Surviving Medieval

Surviving Medieval is a survival strategy game with indirect control and tower defense elements. You build and manage a settlement, keeping its people supplied and its economy running while preparing to defend against barbarian raids. The goal is to survive for as long as possible.

Build your settlement

Flexible tile-based building lets you design custom structures, from a town to a castle, within the limits of room requirements. You can build workshops at different scales, develop industry to produce goods for the settlement, and construct walls, ballistas and traps. Walls shield citizens from raids, but your army must ultimately deal with the barbarians, who can be fought in the field or lured into prepared ambushes.

Manage citizens and trade

The demands system tracks each citizen’s condition and whether their needs are met. Those needs have effects: eating restores a small amount of health, while missing meals causes hunger and, over time, health loss. Balancing taxes against citizens’ demands is important, since an imbalance makes them unhappy faster.

Gold is a key settlement resource, needed to build defenses strong enough to stop barbarians from killing the king. You can trade surplus goods to merchants to replenish the treasury, or buy items the settlement lacks to increase production.

Research technologies

Research takes place at a science desk. Each day, scientists propose a number of science books, and you choose which technologies to pursue and spend science points on. Technologies may become available by chance or through careful planning. Combining three books for the same technology produces one tier 2 book; combining three tier 2 books produces one tier 3 book. Bookshelves hold only 10 active technologies, so you must plan which areas to develop.