Developer: Polymorph Games
Publisher: Polymorph Games
Release: Out now (early access)
On: Windows
From: Steam, GOG
For: 27, $30, 30
Free-form town-builder Foundation, which popped up on Steam & GOG early access last week, falls squarely into the category of “games I wholeheartedly recommend but struggle to say many useful things about.” It’s like a bath. Baths are good. I like baths. You should take more baths. But I’m reasonably sure you don’t want to hear about what I listened to on the radio, what I was thinking about as I stared at the ceiling for twenty minutes, what colour my towel was or how thoroughly I scrubbed my armpits. (And if you do, let me know and I’ll set up the Patreon immediately).
Foundation is indulgent. It’s about doing what you want, which is to say building a sweet little medieval economy, without much else getting in the way. Soaking in bubbles, by way of building bakeries and shearing sheep.