Foundation

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Foundation

Short description

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Developer
Polymorph Games
Publisher
Polymorph Games
Release
Fri, Jan 31, 2025
Price
$34.99
Reviews
23,298
Positive
87%
Followers
236,209
Owners (estimated)
500K – 1M
Concurrent players
844
Genres
Indie, Simulation, Strategy
Tags
City Builder Simulation Medieval Strategy Sandbox Resource Management Management Relaxing Atmospheric Economy Building Indie Singleplayer Base-Building Colony Sim Open World Survival RTS Choices Matter Early Access
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$30.5msomewhere between $15.2m and $30.5m · roughly 500K–1M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $30.47, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $34.99 launch price. That is 13% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

86 data points since Aug 5, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$29.9m → ~$30.5m
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Reviews 22,810 → 23,298
Followers 233,035 → 236,209
Concurrent players 844 → 844
Price $34.99 → $34.99
Positive reviews 86.4% → 86.6%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 219 further data points reach back to Feb 1, 2019 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $20.99 on Oct 9, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Foundation is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? City Builder + Simulation + Medieval

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Foundation. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
Life is Feudal: Forest Village Life is Feudal: Forest Village Mindillusion first game 5 − Sandbox + Colony Sim $24.99 5,225 66% Fri, May 26, 2017 $5.5m
$4.7m – $9.8m
Stronghold 3 Gold Stronghold 3 Gold Firefly Studios 17 titles 5 − Sandbox + RTS $29.99 2,999 32% Fri, May 25, 2012 $3.4m
$1.5m – $25.2m
Settlements Rising Settlements Rising The Catalyst Crew first game 5 − Sandbox + Colony Sim $18.99 419 80% Mon, Jan 20, 2025 $320k
$142k – $340k
Civitatem Civitatem LW Games first game 5 − Sandbox + Indie $12.99 112 60% Mon, Aug 01, 2022 $64k
$28k – $113k
Cities: Skylines Cities: Skylines Colossal Order 4 titles 4 − Medieval − Resource Management + Building + Management $29.99 219,190 93% Tue, Mar 10, 2015 $264m
$264m – $463m

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