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Steam listing data
Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing
Hearth and Hamlet released on Steam on 19 August 2026 from Phorust Studios, published by Runic Forge and Gamersky Games. It is a cozy incremental citybuilder in pixel art, and its pitch is neat: from campfire to kingdom.
Building is only the beginning
You gather resources, assign workers and construct buildings, turning a quiet frontier camp into a thriving kingdom one decision at a time.
Phorust are explicit that the second half is where it gets interesting — as your settlement grows, managing it becomes just as important as expanding it. That is the distinction between a clicker and a citybuilder, and this one is aiming at both.
Laws and policies, not just buildings
The management layer runs on laws and policies you set to shape how the kingdom develops. That is an unusual system for an incremental game, where progression is normally just numbers climbing.
Policy choices give the growth a direction you chose rather than one the upgrade tree chose for you — closer to a light 4X than to a idle clicker, at least in intent.
A generous accessibility and feature set
The listing includes Steam Achievements and Family Sharing, and it ships on Windows and Linux — Linux support being genuinely useful for Steam Deck players, and uncommon at this price.
Localisation is broad for a small studio: English, Simplified Chinese, German, Japanese and Russian among others.
Twelve store screenshots suggest a reasonably substantial build rather than a thin early release. Steam genre tags are Casual, Simulation and Strategy.
Where the incremental label fits
Worth setting expectations. This is described as an incremental citybuilder, so the loop is accumulation and automation rather than tight tactical decisions. If you want a city sim with terrain challenges and logistics puzzles, that is a different genre.
What it does offer is a magic-filled medieval world revealed steadily as you grow — discovery paced against progression, which is the right structure for the format.
Seven nineteen at launch
Hearth and Hamlet is on Steam at $7.99. The launch discount has ended and this is the standard price, verified on 6 September 2026.
Around seven dollars for a pixel-art citybuilder with a policy layer, achievements and Linux support is fair value. The audience is clear enough: if you like watching a settlement grow while you do something else, and want a little more control than a pure clicker offers, this sits in that gap deliberately.
Full details are on the official Steam store page.
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