High Strategy: Urukon
Released May 2020
Urukon is an experimental grand strategy game inspired by Euro-style board games. You play as one of 32 factions on a dying alien world. Each turn, you get to take just one of 10 actions. To achieve your chosen faction's goal, you'll need to carefully juggle multiple interactive systems.
86% positive · 108 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
High Strategy: Urukon launched on May 22, 2020 as a self-contained grand strategy game. The developer's post-launch communications have not introduced any new content for Urukon itself. The two most recent major posts — from July 24 and August 6, 2025 — are announcements for an entirely separate game, Beasts of Fortune. The August 25, 2023 post similarly announced a sequel, High Strategy: Oradros. Neither of these represent new content for Urukon. The developer's attention has clearly moved on to follow-up projects. There are no unreleased DLC listings, no roadmaps, and no developer statements indicating any further updates are planned for Urukon. The game appears to have shipped as a complete, finished product and has remained in that state.
Evidence
Developer announces High Strategy: Oradros, a sequel/follow-up to Urukon, as a separate product. No new content announced for Urukon.
Store description presents a complete, fully-featured game with 32 factions, 10 actions, and 67 landmarks — no mention of planned additions or early access status.
Media
Details
Developer
Publisher
Iron Boar Labs Ltd.
Achievements
32
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player
About this game
This game is a grand strategy enthusiast's attempt to find a purified core loop of decision-making. All needless repetitive tasks are unceremoniously discarded. Instead, you get 10 actions that consume or convert 9 primary resources. Each turn, you (and each AI-controlled faction) get to take one action. The complexity comes from a dynamic world with many interactive systems.
The actions you can take:
Some example considerations that you'll need to juggle:
The actions you can take:
- Respond to foreign invasions and natural calamities.
- Trade one resource for another.
- Recruit soldiers or labourers from your population.
- Nurture a city to boost its production.
- Steal resources from your neighbours.
- Infiltrate cities in preparation for an attack.
- Capture foreign cities by force.
- Negotiate to induce cities to join you peacefully.
- Build or restore unique landmarks.
- Excavate in search of resources and unique relics.
Some example considerations that you'll need to juggle:
- Each of the 32 playable factions has asymmetric starting conditions and unique goals.
- Cities are populated by various combinations of different cultures, which produce and require different resources.
- Actions affect relations with AI-controlled factions, which modify how they act toward you.
- There are no formal truces or alliances, and any faction can attack any other faction at any time (with a few story-related exceptions).
- Some cities are subaquatic, and require a different resource to capture or raid.
- Cities can be affected by random or circumstance-driven events.
- 67 unique landmarks can be built or restored to give a powerful bonus.
- A faction's capital cannot be relocated, and losing it destroys the faction entirely.
- Capturing another faction's capital lets you seize any relics they own, which are otherwise random finds.
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Last evaluated Jun 25, 2026
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