Winter and People

Winter and People is a city-building and tower-defense game set in cold cities. You lead a settlement, assign work to your people, manage resources and defend the town hall from enemies advancing along the city’s main road.

Build and heat your city

You build houses and towers, including heat towers that warm nearby structures within a certain range. Without enough heat, buildings gradually freeze and eventually become unusable. Frozen structures cannot be demolished, so you need to keep them warm.

Your people need food and water to work, so you must monitor food supplies to prevent them from starving. You also set how much tax they pay and how often they pay it. High taxes can frustrate your people and slow resource production, which may even fall behind consumption.

Assign occupations

You control workers and give them orders to develop their skills in different occupations. Lumberjacks process trees, miners extract coal and iron, and fuelers combine wood and coal to produce fuel for heating the city. Toolmakers and farmers are also among the available professions.

Defend the town hall

Enemies follow the main road toward your town hall. You can slow them with ice towers and burn them with flame towers, while defending your city with gun towers and other defenses.

Trade and leader goals

Your city produces and needs a range of resources. You can make resources yourself or buy them from the market, where prices for some resources can change. You can also sell resources you own. If fuel is running low, for example, you can increase production by assigning more fuelers or buy fuel from the market.

Each leader has specific missions. One leader may aim to reach a set amount of money, while another may pursue a goal of taxing their people throughout their life. You must strengthen and defend your city while meeting these challenges.