Of Life and Land

Of Life and Land

Released May 2025

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

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Evaluation

Of Life and Land launched into Early Access on April 2, 2024, and graduated to its full 1.0 release on May 16, 2025, introducing the Lenzburg scenario, new buildings, physical dirt/humidity simulation, and the Risenna trade scenario with 11 maps. Since its 1.0 release, the developer (Kerzoven) has continued actively updating the game: a new Kerzoven single-city scenario with AI trading villages shipped on July 25, 2025, and feature patches have continued through March 19, 2026 — addressing trading systems, performance, music, wolves as pets, UI improvements, and balance changes. Across its full post-launch lifespan, the game has seen 7 major content releases and 31 feature patches, with updates arriving roughly every 1–3 months. This is a sustained, active development cadence. The developer has not announced the conclusion of post-launch support, and the most recent communication (March 19, 2026) is approximately 3 months before today's date, well within the established update window. Notably, in October 2025 the developer also announced a new separate game ("If Red Then Stop"), but this announcement was paired with continued Of Life and Land updates and does not indicate a wind-down of support for this title.
Evidence
Most recent update: balance and feature improvements including Apothecary tracking, community center management, fruit tree buffs, and crash fixes
news post · Mar 19, 2026 source development ongoing
high
Major trading system overhaul improving trading speed, market behavior, faction takeovers, and volume handling for mid/late-game
news post · Feb 9, 2026 source development ongoing
high

Content

1 of 1 released · no outstanding content

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Metaroot
Achievements
67
Platform
Windows, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Take the role of a leader delegated to build new settlements in remote, unknown corners of the empire. In those forgotten places, nature is wild and legends are more real and vivid than one may think. Experience the challenges of different seasons and climates in a world, where every animal and every plant tries to find their place in nature, while you lead your villagers. How much will you share with nature? Will you strive for balance or even enforce the extinction of certain animals? Follow the old paths… or find your own.

Find Balance (Or Not)

Humans share the same space and resources with nature, and they influence each other. While in the beginning the influence of the humans is insignificant, it gets more and more important when the city - and its needs - grow. There is a risk that some animals or groups will become extinct or explosively multiply, depending on your actions.

Build Your Economy

Manage the acquisition, refinement, and distribution of resources. Goods must be transported to desired locations by someone who has the time and space to do it.

Care For All Living Things

Manage the needs of the citizens. They are “alive” and have a specific home, workplace, and broad range of needs and goals. But animals also look for food, get thirsty, sleepy, form groups, look for social interactions, and try to find their place in nature. Even plants need water and the right temperature in order to survive.

Observe The Vibrant World

Seasons and weather affect the gameplay. Certain plants grow only in certain seasons, need more water on hot days or freeze during cold periods. Humans and animals need more energy to keep warm in winter or more water in summer to keep cool. In extreme cases, they suffer from exhaustion and may even be harmed.

Take Your Time

You set the pace. Pause the game, speed it up or slow it down whenever you want. Nature is robust, and your villagers develop more complex needs as you progress.

Build Your Own Scenarios

Create your own maps and scenarios in the editor. You can change the landscape, generate plants, and place animals. You can also connect watercourses and create new paths for travellers. Add new maps or link existing ones together to a new world.

Features

  • Unique deep simulation of the nature in a building strategy game with complex interdependence between humans and nature.

  • Manage simultaneously the acquisition, refining and distribution of resources on multiple maps in different climatic conditions.

  • Manage the needs of the citizens. They are “alive” and have a specific home, workplace, and unique needs.

  • Animals are looking for food, get thirsty, sleepy, and form social groups to find their place in nature.

  • Plants grow and are affected by the actions of the humans, animals, and their environment.

  • Seasons and climate affect the gameplay, as certain plants grow only under certain conditions. Temperature affects humans, animals, plants, and the environment.

  • Interact and trade with other factions that produce goods with the same rules as you do.

  • Create own maps and scenarios in the editor and extend them using mods.

  • Charming and calm low poly art style.

Last evaluated Jun 16, 2026
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