The Wandering Village is such a sweet idea for a city-builder, taking place on the back of a huge walking creature. It's in Early Access with Linux / Steam Deck support and a big new update just arrived.
11 bit studios have announced today that their popular city building survival strategy game Frostpunk from 2018 is getting a remake in Unreal Engine 5.
Of life and Land has been in Early Access for just over a year now, and it's about to cross over the finishing line as Metaroot and Kerzoven have announced the 1.0 launch for May 16th.
dotAGE is a very unique turn-based village builder that blends in roguelike survival elements. It's one that you should definitely add to your list, and a new DLC expansion is out now so I took the chance to speak to the developer a bit.
Paradox and Colossal Order have announced that to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Cities: Skylines that both the original and sequel are getting updates (and of course more DLC).
11 bit studios latest game Frostpunk 2 was recently rated Steam Deck Playable by Valve, with the developer noting they are working towards getting it bumped up to Verified.
Dawnfolk from developer Darenn Keller is absolutely lovely, a minimalist survival city-builder with each tile having a little mini-game. Really unique and one you need to keep an eye on.
Texel Raptor are moving on from Parkitect now and they recently revealed Croakwood, a relaxed town building simulation game about frogs and nature that looks simply wonderful.
Dawnfolk (previously called Lueur and the Dim Settlers) is a very promising minimalist survival city-builder, one that suckered me in with the various mini-games in every tile you build and it's looking great.
Since I'm a big fan of stuff like Dorfromantik I've been keeping an eye on TerraScape, which just added controller support and they say Steam Deck support is planned too.