73%Strong matchWinter
75%34175% positive reviews, Mostly Positive across 341 reviews·Exploration · Mythology
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In a dark study with a Book of Worlds and a handful of wooden buildings, you are cursed to build until you've unlocked the secrets of your mysterious past. This is a score-based strategy game using city-builder mechanics.
Weeks Till Winter
Steam
Weeks Till Winter is a strategy game about placing buildings on grid-like 3D terrain to maximize resource and population gains. Resource management is minimalistic, but skilled play requires careful planning and deep game knowledge. With 7 different procedurally generated worlds, each playthrough offers a unique experience. Or play casually in free-build mode, without time or resource constraints, to make something interesting and beautiful.

Each building placement spends a week, and the passing of weeks leads to the passing of seasons. Build placements can be undone and retried within a season to maximize gains. Importantly, some building arrangements trigger bonus structures, generating extra resources, and creating a multitude of possibilities for any given turn.

As your population grows, you can expand to new terrain providing additional resources and space for more complex structures. You must take care, however, as ruins of a failed civilization lie scattered about. When winter comes, nearby altars stir, unleashing terrors upon your city which can only be held back by heat and flame.

Acquire special items to boost population gains, enhance resource production, or destroy altars and winter terrors. Any item can be used without spending any time, but such actions cannot be undone. Use these tools wisely to reach the highest levels of renown.

The game includes nearly 20 challenge maps in addition to the randomized worlds, and also provides the level editor used to create those challenge maps. Unleash your imagination to create your own custom worlds!

Along the way, you will discover fragmentary manuscripts from the failed civilization that preceded you. Through voice-acted journal entries, fables, and historical records, you can piece together the forgotten lore that explains this world.

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