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Forebearers

This city-building strategy game puts you as the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland. Now you must rebuild and defend your tribe from both the elements and your old enemies.

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Developer
Sandspire Interactive
Publisher
Sandspire Interactive
Release
April 12, 2019
7 years and 114 days ago
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Mixed109 reviews47.7%

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About the Game

Forebearers - Hearth & Home is a city-building survival strategy game. As the chieftain of a tribe driven away from their homeland you will construct a settlement from the ground up while keeping the harsh conditions of nature at bay. Collect resources and expand your village in order to create a new prosperous and lasting society.

Explore

Explore strange new lands for resources and areas to settle.

Build

Start from nothing but a few refugees and some salvaged supplies and grow to a prosperous new society.

Survive

Keep your villagers alive throughout harsh environments and disaster and protect them against threatening enemies.

Features

  • Explore and settle three different worlds with varying resource and weather conditions and different challenges.
  • Find and collect basic resources like food and water to reach sustainable conditions.
  • Establish production chains of several raw and refined resources.
  • Locate refugees to increase your village's population.
  • Expand to new areas with new towns and outposts and establish supply routes between them.
  • Survive disasters such as storms, fire and diseases.
  • Fortify and defend your village against wild animals and ravaging bandits.
  • Find and harvest luxury resources and refine them to expensive products.
  • Trade resources to become a prosperous society.
  • Construct 50 different buildings and assign 22 various jobs.
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