Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt

Your citizens' mood is a line item in the budget. Keep the Townies fed and content enough to reach the tavern in the evening and they work harder and hand over more tax; squeeze them too hard and the whole economy sags. That is the knot Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt keeps pulling on, across more than 150 buildings and production chains that turn ore into ingots and grain into bread. Seasons make you stockpile before winter. Fires, plague, and bandit raids tend to show up right when your surplus finally looks comfortable, which is when watchtowers stop feeling optional. The tutorial plus a limited trial of one scenario and a sandbox map cost nothing, and the full version is a single premium purchase with no ads interrupting the work. Sandbox is there if you'd rather skip the missions and just watch a town breathe.