The Uncultured

The Uncultured is a museum-management game set in a society where art and culture have crumbled. You manage a struggling museum, developing and displaying art to restore creativity and reshape history.

Create your avatar

Customize an avatar using 20 appearance categories and 13 color options. You can design and save up to three avatars and switch between them. Nearly 500 pieces of gear are available to unlock and collect.

Design your museum

Build and decorate rooms, placing display cases with art, statues on bases and framed works on gallery walls. Balance lighting to make spaces welcoming: too much light can dazzle visitors, while fireplaces provide warmth but increase upkeep. Extra decorations can add charm, and specializing a room can improve it further.

You can change the colors of torches, candles and fireplaces, and give rooms different colors, themes and styles. Apply changes to individual rooms or to the whole museum at once; additional customization tools unlock as you progress. Museum expansions also let you open new rooms.

Manage staff and security

Art thieves target valuable pieces, while anti-artists vandalize artworks and dirty the museum. You can deal with these problems yourself or hire staff to help:

• Guards: catch thieves and handle troublemakers.
• Cleaners: keep the museum clean and restore it after vandalism.
• Educators: answer visitors’ questions and enrich their experience.
• Brochure distributors: attract more visitors by spreading the word.

Grow your museum

Earn skill points as you progress and use them to improve abilities. Skills can increase visitor capacity and cultural impact, reduce costs and attract more guests, among other effects.

The museum’s influence inspires local artists to create new, higher-quality work, and the art market changes over time. You can acquire pieces for your collection through the market or venture into the back streets to find stolen art at lower prices. These works are lower quality and come with risks.

Detailed graphs track the museum’s performance day by day. Hourly reports cover income, expenses, visitor feedback, updates and donations, giving you information to help adjust your rooms. The game also includes an interactive tutorial and achievements.