DawnWorld Founders
Release date: Dec 11, 2025
Developers: Mindful Games
Publishers: Mindful Games
Genres: Casual, Indie, Strategy, Early Access
Categories: Single-player, Adjustable Text Size, Camera Comfort, Custom Volume Controls, Adjustable Difficulty, Playable without Timed Input, Save Anytime, Family Sharing
Supported languages: English

Shipwrecked and abandoned in an unknown land. Build, expand, and even influence a medieval world where every decision shapes your rise. Establish yourself, repel threats, and guide your people's progress and destiny from above and on the ground in this relaxing single-player city builder. Shipwrecked and Abandoned After your hopes are dashed and your fellow travelers decide to move on, just a few decide to stay and build a new life. There's a few supplies from the wreck to start off. so it's a good idea to start gathering essential resources to keep you going and survive.   Survive Start with a small camp, collect materials and build the basics, like shelter where you can prepare food, forage huts for herbs and berries, hunting lodges for food and start farming to sustain the people. Keep the health and contentment of your settlement up to establish a good starting point to expand. Build from Nothing Once you have enough resources, start to improve on what you have. Improve on your existing buildings or build better ones straight away. As word gets around, there will be more opportunity to trade for what you need. Dual Mode of Play Build, observe and direct from above or zoom down to ground level to inspect progress. Influence Developments as you go Guide the settlers to survive and grow from above. Tip the scales occasionally in their favor while they benefit from their efforts. This mechanism also allows the control of difficulty level and speed of advancement, so you can enjoy playing at whichever level you prefer. Grow Build a trading post and trading dock to attract more passing trade. Build production units, like iron ore smelters, potteries and blacksmiths, increase production and build warehouses for storage. This sets you up for expansion and more control over the surrounding region, or you can decide just to build up your town where you are.  Balance the Essentials The ratio of wells, herbs and berries, meat, bread and housing are important to keeping the people content and working well. Settlement production depends on how happy the people are, if you guide them well they will thrive and prosper. Fend Off Bandits Defend your settlers from danger while maintaining peace and order. As your settlement improves, it will become more attractive to local bandits. Set up defense towers and walls to protect the settlers and make the settlement more appealing to passers by.  Explore and Expand   - Claim Free Areas Discover new areas, unlock resources, and expand your influence across the region if you like. As you establish your control over a vacant area through flags and outposts. Local bandit may well object as you enter their area of influence. Decide where and when you act to drive out threats from a particular area, making it safe for locals and allowing expansion.  Monitor your Areas From Above Keep an eye on regional movements from above. The areas you control are shown from on high by hexagonal blocks. You can see when invaders move into your area, changing to a warning hexagon. If you lose control, this is also indicated so you can deal with it as you prefer. Relaxed Gameplay Designed for players who enjoy thoughtful, non-rushed city building, DawnWorld Founders can played at various levels, enjoy low risk while keeping you people happy, balance their work-life with trade opportunities to grow at a comfortable rate, or expand a little more while controlling the risk to reward ratio,  Single-Player Focus No distractions, just you and the world you're building.