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TFC: The Fertile Crescent
Gather resources, build your base, and lead your people to victory in this captivating reimagining of classic RTS, set in the Bronze Age. Secure fertile land, fend off raids, and stockpile food to generate knowledge and unlock powerful village advancements.
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 2026-05-15.
“Eh, it's good I guess. It's like a dumbed down arcade version of AoE, but with a pretty cool and unique take on the food resource. It was kind of fun, but it gets old fairly quick because there's not much variety in playstyles or civilizations (there's only 3 civs), and overall…”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs played“Fun game but please ffs ADD A CONFIRMATION WINDOW TO THE RETURN TO MENU BUTTON!!!”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played“Love it, might be a little bit too simple, but is a fun casual game”
— a player, Steam review · 42 hrs playedAchievement 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.
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Latest official news
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UPDATE 1.3024
Change log 1.3024 Bugs Fixed another problem that in some cases could break the game when nomads spawned in mission 2 and mission 8 (this should be fixed for good now!) Fixed a rare crash that could h
UPDATE 1.3023
We fixed a few community-reported bugs that in rare cases could be detrimental to the game experience, and made some minor improvements that trickled down from working on the sequel. Change log 1.3023
UPDATE 1.3022
Change Log 1.3022 General - Changed order of hotkey groups in hotkey list Localization - Added localization to taking ownership over settlement notification - Added localization to lost ownership over
TFC2 Early Access launches August 18th
We'e thrilled to announce that the sequel The Fertile Crescent 2 - Collapse of the Bronze Age enters Early Access on August 18th, 2026. It will include 10 narrative-driven missions from the brand new
TFC2: Collapse of The Bronze Age — Announced
Hello everyone, Anders and André here from Wield Interactive. The first TFC: The Fertile Crescent started as a hobby project back in 2017. It was our dream to be able to make an RTS game set in the an
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-15.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Action RTS · City Builder · Multiplayer · Strategy · Base-Building · RTS · Real Time Tactics · Isometric · Historical · Co-op · Online Co-Op · Pixel Graphics (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · PvP · Online PvP · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements |
| Languages | English * , French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian * |
| Achievements | 14 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Intel Dual Core or AMD equivalent Memory: 2 GB RAM Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 500 MB available space