Settlements Rising
The Catalyst Crew · 2025 · City Builder, Colony Sim, Strategy, Simulation, Resource Management
PC
Mostly Positive80% · 409
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About Settlements Rising
Settlements Rising is a city-building and colony management simulation game set in medieval times. The game offers extensive depth with dozens of professions and resources available to the player. Each profession features villagers with their own animations and work cycles, creating a living colony experience in the game. It allows for micromanagement through trade, limited resources, production chains, and production data.
Villagers have their own life cycles. They can work in over 35 different professions. Each villager has needs for hunger, energy, health, and warmth. When they're hungry, they eat, and when their inventory runs out of food, they purchase more. When their energy depletes while working or during cold weather, they return home to rest. They are born, grow, receive education, and eventually age and pass away. They gain experience in their jobs. They acquire character traits either from birth or later in life.
At specific intervals, you will be presented with a set of random cards from which you can choose the one that best suits your needs. You can use these enhancement cards according to your requirements. These cards are for single use, but you can choose to save them for future games. In each new game, you can start with a few of the cards you've saved.
In the game, you can earn gold by mining, trading, and conducting raids. Traders visit your village at regular intervals. They buy some resources and sell others. The prices vary from one trader to another, allowing you to buy low and sell high. Additionally, build trading ships and manage your resources by trading with neighboring villages based on the resources they import and export.
Construct exploration ships for exploration missions and send them out. Depending on the mission's risk, you can earn various rewards. These rewards can be gold, resources, or enhancement cards.
As the resources of your village increase, raiders will periodically attack, attempting to plunder your resources. To defend against raiders, build towers and walls. Train villagers as archers or swordsmen, hiring them as military units for a certain salary.
Villagers have their own life cycles. They can work in over 35 different professions. Each villager has needs for hunger, energy, health, and warmth. When they're hungry, they eat, and when their inventory runs out of food, they purchase more. When their energy depletes while working or during cold weather, they return home to rest. They are born, grow, receive education, and eventually age and pass away. They gain experience in their jobs. They acquire character traits either from birth or later in life.At specific intervals, you will be presented with a set of random cards from which you can choose the one that best suits your needs. You can use these enhancement cards according to your requirements. These cards are for single use, but you can choose to save them for future games. In each new game, you can start with a few of the cards you've saved.In the game, you can earn gold by mining, trading, and conducting raids. Traders visit your village at regular intervals. They buy some resources and sell others. The prices vary from one trader to another, allowing you to buy low and sell high. Additionally, build trading ships and manage your resources by trading with neighboring villages based on the resources they import and export.Construct exploration ships for exploration missions and send them out. Depending on the mission's risk, you can earn various rewards. These rewards can be gold, resources, or enhancement cards.
As the resources of your village increase, raiders will periodically attack, attempting to plunder your resources. To defend against raiders, build towers and walls. Train villagers as archers or swordsmen, hiring them as military units for a certain salary.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Abandonware? It's a decently implemented no-frills settlement builder, with just the basics, and that's about it. Nothing groundbreaking. Last tiny patches were released Sept 2025. The previous minor content beta was in March of 2025 and released to production a bit more than a month later, in April 2025. Since then, a possibly interesting pending content update has been seemingly stuck in perpetual beta since February 2026, but without a peep about it since then. Is this ever going to roll out into a production release? Hello? Is anyone there? Crickets.8 found this helpful
this game makes no effort to help guide the player through the opening hours. i'm pretty used to games in this genre, but I struggled to figure out how to solve simple issues. i also was not entirely delighted to discover AI generated content. So, all in all, not for me.
It's very good - this is basically Banished 2, and a full spiritual successor to Banished. However this offers a more 'living' feeling to your settlement, and a deeper supply system. In addition to defenses and combat. Graphically it is very nice, the music is fantastic and relaxing. The procedural seed map system is excellent. There is no tutorial or story here, you get right in and get to work. The environment, predators and vagabonds are your pressure points for your settlement and off you go. Beyond that don't expect anything else - it's Banished 2, pure and simple and it does a fantastic job at being Banished 2. Rank Game Feels Like Banished 1 Banished Pure survival village sim Banished 2 Settlements Rising Modernized Banished Banished 3 Farthest Frontier Expanded/evolved Banished Alternate timeline Manor Lords Cinematic Banished Multiplayer branch Kingdoms Reborn System-heavy Banished Settlements Rising captures the feeling of Banished best. Farthest Frontier probably advances the design the furthest. Manor Lords advances the presentation the furthest. I find it really weird this game has 'mixed' reviews, when it is essentially Banished 2. How can it have mixed reviews? …
Good game for sure. I wish there was a little bit more depth in trade, like having multiple trading docks instead of limiting it to 1. Overall I have enjoyed it a lot, the card system is cool and useful.
Not very exciting. Doesn't really stand out in anything. The cards thing is way too rare to have any real impact on the game feeling
Great game but can't resume play or load saved games. Don't fancy starting again each time!
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