Planned Release Date: 2026

About This Game

Remnants of the Settlers is a turn-based survival strategy game designed to satisfy the itch for 4X gameplay while emphasizing survival through tight resource management as you claim land and defend your borders. It features a low learning curve, streamlined yet meaningful mechanics, and playthroughs that can be completed in a single sitting.

This game was born from a desire to recapture the thrill of 4X strategy without the steep time investment, and to offer the tension of RTS games without the exhausting pace. It’s for players who crave thoughtful decisions, not overwhelming complexity. A game you can enjoy after a long day.

The World

You arrive as a weary wanderer, having fled a tyrant’s rule and crossed a wilderness filled with loss. Now, in a fertile but contested land, you must guide your few remaining kinsmen to build, survive, and thrive even as other desperate survivors fight for the same refuge.

What the game offers:

• Tile by tile expansion and building construction

• Gather resources either from natural resources or directly from your enemies

• Each tile type only allows specific buildings so plan ahead as you maximize adjacency bonuses

• Forest and mountains are impassable, and act as natural defense so expand fast with risk or grow at your little nook

• Conquer enemy territories peacefully through border pressure and claim their buildings one by one

• Build cohesively and upgrade your buildings to increase your control over your land to resist border pressure

• Strategize with incomplete information in an RTS-like fog of war where you only know what you last saw

• Multiple victory conditions to support different strategies

• Play around with map size, terrain distribution, and number of AIs to spice things up

A Tense, Bittersweet Game of Survival

Remnants of the Settlers is designed for short, emotionally charged playthroughs. A full run can be completed in a few hours, but every session offers new map, new decisions, and new stories you create. A story of your survival... at what cost.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

The developers describe how their game uses AI Generated Content like this:

Generative AI tools were used during development for the creation of placeholder game assets and design support. These include:

- Simple sprites most of which were refined by hand manually.
- Generation of fictional city names
- Grammar checks and polishes for textual contents

The placeholder assets generated with the help of AI are slowly being replaced as development continues.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

Remnants of the Settlers contains stylized, non-graphic depictions of combat between militia units, including attack and death animations. While the visual tone avoids gore or realistic violence, characters can die during strategic battles as part of the gameplay.

The game also features narrative themes of exile, oppression, and moral ambiguity, including references to a tyrannical regime and the struggle of displaced people seeking refuge in contested lands. No explicit language or sexual content is present.