Planned Release Date: 2027

About This Game

Shanhe Builders is a 3D top-down home-building survival simulation set in a fictional world inspired by ancient China. Lead one to three settlers into a plain, offshore island, great-river valley, or wetland. Begin with gathering, hauling, and a temporary shelter, then turn a patch of wilderness into a place where people can live.

Choose where to make a home

Four landscape types and three map sizes create different shorelines, vegetation, and resource layouts. Versioned recipes and seeds make the same starting conditions reproducible, helping you understand why a settlement succeeds or stalls.

Turn plans into real work

Designate resource sources and storage, then place blueprints for rammed-earth walls, fences, regional homes, beds, campfires, and wells. Settlers reserve items, haul materials, clear and level ground, deliver supplies, and construct in stages. Set work priorities from above or take direct control of one resident.

Care for a small group

Hunger, energy, body temperature, health, and injury create needs for food, rest, washing, and first aid. Day and night, seasons, temperature, and deterministic weather shape the environment around the settlement.

A focused playable foundation

The current formal build follows a clear first-settlement arc: complete a rammed-earth wall, bring in the first food harvest, cook rice porridge in a clay pot, and make sure a resident actually eats it. An optional step-by-step guide and explicit success or failure outcome make the production chain readable.

Development is ongoing. The current version does not yet include saving, combat, animals, manufacturing, research, or a long-form campaign, and the store materials do not present those systems as finished gameplay.

AI Generated Content Disclosure

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

Some pre-generated 3D art assets and textures were created with generative AI tools during development. These assets are reviewed, selected, adjusted, and integrated by the developer before inclusion. The game does not provide player-facing real-time generative AI features.