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Founders' Fortune

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2020

Should you play it?

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

What works

  • Engaging colony management
  • Creative building and customization
  • Charming visuals and sound
  • Emergent social dynamics
  • Active developer support and modding

Things to keep in mind

  • Some combat and ai issues
  • Slow early game progression
  • Limited map size
  • Micromanagement can be tedious
  • Lack of deep tutorial

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Stonehearth

  • Dinkum

  • Pathless Woods

  • Catizens

  • Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

  • Don't get lost

Less intimate

Games that feels like Founders' Fortune but with less focus on close relationships

  • Solargene

  • Havendock

  • Going Medieval

  • Mercury Fallen

  • Surviving Mars

  • Aven Colony

Less survival-focused

Games that feels like Founders' Fortune but with less survival pressure

  • Staxel

  • A World of Keflings

  • Coral Island

  • STORY OF SEASONS: Grand Bazaar

  • STORY OF SEASONS: Pioneers of Olive Town

  • Song Of The Prairie

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
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  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Founders' Fortune: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Intimacy, Survival.

Last update: 03/08/2026