Settlement Survival

Settlement Survival

Released Oct 2022

In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.

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All announced content has been released
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Evaluation

Settlement Survival launched on October 24, 2022 and has received substantial post-launch content over its development cycle. The major milestones include the Tourism DLC (released July 28, 2023) and the large "Calamities and Catastrophes" version 1.1 update (released June 21, 2024), which introduced an entirely new combat mode, a revamped disaster system, beast invasions, bandit camps, and military buildings. The developer described this update in their devlog as "the final piece of the puzzle" for the game's core design, suggesting it completed the intended vision for the base experience. Both DLC entries listed on the store — the Tourism pack (July 28, 2023) and the Soundtrack (July 10, 2024) — have been released. No unreleased DLC is listed. Since the v1.1 update in June 2024, developer communication has consisted of bug fixes and a security patch (October 4, 2025 addressing a Unity vulnerability), with no announcements of new content, expansions, or future development plans. The devlog from July 2023 mentioned future ideas like "Infinite Technology" and "Revamp Random Events," but these were described as vague intentions at the time, and the subsequent v1.1 update — described by the developer as completing the game's design — plausibly fulfilled or superseded those plans. No post-v1.1 communication has re-confirmed those features as still planned. The developer's last substantive content activity was the v1.1 release on June 21, 2024, and the most recent post (October 4, 2025) was a routine security patch with no content announcements. There is no sustained post-1.1 update cadence to suggest ongoing content development. The game appears to have reached its intended complete state with the v1.1 update.
Evidence
Major version 1.1 update 'Calamities and Catastrophes' shipped, adding combat mode, revamped disaster system, beast invasions, bandit camps, and military structures.
news post · Jun 21, 2024 source content shipped
high
Developer described the upcoming v1.1 'Calamities and Catastrophes' update as 'the final piece of the puzzle' for the game's design, addressing the late-game pacing issues that had been a longstanding concern.
news post · Jun 14, 2024 source development ending
high

Content

2 of 2 released · no outstanding content

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Details

Developer
Publisher
Team17
Achievements
51
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player

About this game

Lead your people to their new settlement in this survival city-builder. You will need to provide their shelter, guarantee the food supply, protect against threats of nature, and pay attention to well-being, happiness, education, and employment. Do all of this well, and you might even attract residents from foreign cities!

Choose where to build your settlement based on nearby resources, before determining your perfect layout. How will you build your settlement?

Carve out the land, join rivers, form lakes and use your tools to shape your settlement exactly how you want it.

Build housing, recruit Mayors to determine the morality of your settlement, control crime and ensure your baby-booms don’t negatively impact your resources.

Experience all seasons and heed the early warning signs of disasters. Bunker down and protect your citizens from the elements as well as environmental disasters, or risk losing all that you’ve built.

Offering powerful effects, unique themes and styles, rare blueprints are an opportunity to customize your settlement even further when you’ve mastered the art of trading.

Determine which development routes you will choose, with options that range from trading, education, mining, construction, agriculture, processing, logistics, and liveability. Each route unlocks new buildings and abilities to boost development. and there is no set pattern to the route selection, so you can choose freely and play to your strengths.

With each map randomly generated, right down to its resources and landmarks, every experience is unique and brings with it its own challenges.

Whether exchanging artistic items of high value, unprocessed products or unlocking the mint to create a common currency, trade is key to your populations survival.

Experience a unique game mode designed to challenge even the most experienced player. From the bubonic plague in Europe, to the Easter Island disaster, are you able to overcome its challenges?

Last evaluated Jun 19, 2026
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