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Mountaincore

Mountaincore

Settle an untamed wilderness with the might of Dwarven engineering and thoughtful planning! Design and build your colony towards fame and fortune in a deeply-simulated fantasy world. Chill out in peaceful mode with a bustling settlement, or fight for survival against monsters and invasions!

Released Apr 22, 2025 Developer Rocket Jump Technology Platforms Windows · Mac · Linux StrategySimulationDwarvesColony SimManagement
View on Steam ↗ Free (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.

65.3%positive268 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Mountaincore is the kind of colony game I can lose myself in because there are so many things happening at once. I build a settlement for dwarves in a fantasy wilderness, manage resources, organize production and try to keep everyone alive. I liked the feeling of starting with a…”

— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Mountaincore is a dwarf colony simulator built around the satisfying process of turning a small group of settlers into a functioning settlement. Developed and published by Rocket Jump Technology, it combines construction, resource management, crafting, agriculture, trading,…”

— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Its a bit glitchy in startup and quitting. Have to force quit every time because it just hangs. Has an error for saving the game fairly often and flashes a message on screen. From that point on it wont save and you need to reload the game. The last time this happened, it…”

— a player, Steam review · 33 hrs played
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Latest official news

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Apr 22, 2025
Mountaincore is now free to play and open source!

Mountaincore is now free to play on Steam, and also open-sourced under the permissive MIT license at Github ! Two years ago, we were working with a publisher who were on-board to fund and market what

Jan 12, 2024
King under the Mountain released as open-source, Mountaincore dev on hold

2023 was a tumultuous year for Mountaincore - we were made to keep the community in the dark by a publisher which ultimately backed out, scrambled to release the game according to the plan that had be

Jul 02, 2023
Mountaincore Dev Update 3 (June 2023)

Hi everyone, sorry for a slightly delayed update this month. In fact that’s the main theme of this month’s update unfortunately – the necessity of returning to full-time work has hit me much, much har

Jun 12, 2023
Early Access 1.2.5

- Adjusted chances of creating items from mining (stone is less likely, ore is more likely) and made this moddable - Deconstruction of furniture can now be cancelled - Skeletons will now eventually di

Jun 01, 2023
Early Access 1.2.4

- Fix for liquid hauling jobs not working i.e. filling of water barrel - Improvement to furniture that collects items such as kitchen worktop

Screenshots

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Facts & details

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

GenresIndie, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play
Player tagsStrategy · Simulation · Dwarves · Colony Sim · Management · Moddable · Base Building · Building · Crafting · City Builder · Sandbox · Medieval (Steam store community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, German, Simplified Chinese, Danish, Spanish - Spain, Italian, French
Official sitehttps://github.com/rossturner/mountaincore
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 64-bit Processor: Intel Core2 Duo 2.4Ghz or Higher Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Intel HD Graphics 3000 Storage: 1 GB available space