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Foundation

A New Era of Organic City-Building Simulation!

Foundation 1.0 Is Now Available!

Hello everyone!

The time has finally arrived… Foundation has officially left Early Access and version 1.0 is now available!

After 6 years of new features, bug fixes and improving the game, with the help of your feedback, we are proud to finally wrap up Foundation’s incredible journey in Early Access! 

Since the last major update, we have worked tirelessly to bring you the game we envisioned and the game that you want to see and play. The full release comes with a huge number of changes, so many in fact that it may seem like a whole new game! 

So what is new? Well, grab a medieval drink and snacks while the game updates, and we’ll take a look through the patch notes.

New And Updated Content

New Main Menu And Rulesets
The first thing you will see is an overhauled main menu that now includes rulesets! Customise your new games using a selection of adjustable rules. If you prefer to play a more relaxed and creative game or maybe you are looking to challenge yourself with a higher difficulty, then you can now do so.

All New Heraldry System
Display your banner with pride! You can now create and customise your village with the new Coat of Arms editor.

Revamped Aspirations
Will you dedicate your efforts to building a thriving priory or craft a magnificent stronghold to win the King’s favour? Choose an Aspiration to uncover new ways to play, challenging you to create a unique and distinctive village.

New And Improved Villager Residential Tiers
Residential housing has been revamped for a more seamless and organic experience. Not only that, you can now expand your city further with the highest density and quality residential tiers, allowing for more village customisation options.

Improved Progression System
Unlock content more seamlessly and enjoyably with a refined progression system, adding depth and strategic opportunities to your city-building adventure. We have also removed the estate tradeoff, so you can now concentrate on a single estate or aim to keep everyone happy. 

Each estate has a different focus, whether that be a focus on Kingdom Military rewards, Labour estate taxation or improving trade relations via the Clergy pathway. The choice is yours!

New Onboarding Experience
Whether a new player or a veteran, the updated onboarding quests and visual aids are now easier to follow, helping everyone find a perfect start to their village.

New Military System And Castle Monument
Take on new challenges with a refreshed military system that will have you create Companies that you can send abroad and have them bring back precious resources and gold coins. 

Of course, these Military Companies need a new home fit for a King and what better home than a Castle! As with all other Monuments, you can release your creativity, building and customising your Castle from various parts!

New And Improved Walls
Walls are now fully integrated into the building system. Plan and build your walls to add fortification coverage to your village. Some buildings require fortification coverage to function.

Patrols And Fortifications
Alongside the new buildable walls, you will also discover Watchtowers and Guard placements adding further fortification options to your settlement. 

Medium-density residential tiers now require consistent patrol coverage. Patrols can be formed from a City Watch in the Labour estate or task your Military with the job of keeping your village secure.

Paved Roads
Meet the needs of the new high-tier housing with our new paved road mechanic, tailored to support your most developed areas. A new paint tool is now available to give you full control of where you wish paved roads to be created.

Extendable Buildings
Some workplaces, such as the Woodcutter Camp, Warehouse, and Stonemason, can now be extended with new parts to increase storage, worker slots and more!

More Building Customisation
Most Monuments can now have their roof colour customised to your liking, giving you even more options on how your Monuments look. Additionally, some building parts come with varying cosmetics and can be easily switched while editing with the new part-switcher feature. 

Enhanced UI
We have significantly streamlined the user interface throughout the game. From a new main menu, progression tree, and tooltips to an improved Book giving you in-depth information about your village as well as a massively overhauled Monument design experience. All implemented to improve gameplay and enhance your city-building efficiency.

Monument building has taken on a new level allowing you to move and replace parts with minimum fuss as well as customise your Monuments in a seamless experience.

Enjoy A Completely Revamped Art Direction!

Dynamic Environment Overhaul
Your Cities will now take on a completely new look and feel so that you can experience Foundation in a whole new way. Enhanced map creation, refined lighting, map edges, and major environmental changes all bring more depth and immersion to your city-building experience.

Revamped Art and Assets
Discover updated visuals to all buildings, including an elaborate new Manor House and the brand new Castle Monument. With more detail and realism for every building, your cities will be the talk of the realm!

New and Improved Animations
Zoom in to your Woodcutters as they fell trees, watch your Villagers idle in their free time or follow your Hunters as they search for prey. All new and enhanced animations bring your Villagers to life, adding even greater immersion to your cities. 

New Cosmetic Time of Day Switcher
Switch between night and day to see your village come to life during the darker hours.

New Photo Mode
The new photo mode allows you to capture in-game moments to keep for yourself or share with the community. Don’t forget to tag us on social media when you share your creations.

Will I Still Be Able to Play My Old Cities?

Early Access Saves
Due to the huge changes to the game, save files from early access will not be compatible with the full release version. However, if you wish to continue your Cities from Early Access you can access the old 1.9 version in the Steam betas options. 

Note: The older 1.9 version will unlikely receive updates and may be closed at some point in the future.

Demo saves
Demo saves can be continued in the full release version.

Modding

Mods will require updating and, as such, will not be available for the release out of Early Access. We will be working closely with Mod creators in the coming weeks to update their mods, as well as open up new modding features in the future.

Supported Languages

The following languages will be officially supported on release: 

  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Japanese
  • Portuguese (Brazilian)
  • Russian
  • Spanish
  • Chinese (Simplified) 

More languages are being translated on Crowdin with the help of the community. These will be added to the game as they hit the translation threshold for integration. If you would like to help with translating the game into your language, please head over to Crowdin and sign up, all help is very much appreciated. 

What’s Next for Foundation

This is far from the end of the road for Foundation. We will continue to add to Foundation with free quality of life updates, bug fixes and further improvements to the game, as well as modding features and tools. 

Beyond the full release, we also have exciting DLC content planned, with more details to be revealed in upcoming announcements.

If you encounter any issues with this new release, please join us on our Discord server and let us know. We always appreciate your feedback and bug reports, and we aim to address any new issues ASAP.

Thank You To All Our Supporters!

To all our early access supporters, we extend our heartfelt thanks! Your invaluable feedback over the years has been instrumental in shaping the game. We deeply appreciate your unwavering support, thoughtful insights, and kind words. Thank you for fostering a warm and welcoming community, for playtesting countless iterations, and for being an essential part of this incredible journey with us!

A number of you have asked how you can support us further, which means so much to us! We have created a supporter pack that you can upgrade/buy on our store page. The supporter pack includes a special building: the Guivre Garden +  the original Foundation soundtrack. The Guivre Garden contains 18 parts including a main statue plus 3 secondary statues, giving you even more options to embellish your city.

Thank you all once again and we hope you enjoy the new update!

The Whole Polymorph Games Team

 

Polymorph Games

 

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