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Primitive Society Simulator
A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-02 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-13.
“I played a bit of the tutorial (because strangely it's built separately from a normal game) and a bit of the normal game, and this is essentially "Ancient China Simulator" set in the paleolithic times. You lead your unga bunga group of ten people and build your settlement,…”
— a player, Steam review · 24 hrs played“Quite playable even for early access, really enjoying the chill gameplay Should become a great game once finished Dev is quite active and answering questions Keep up the good work !”
— a player, Steam review · 53 hrs played“I miss an expansion of the old monolith learning system, that aspect seems to have been half abandoned in favour of generic research systems. Also the lack of landscape where the game used to have mountains you had to use and plan around makes the map boring. All the multiple…”
— a player, Steam review · 25 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-07 via SteamCharts.
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Latest official news
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0.3.5_907.1945
Bug Fixes Sold slaves are no longer stuck, and the caravan count no longer displays as negative. When migrating, if no tribesmen are selected, slaves cannot be selected either. Fixed issues with the c
0.3.5_830.1848
Added a note to the room interfaces indicating that "the roof will be auto built together with the room." Fixed some bugs that would trigger red error messages, which did not actually affect gameplay.
0.3.5_817.1746
Bug Fixes Rivers on the large map do not freeze in winter Ghost-faced warriors should have a faster movement speed than other unit types The quality of weapons looted from enemies should not be None
0.3.5_806.1412
Bug fixes Burning corpses causes an error Leftover soldiers were not removed
Added a larger map
Added a larger map. Old saves are compatible and unaffected. The main change is the expanded landmass, featuring additional rivers and fish/lobster resources. The future focus of our game will be on s
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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, Early Access |
| Player tags | City Builder · Sandbox · Early Access · Agriculture · Building · Crafting · Management · War · Survival · Base-Building · Trading · Strategy (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | Simplified Chinese, English, French, Japanese, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese, Russian, German, Italian, Korean |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: 64-bit Windows 10 / 8.1 / 7 with Service Pack 1 Processor: 4 cores Intel | AMD CPU Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 8 GB available space Additional Notes: choose 'Low Quality', lock frame rate to 30