Founders' Fortune

Founders' Fortune is a colony-building game in which you direct a group of colonists as they establish a settlement. They arrive with only the clothes on their backs, so you assign them to gather materials and build walls, floors, furniture and homes. Rather than using only predefined buildings, you can design houses from dozens of construction and furniture elements and style them as you like.

Care for your villagers

Food and shelter are the first needs to meet, but illness and other dangers can threaten the whole settlement. Infections can kill even the strongest warrior, while a plague can wipe out the colony. Villagers respond to events and show their happiness or sadness in their behavior: happy villagers become more productive, while unhappy ones may throw temper tantrums.

Villagers form friendships and some start families, bringing children into the settlement. The children are its future, so you need to provide them with a happy childhood and an adequate education, which can be difficult to achieve at the same time.

Grow and store food

You grow seasonal crops and prepare meals in a kitchen. Food affects villagers’ health, happiness and pace of work: good food makes them happy, the wrong food can make them sick, too little food slows them down, and no food can cause them to die. Stock up before winter, and respond quickly when hungry bugs swarm the fields.

Winter brings freezing weather and the risk of dwindling supplies. If you have to halve rations, your colonists grow weak.

Trade and research

Traveling traders visit once word spreads that the colony is producing goods. You can trade with them for items such as ancient scrolls or additional food, and keep production going so there is always something to sell. A mature colony needs to pay good salaries to keep its villagers happy; when morale is low, extra funds can also buy a little happiness.

Colonists can research technologies to unlock better equipment, furniture and construction elements. Choose scholars carefully, since those whose personalities do not suit the work make little progress.

Defend your settlement

Tikigoblins who live in the new land may object to your settlement and visit to try to drive you away. You can train colonists in warfare and equip them with weapons and armor, then build walls and towers to protect the colony.

Make and play mods

Founders' Fortune includes a ModKit and tutorials to help modders get started. You can make your own mods or play mods from the Steam Workshop.