Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.

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“Folk Emerging is a fascinating 4X strategy game about prehistoric nomads that ends where Civilization begins”
Rock Paper Shotgun

“I think it's the most intriguing 4X in a long while, partly because it declines to entirely become one.”
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“The first 5 turns of Civilization, made into a game.”
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About This Demo

Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with deeply simulated characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the vast wilderness, gather and trade scarce resources, and stand your ground in risky autobattler combat. Discover fire, domestication, politics... and survive to tell the tale.

Demo Features

  • Technology: the full game's tech tree spans the Pleistocene up to the start of the Bronze Age, covering skills from controlled fire and cooking, through domestication and agriculture, all the way to megalithic construction and the first cities. The demo includes the first ~1/3 of the tech tree.

  • Culture: shape your tribe’s unique culture, with evolving cultural norms that differentiate you from your neighbors, affecting trade and war. The demo includes the first ~1/2 of cultural norms.

  • Economy: resources are finite and their extraction affects the environment. 

  • Ecology: the full game has 9 unique climates, each with a complex and dynamic food web. The demo includes 5 climates.

  • Maps: Procedurally generated Earth-like maps based on realistic climate simulations. The demo has 1 map but is replayable due to randomized game seeds.

  • Many generations of deeply simulated individuals with heritable traits, all affecting various game systems.

  • Narrative events that can alter the trajectory of your entire tribe. The demo has a small subset of the full game's events.

  • Social Networks: Dynamic social network visualization, enabling a new way to understand and manage family trees and relationships between members of your band. 

  • Diplomacy: trade, fight, or collaborate with other tribes.

For more details check out the full game's page.

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i5 or equivalent
    • Memory: 2 GB RAM
    • Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 550 or ATI™ Radeon™ HD 6XXX or higher
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Minimum requirements may change during development.
    Recommended:
    • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
    • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
    • Processor: Intel Core i7 or equivalent
    • Memory: 4 GB RAM
    • DirectX: Version 11
    • Storage: 3 GB available space
    • Additional Notes: Recommended requirements may change during development.
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