The game is great, theres just a very few couple of bugs the Devs need to fix before its playable such as - Unit Collision - Units getting stuck in terrain - Units not building any buildings and refusing to gather resources - Units just standing around the campfire not doing…”
— a player, Steam review · 78 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 2026-10-25.
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.
Patch 1.2.30 (Onboarding Fixes)
I'm really sorry I didn't realize this sooner (I now see many people have been mentioning this!) but there was a bug that made the game UNPLAYABLE for first-time players. It would be fine if you re-op
ShantyTown Release!
Same World, Different Game To those who don't know, I am a solo-developer, and for the past few years I've been working on a type of spin-off of Kainga's world in my new game, ShantyTown. Place items
Happy 3rd Birthday Kainga!
Hello Kainga fans and fanettes! Today marks the 3 year anniversary of Kainga's release on to Steam and the 4 year anniversary from the game's Early Access Release! Did you know there are secret birthd
Patch 1.2.21 (UI Fixes)
it has been fixed! This was exceedingly difficult to track down, as I was one of the few people NOT experiencing it, but I eventually found it and solved it (even if it took more than 2 weeks). If you
Kainga: Update 1.2 "Points of Interest" is HERE!
Hello Kaingans! As a solo developer, it is often hard to choose what to do with the limited time I have, and a lot of that time has been dedicated to my new project, the cozy urban building game Shant
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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, Strategy |
| Player tags | City Builder · Rogue-lite · Indie · Singleplayer · Old School · Strategy · God Game · Stylized · Resource Management · Hand-drawn · 2.5D · Procedural Generation (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Captions available · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish, Russian |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Official site | https://www.silksoftworks.com/kainga |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10 Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support Storage: 2 GB available space Additional Notes: Have Fun!