Laysara: Summit Kingdom

Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a challenging city builder about rebuilding the kingdom after its people are forced out of the lowlands. In a campaign or sandbox playthrough, you establish towns on different mountains, each with its own conditions and challenges. The towns support one another through a trading network that you can adjust by revisiting settlements you have already developed.

Build on the mountains

Mountains differ in shape, vegetation zones, available resources and weather. Some have green lowlands with room for farming; others require you to rely on breeding and extracting minerals from areas near peak glaciers. When you lack a resource, you can establish a trade route with another town.

Prepare for avalanches

Avalanches are a constant danger, and you cannot stop them. You can plant forests in key areas to form natural barriers, build artificial barriers to redirect snow, or trigger an avalanche early while it is still manageable. With a reliable strategy, you may be able to use the snow to your advantage; otherwise, an avalanche can bury and devastate your city.

Connect your towns

Delivering goods across mountains means dealing with differences in elevation, cliffs, ridges, canyons and rivers. You build roads, bridges and shafts to create transport networks and reliable delivery chains. As a town grows and its demand for resources increases, you can improve the network with paved roads, more advanced lifting constructions and yaks to help carriers.

Reach the summit

To build a summit temple, you must meet your people’s needs, establish efficient production chains and reach the mountain peak. You also need to create safe routes for carriers to deliver large quantities of building resources, while contending with deadly weather at that height.

The game focuses on city building, the economy, resource management and surviving in an inhospitable environment. It has no combat or other military aspects.