New Cycle
Early access since Jan 2024
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
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Evaluation
New Cycle entered Steam Early Access on January 18, 2024 and remains in active Early Access. The developer, Core Engage, has been consistently and substantially expanding the game throughout this period with a healthy cadence of major content updates.
Since launch, the game has received five major content updates: the 'Produce & Deliver' update (July 11, 2024), the combined Alpha 25.400 update (November 20, 2025) bringing physics-based water, ships, new maps, high-tier housing, and visual customization, the 'Big Farming Update' (January 23, 2026) overhauling terrain-based production and adding new farming/livestock structures, the 'Road & Highway Update' (March 14, 2026) introducing new road systems and horse cart logistics, and Alpha 26-510.02 (September 16, 2026) — released just yesterday — which completely overhauled all humanoid NPC models and animations, added a major engine upgrade with 15–25% GPU performance gains, and introduced several new subsystems.
The September 16, 2026 update post explicitly states that the *next* major update — already in planning — will include significant gameplay changes affecting the development tree, regulations, and effects, and that save files will not be compatible once it releases. This is a direct developer communication confirming that further substantial development is ahead.
The developer has also communicated ongoing plans in earlier posts: the January 2026 farming update described a soil-decline mechanic explicitly earmarked for a future update, and the November 2025 update outlined multiple planned expansions including more detailed animal husbandry infrastructure and improvements to waste management. No 1.0 release date or completion announcement has been made.
Evidence
Alpha 26-510.02 shipped, completely overhauling NPC models and animations, adding a major engine upgrade for 15–25% GPU gains, and several new subsystems. The post explicitly states the next major update is already planned and will include significant gameplay changes (development tree, regulations, effects), and that save files will break at that version.
Road & Highway Update shipped, adding new road systems, horse cart logistics, a new playable map, and building variants. Post also mentions plans for a more detailed animal husbandry sub-expansion in the future.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
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Developer
Publisher
Daedalic Entertainment
Achievements
55
Platform
Windows
Controller
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Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
Build and expand your settlement using free form or grid-based design. Seek, gather and produce new resources to advance your civilization. As you develop it further, you will re-discover the more advanced and complex ways of the past to produce goods on a large scale.
This hostile world will challenge you with sand storms, shortages, wildfires and other natural disasters. Be prepared and always ready to act quickly. But nature isn’t the only thing to worry about: Refugee crises, unrest, disease outbreaks – the list of challenges is long. You will have to make crucial decisions, many of them painful, to avert the downfall of your civilization.
Take care of your people’s basic needs. Distribute food, water, tools and clothes and regulate their daily work schedule. Enrich their life with entertainment, prevent diseases and improve your people’s health by providing medical facilities. With every new member of your community you get closer to re-discovering the forgotten technologies of the old world.
As your settlement develops into an industrial city, running on fuel and burning coal, a whole new level of productivity opens up to you. Mass-production, automation, factories feeding factories via complex systems of conveyor belts. Modernize your workforce by training your people in these specialized tasks.
Each era has the potential to improve your production as well as the lives of your people, giving you access to numerous new buildings. As your settlement develops into an industrial city, running on fuel and burning coal, a whole new level of productivity opens up to you.
Explore your surroundings to find places of interest and untapped resources. Build outposts to make them accessible to your people and establish a train network to transport them.
The year is 2073. After an apocalyptic series of devastating solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. With the technological advancements of the past almost completely lost, the remnants of humanity now struggle to survive. But, even in this desperate world, one thing remains true: As one era ends, another era begins. It is time for a new cycle.
Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis. Ensure the survival of your people against all odds. Remember: There is always hope. And our greatest achievement is yet to come…
New Cycle – There must be a future beyond survival.
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Last evaluated Sep 17, 2026
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