Villagers
Released Mar 2016
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed town-building game where you build a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
52% positive · 384 reviews
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All announced content has been released
High confidence
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Evaluation
Villagers launched on March 25, 2016 and received a concentrated burst of post-launch updates through mid-2016. The developer shipped several feature updates and bug-fix patches between March and August 2016, adding new freeplay maps, improved raider mechanics, new achievements, and various gameplay improvements. The last developer communication on record was an August 8, 2016 announcement about the game's soundtrack being included in a bundle — which also mentioned that German voice support was being completed as a final remaining item. There have been no developer posts, patches, or announcements of any kind since August 2016, now nearly a decade ago. The store description presents the game as a complete package with a defined feature set (27 buildings, 16 characters, 2 game modes, 6 maps). No DLC has been listed, no roadmap or future content was ever announced beyond the German voice work, and no unreleased content appears in the store listing. The game launched as a finished product and received polish updates in the months following launch, after which all development activity ceased.
Evidence
Last developer communication: announcement about the game's soundtrack bundle, mentioning German voice support was being completed. No posts of any kind after this date.
v1.1 update added three new freeplay maps, improved raiders, and new achievements — the last substantive content addition to the game.
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Avanquest Software Publishing Ltd
Achievements
18
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game
Step back into medieval times in this town-building, people simulation game!
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed game where you build and nurture a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
Gather and manage natural resources for buildings, ensure a plentiful supply of food and water to keep your villagers happy and allocate them jobs to continually improve and expand your settlement. Watch out for travelling artists who can spread illness, fierce bandits and wild animals that attack your townsfolk and extreme weather conditions that threaten their very survival!
In Story Mode you follow the journey of a group of medieval settlers living through dark times filled with war and illness. Using your town building and resource management skills you must guide them through six challenging missions that introduce the different aspects of Villagers gameplay. The campaigns guide you through building your first town, trading with merchants, food and water provision, managing the emotional wellbeing of your villagers, coping will illness and defending your townsfolk from attack!
You start your game on virgin lands and learn to build a community that allows your town to thrive. Happy villagers are more productive, form relationships and build homes. Couples living in houses will eventually have children who are delivered to your town by a stork! As these offspring grow up, they themselves become workers and help to support the growing town. Adults grow old and weak and eventually die, so you can follow the life of your villagers from birth to death.
Villagers is a lighthearted yet challenging town-building simulation game that will provide hours of engaging fun – are you up to the challenge?
Includes a Free Play mode with unlimited hours of fun across 6 varied maps with full access to all 27 buildings from the game.
Key Features:
• 2 modes of play; Story Mode and FreePlay
• Engaging and humorous storyline that illustrates medieval life
• 27 beautifully designed buildings to construct
• 16 illustrated and colourful characters
• 16 professions with their own clothing sets
• Sophisticated AI that influences happiness, relationships, families and duties
• Challenging missions; trade with merchants, manage livestock; control food and water supplies, produce and sell crops....
• Unlimited fun in FreePlay mode with over 6 maps to explore
Villagers is a beautifully illustrated and richly detailed game where you build and nurture a thriving community using the people and resources around you. Success or failure depends on your ability to create a town that can grow and prosper, and overcome the harsh realities of medieval life!
Gather and manage natural resources for buildings, ensure a plentiful supply of food and water to keep your villagers happy and allocate them jobs to continually improve and expand your settlement. Watch out for travelling artists who can spread illness, fierce bandits and wild animals that attack your townsfolk and extreme weather conditions that threaten their very survival!
In Story Mode you follow the journey of a group of medieval settlers living through dark times filled with war and illness. Using your town building and resource management skills you must guide them through six challenging missions that introduce the different aspects of Villagers gameplay. The campaigns guide you through building your first town, trading with merchants, food and water provision, managing the emotional wellbeing of your villagers, coping will illness and defending your townsfolk from attack!
You start your game on virgin lands and learn to build a community that allows your town to thrive. Happy villagers are more productive, form relationships and build homes. Couples living in houses will eventually have children who are delivered to your town by a stork! As these offspring grow up, they themselves become workers and help to support the growing town. Adults grow old and weak and eventually die, so you can follow the life of your villagers from birth to death.
Villagers is a lighthearted yet challenging town-building simulation game that will provide hours of engaging fun – are you up to the challenge?
Includes a Free Play mode with unlimited hours of fun across 6 varied maps with full access to all 27 buildings from the game.
Key Features:
• 2 modes of play; Story Mode and FreePlay
• Engaging and humorous storyline that illustrates medieval life
• 27 beautifully designed buildings to construct
• 16 illustrated and colourful characters
• 16 professions with their own clothing sets
• Sophisticated AI that influences happiness, relationships, families and duties
• Challenging missions; trade with merchants, manage livestock; control food and water supplies, produce and sell crops....
• Unlimited fun in FreePlay mode with over 6 maps to explore
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