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Founders' Fortune
Developer Dionic Software
A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager. From the Steam store page
184 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 3, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
61
Fresh
111 positive · 72 negative
95% range 53–67%
| Source | + | − | = |
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| Steam reviews | 111 | 72 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
1 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
1,753 of 2,187 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 184 · most liked firstI cannot recommend this game, at all. Just three hours in and I can tell, this is not a good game. I honestly don't know why it has such a high rating, I seriously cannot fathom it. This is not a good or well made game. Yes, 3d Rimworld is a neat idea, but there are a dozen other games on here that do it much, much better., and have far more to them. This game has no charm, no substance, nothing that would make you want to stick around and keep playing. Mine rocks and chop trees to build,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very, very bugged. I have attempted to play it now 5 times, 5 different saves. First save was ruined by a villager like.. becoming one with a door. Broke the whole save. Just arms stretching the entire span of the map, couldnt click on anyone, etc. Next bug made it so that none of my villagers would sleep in a bed or acknowledge their possessions in any way. Rinse and repeat. And those are just the BUGS, let alone the inadequacies. The fact that youre just constantly being…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What the ♥♥♥♥ happened here? I was convinced I was missing something; both from the "Very Positive" game reviews, and the game itself. Surely there was something to recommend this game amidst all the others that I just wasn't getting. There's no tutorial. In most games like this, they TRY to give you a fighting chance by telling you "right, you're gonna want shelter, this is how you get the ball rolling on food, etc". Usually, the tutorial is only useful for getting yourself in the air, so…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game made me realize why there are thousands of 4x/god sim/city builder games on Steam: the people who play this game style will gobble any slag put on their plate. If a game so boring and soulless can be very positive, then there's no point in even looking at the ratings of sim games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is by far the least intelligent AI I have ever encountered in a city builder, and I have played a significant amount of them. For example, I am surrounded by trees, but for some reason the villager wanted to go chop wood 45 seconds away, right next to a goblin camp. Another villager decided to die of starvation instead of eat food. This is just scratching the surface. I just cannot recommend this game at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here's a little guide, food come first. Make a village near an apple tree, go research farming. plant a 5x5 tomato and 5x5 potato. Focus on micromanaging your farmer first After that you can start focusing on gathering wood for your town improvement. Having a 1 or 2 star farmer priority to everyone in your village to ensure food safety helped too. Have a healthy relationship with the small tribe and the pirate helps a lot, so they don't attack your village often. Just give them what they want…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This looks and feels like an Early Access game... the AI is stupid, there's a lot of things that feels off. The mood thing is always a problem, whatever I do, they have low spirit. And when I spent point to forget negative thoughts, the thoughts came back instantly... so useless. Also, the lack of tutorial and explanations is very painful.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I haven't completely given up on Founders' Fortune yet, but with ridiculous frustrations (example, you go to slaughter a pig but it takes dozens of strikes and an entire herd of pigs attacks and kills your character) it's tough. It gives you missions such as... "build storage for 150 coins" right off the bat, yet you don't have any of the skills necessary to do that. As an experienced player you'd know this and skip it perhaps, but as a new player, you just accept it - then find out you can't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like this game, it was a good purchase for 4,74€ (18,99€ is a rip-off, sorry - 10€ would be a fair price for what you get), but it appears to have been taken out of early access too early and then later abandoned for the cycle to continue. This game is unfished and development appears to be abandoned apart from "bug-fixes" and it appears to be a pattern for these devs. I believe this game had great potential, but it is what it is. Hopefully it will inspire someone who will make a similar game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →bad ai where you set them to do something and they don't listen , priority order doesn't apply properly , my forester doesn't remove stumps and idels randomly ... just not particularly fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I may play some more since I own it and it's not terrible (different from Stranded, Banished, Rimworld, ONI, etc., enough to be a bit interesting), but this game is just much too easy. Once you have 8 or 9 colonists there is very little reason to keep playing unless you just want to get all the tech or build for fun or something, and I've played through twice with barely any difference in the play. There's no real threat in the game unless you are attacked at the same time as bugs infest your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How anyone can recommend this game is beyond me. Your colonists can't do anything, they get distracted every few seconds, need to rest most of the time and basically just sabotage your town building enterprise. You'll have to micromanage them into doing anything if you want to get something done. I'll never know why the devs thought it's a good idea to make you feel like herding retarded, malevolent cats while tribes and pirates spam you with basically unfulfillable quests that lead to game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like it. It was sooo close to be great. But it was abandoned with too many issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Founders' Fortune starts off well enough where you start as a pair of villagers, starting up a small village and dealing with the usual challenges of food, resources and the occasional attack from rival groups. The problems I have, however are quite varied and at times I feel that I'm held back from doing any real city building as it can be a real struggle to get enough resources without attempting to make your characters jack of all trades at the very beginning, especially in regards to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just thought I need to add to add a review as some reviewers are claiming this game to be "abandoned". When the dev released the game as 1.0 they considered it essentially a completed game. The dev does still do bug fixes occasionally to stabilise the game which is good enough. After playing it for 20ish hours I find that it is indeed a complete game. I find it odd that nowadays people seem entitled to ongoing updates when a game is essentially complete. See below for details but for the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i'm rather on the fence on this game. it has some good qualities, but the general gameplay loop leaves much to be desired. as some others have stated, there is no real tutorial and some features i only figured out existed from other reviews (such as the ability to make a village wide schedule rather than trying to micromanage every single villager's actions). the main issue i have is villager's wants scale far too quickly. they want proper beds and their own rooms when i've barely made one…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute Grind fest. 100% time wasted. 100% money wasted. Micro managing hell Trying to build or make the villagers do something uninterrupted is just pure pain. They have very high needs and behave like a toddler with ADHD, always doing what they want even if you tell them to continue with the task you gave them. This little pieces of garbage sleep too much, get bored too easily and can't get anything done without eating, talking or "relaxing" every 10 seconds. and the game tries so hard…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it looks lovely and i really wanted to like this. But after 4 hours i realize its all about micromanaging silly little tasks. You have to micro manage to let one character tell another chararcter a joke, and its all about moving furnature around ... its more like the sims than an actualy colony manager game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BEST GAME EVER. Don’t listen to the red reviews. These people can’t handle micromanagement. This isn’t a peasant game, it’s a KINGDOM game. You start from nothing and build your empire step by step. If these reviewers got isekai’d, they wouldn’t be kings… they’d be the NPC asking for bread in the village square.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Things just....don't work? You can assign people to do tasks at certain times and they just won't. Instead of eating I had one villager just get mad and sleep and then they died instead of eating. And then I couldn't bury them because there were "no open graves" but everyone else was too lazy to dig a grave I guess. Just a terrible experience.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It starts out cute enough but you soon realize that there is no AI at all. So you have to micromanage every action to get anything done. But then they disregard what you tell them to do any random thing (especially rushing enemies that kill them in 3 seconds, that's their favorite hobby). Even when you set a schedule for work times and recreation times they just completely ignore it. One guy is working during recreation time while his "fun" meter is absolute zero. The other is playing the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕒 𝟞 𝕙𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤 𝕝𝕠𝕟𝕘 𝕘𝕒𝕞𝕖 𝕥𝕙𝕒𝕥 𝕚𝕤 𝕥𝕠𝕠 𝕔𝕠𝕞𝕡𝕝𝕚𝕔𝕒𝕥𝕖𝕕 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕚𝕥𝕤 𝕠𝕨𝕟 𝕘𝕠𝕠𝕕. Usually Simulation City-builder games have tutorials, and are straight to the point for the most part. Founders' Fortune sets no tone, has no storyline, is bugged beyond belief and plays like a dragged out D&D board match... It's graphically nice, very cartoonish and that's a plus for this game. The whole concept of the game is that you play as a bunch of colonists that are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The storage and equipment system of this game is terribly designed. For example, you can buy a wooden axe to stop having to kick trees down. However, you cannot just assign it to a character. You have to build a tool rack, which takes wood, of course. So you have to keep on kicking trees. Trying to sell some stuff? Error: Stockpiles don't have enough space for 583 coins. The entire game is riddled with such terrible design decisions. The character is allergic to potatoes? A serious problem…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Refreshing to have a City Builder game that doesn't require you to manage hundreds of workers and lives. At first the sheer limit of how few workers you have is weird coming from other City Builders but the SIMS like aspect of keeping them happy, building relationships, and managing their daily lives actually is a great twist to the regular resource management city builder. Love it :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The AI is a bit off. Though sometimes i like to give direct orders in colony games even though that is rare, This one requires it. no mods I saw fixed it either. I had colonists doing tasks on benches I had no jobs in que for, foraging things even when I told them I wanted farming done first of all. This game has potential to be fun. But other colony games do things better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like the idea but not the execution, so I cannot recommend it. Fans of the genre who have played things like Rimworld, Sims, Stardew Valley, My Time at Portia, and Grow will likely have more fun (re)playing these. +Customization options +Skill choices for starting +Auto and manual saving +Building options +Variety of research -Dated visuals -Lacking skill tooltips -Can't rename townspeople -No story -Very slow pacing -Lacking direction -Poor/lacking tutorial
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't know why this game got all the hate lately, but I have news, people: the game has an options menu before you start it, you can play it with raids or pacifist, the tribes can be all friendly or only few/one of them hostile. You can tweak them how you want it. Anyway, FF is a very well designed village simulation game. It's slow and pretty. The graphics are very beautiful if you like bright colors and 3D detailed models, a nice change from most 2D sprites graphics of most colony…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I REALLY want to like this game, I've played 30 hours and I do find it enjoyable. I don't even mind the grind, though I will admit that even on easy setting, the game is pretty unforgiving. I don't mind that, I like some games to actually feel like survival games, you know? I don't even mind that it feels a bit "half assed" or "watered down". A lot of people have said this feels like an early access or beta game and yeah I agree, it feels like they've left it unfinished, but even that I largely…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It tries to be Rimworld, Sims and Colony survival but fails as it's just too slow. It's a challenging management game that require too much micro-managing because the AI can't do anything right. For example, a sick/injured person can choose to stay in bed until they are fully healthy. But if they get hungry they won't just stand up and eat, but instead slowly die in bed... - The goblins are too demanding and takes nothing for them to attack you. - The founders sometimes likes to insult each…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Challenging game but requires a lot of micromanaging. The graphics is meh but I guess it adds magic to the game. Would have been better it if their was an effective system to better defend the base without much micromanagement so you can better focus on building and the colony can grow food much faster. Defending the base is a huge distraction as the enemies coming towards your base will depend on the number of people that you have. This means you always need to have most if not all your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Founders’ Fortune is a colony simulation that blends settlement-building, life management, and light survival elements into a charming but surprisingly layered experience. Developed and published by Dionic Software, the game starts small: two settlers, a few tools, and a patch of land filled with promise. What unfolds from there is a steadily growing village shaped not just by resource flow and buildings, but by the desires, fears, personalities, and relationships of the colonists themselves.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game keeps pulling me back every few months. It is not perfect, but, it is playable and fun. I love designing, and building protection for my village, This is a bit of a cross-over between The Sims (decide how and when to develop their individual characters and their social interactions) and a city builder (build your homes, village structures, roads etc.) and a castle/fighter game (build fortifications around your city and defend against the enemy) - something for everyone, but, on a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →INCREDIBLY Sexist. Once you have multiple villagers, ITS ONLY THE FEMALES THAT GIVE INSULTS TO THE MALES. Then you have them RUIN the entire save because one of the FEMALE CHARACTERS, SAID AN INSULT TO ONE OF THE MALES then it starts chain reactionary and then makes everyone depressed in the middle of winter. you've GOTTA BE JOKING ME, BUT WTFH?!?!?! The game is also QUITE CRAP for being 22 DOLLARS. WHERE IN CALIFORNIA HELL DID THIS DEV THINK THIS IS WORTH 22 DOLLARS!?!? Thank F*k this was…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Love, love, love. The trick is NOT to try and micro-manage them. Give them what they ask for. Assign them a profession and let them rest. Don't worry, they will get the job done. One thing I would like to see is when one dies that their grave has their name on it. Maybe have them visit the grave of their loved one. That would be very cool. Such a great game! Will get many hours in.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of my favorite colony sims of all time. I certainly think it deserves more popularity than it has achieved. There is a low barrier to entry and a high ceiling making it one of the greatest colony sims I've ever seen. I'd gladly recommend this game and I'd certainly buy it again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It feels like a beta (few bugs); however, a lot of the mechanisms feel underdeveloped. It plays as a very simplistic/water downed version of Rim World. The slower pace could be fine for a more relaxing play through but the lack of depth makes the whole experience feel flat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →3/10 so much of a chore to do the smallest tasks
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A colony building sim where your little people land on an island inhabited by "tiki goblins" and start strip mining the place to build little houses and craft pickaxes or whatever. You farm, cut down trees, mine, and try to pay off the natives until you have the weaponry to slaughter them. Kind of slow, the attacks from the natives get tiring to deal with, and you routinely have to deal with your villagers wandering into a goblin village and getting their asses kicked. Not terrible but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Such a great game. Has some issues, but nothing worth crying about. Only real complaint is that there isn't a second one in development.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much like my colonists, I'm not having any fun.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is charming and fairly relaxing. There is no real threat or depth and everything can be pretty much put on autopilot once you get past the first year or two. That being said it was interesting trying to manage their approvals to get more population to arrive and I really enjoyed being able to build vertically, which is something most games won't even attempt. I would recommend this game to anyone who was looking for a chill little colony builder where the stakes are low and its…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game for some reason. I do wish they would still add more to the game though. IT feels like this game could go further. THe goblins are such a pain but still fun
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I finally had some free time to play and wanted to try something new. This game was in my wishlist along with quite a few others. I compared this one to the others and finally decided to purchase Founders Fortune. I want to recommend it so bad but you might run into the same issue I had. Thinking you found a great game until you really get into it. I wish there was a rating for so-so, Now the game isn't horrible but I do wonder if I should've went with something else. The balance in this game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Founder’s Fortune: The Zany Saga of Settler Shenanigans Ever wondered what it would be like to be the omnipotent ruler of a quirky colony full of settlers with more personality than common sense? Well, Founder’s Fortune lets you do just that! This game offers a delightful blend of survival, management, and enough wacky moments to keep you entertained for hours. You kick off with two brave (or blissfully ignorant) settlers who wash up on an island with little more than a few tools and grand…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's much simpler then something like Rimworld, but has enough depth to still be interesting with combat, skills, resource gathering, base building, limited diplomacy and such. The automation is pretty good, but playing optimally is going to require quite a bit of micromanagement. It does have some bugs though such as miscellaneous storage not properly storing books which makes them a pointless resource drain. There is a mod to fix this, but should have been addressed in an official capacity…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a really good blend of The Sims, resource management, and defense/fighting. I will say the first time you play, you may want to start on Calm because even Exciting is kicking my butt and I get so thankful for the autosaves that I use to jump back to before my villagers were all slaughtered... Some say Calm is too easy, so I recommend it just at least for getting a feel for the game. I would also recommend NOT making enemies with anyone (if you can help it) till you've gotten some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A really fun colony sim with a surprising amount of depth. I like the system of having to appease your colonists in order to advance, and the house building function is great!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Mommy, I want Rimworld!" "We have Rimworld at home." Rimworld at home: This ♥♥♥♥.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish i could enjoy this game more but because of so many missing features that would of tied the game up nicely but I just cant not overlook design flaws. The developers should think about maybe adding a suggestion box to the game to implement features that would of helped out a lot in the base game instead of leaving it up a very small community of modders to potentially fix and add in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →make guy into forester. first thing he does is run into the middle of a goblin camp and die
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Micromanager's Fortune" - This is a good game with a few flaws that really do the game bad. They'd be so easily fixed as well. Now this game is brutal to start, you really don't have your hand held and I like it. While there's no story generator like in RimWorld but you'll get stories, oh yes you will. You will lose people. You will WANT to lose people, especially children who get all the bad luck. Other people you will keep alive out of sheer respect and have them guzzling dodgy potions…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →like Sims 1 but constant interaction with them even as they work. relationships bloom, interactions with factions, nice music and sound effects. worth it on sale, maybe full price if you can swing it. I didn't like the... hmm, nothing yet.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you like city-builders and micro-managing, then this game may just be up your alley. You can read discussions and Wikis, OR go in blind and just follow the in-game instructions and tips.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You get to lead a bunch of braindead colonists, they will constantly insult each other, lie down and relax every 3 seconds instead of doing their assigned task and will walk into enemy territory and die when they have trees right next to their home. Would be more enjoyable if the pathfinding and constant hatred among each other would get fixed but unfortunately this game is abandoned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →abandoned? yes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is nice but DEVs abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cozy game, maybe worth it for some at 70%-off but generally just a downgrade from Songs of Syx and Rimworld if you are looking for simulation and gameplay depth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun game with some bugs. Gets stale after a while because there really is nothing to do besides building your settlement.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Slow and not interesting. Try Craft the World, Factory Town, and Necesse instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I read the reviews while the game was downloading, and I thought perhaps they were being a little harsh, especially about "you'll get tired of it in less than 30 mins". Unfortunately, they forgot to mention the fact that the 30 mins feels like 2hrs. If time flies when you're having fun... well this isn't it.
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