Dawnfolk

Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark and minimalist survival city-builder. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths to bring light back to the world? Switch version reviewed. Review copy provided by company for testing purposes.

A city builder for people that don't necessarily like city building games, Dawnfolk is utterly charming and a joy to play. Managing your resources is easy to get to grips with, and with plenty of challenges to play through, there's a lot to love here.

The survival city-building genre is generally considered to be quite intimidating with high hour counts for even just one scenario and incredibly in-depth mechanics that will take multiple attempts even to begin grasping. This is where Dawnfolk makes an effort to differ from the usual fare, making use of familiar mechanics and easily comprehensible visual design to make a survival game that is still difficult but not so unapproachable.

Dawnfolk makes for a fun casual city-building experience in a genre usually restricted to hardcore gamers.