Folk Emerging

Folk Emerging is a turn-based 4X strategy game about leading nomadic families through the Stone Age. You guide hunter-gatherers as they migrate across harsh climates, explore the wilderness, gather and trade scarce resources, and fight in risky autobattler combat. The game explores ecology, Paleolithic societies and the origins of culture, before agriculture and permanent settlements.

Lead your tribe

Manage relationships among individuals, families and tribes as your people adapt over generations. Individuals have deeply simulated, heritable traits that affect game systems, and narrative events can change the course of the tribe. Your choices can have unintended consequences for descendants many generations later. Dynamic social-network visualizations help you understand and manage family trees and relationships within your band.

Combat carries consequences beyond the battlefield: when a warrior falls, the tribe loses a fighter as well as a skilled hunter, a family member and a carrier of hard-won knowledge passed down through the ages. Before each autobattler skirmish, you optimize your strategy.

Navigate the ecosystem

Hunt, gather and extract resources from the surrounding ecosystems, where resources are finite and extraction affects the environment. Maintaining the natural equilibrium matters; nature can bring sudden, unexpected challenges. The game includes nine climates, each with a complex, dynamic food web, and procedurally generated Earth-like maps based on realistic climate simulations.

Develop your culture

A technology tree spans the Pleistocene to the start of the Bronze Age. Its skills range from controlled fire and cooking through domestication and agriculture to megalithic construction and the first cities. You also shape your tribe's culture: its norms evolve, distinguish it from neighboring tribes, and affect trade and war.

Deal with other tribes

You can trade, fight or collaborate with other tribes.