Foundation - Ep #1

Foundation is indulgent. It's about doing what you want, which is to say building a sweet little medieval economy, without much else getting in the way. Soaking in bubbles, by way of building bakeries and shearing sheep.

Foundation is a halfway house between the more intimate scale of a Settlers game and the god's eye view of something like Cities: Skylines. We're talking citizens in the low hundreds, but still being able to 'paint' sizeable sections of an enormous, picture-book-pretty map as residential, farming or harvesting hotspots.

In terms of theme, this is how many management-strategy boats are rocked: zero. We're talking wheat farms and windmills, mines and market stalls, in harmlessly pristine and clean cod-Medieval fashion. The worst thing that can happen in this evergreen Disneyland is that somebody leaves town in a bit of huff because there weren't enough berries for their 318th consecutive meal of berries and berries alone, or that the pew-to-bums ratio in your tiny church had grown insufficient as population swelled.