FAQ

[B3rean]

What is Settlement Survival?

Settlement Survival is a challenging city-builder that invites you to lead a group of survivors in search of a new home. Feeling broody? Raise thousands of citizens. Want to be greedy? Earn as many coins as you can get. Land getting in your way? Dig up the hills, ditches, and rivers to your liking.

It’s all in your hand; make your choice.

How do I find my save files?

C:\Users\USERNAME\AppData\LocalLow\SZSS INTERACTIVE\Settlement Survival

^ where USERNAME means the name of the administrator.

How do I email?

[e-mail] for business
[e-mail] for feedback or bug reports. If you have save files to send, zip them and email.

When is Settlement Survival coming out?

The full game is now available on Steam since October 24th 2022! Previously we launched into Early Access on October 11th 2021.

Will there be a demo?

The demo version is currently unavailable due to technical issues.

What are the planned platforms?

Settlement Survival is available for Windows and Mac on Steam for right now. We’ll keep you posted on plans for other platforms.

In which languages will the game be localized?

We have 12 languages currently supported: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Russian, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese, Italian, Polish, Portuguese – Brazil, Turkish, Korean.

What was the Settlement Survival developers’ inspiration?

We came out with some ideas after reading the book Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared Diamond. Referring to Easter Island, Vikings on Greenland, and the Black Plague, we try to tell some stories about how human civilizations collapse in extreme environments and how people survive. The players can explore many avenues to keep the residents alive.

Obviously, we were inspired for the game mechanics by classics like Banished.

Who is working on Settlement Survival?

We were founded in April 2020 as Gleamer Studio, by gamers who set their life goal to making great games. We are committed to bringing happy and fun times to our players. Eventually, we aim to tell a good story about all the shining sparks within human nature.

Can I help you with your project?

Any help and advice would be gratefully received. You can help in being an active member of the community either in the Steam forums or on our discord[discord.gg]. Please share your feedback, suggestions and bug reports. You can also follow us on our socials (check the links post).

The best help you can give us is to play our game and enjoy yourself :)

How long is the game?

City-builder games like Settlement Survival are hard to define in terms of how long to play... The longest record by a tester is 800 hours! We are confident that you will have many hours of gameplay experience to enjoy.

Is it replayable?

Yes. We offer several modes with different maps and you can choose difficulty whatever you want. With the variable modes, settings, and difficulty levels, Settlement Survival is a game that you can play many times over!

What engine are you using?

Unity.

Is there multiplayer, co-op, how does it work?

Not right now.

Will there be modding support?

Yes, there is modding support through the Steam Workshop.

Will there be achievements?

Yes! We have many achievements to explore.

Does your game have gamepad support?

We currently don’t support gamepads but it is under development.

What are the system requirements?

The operating system is at least Windows 7 (64 bit) with 1 GB available space. The minimum requirement of hardware is I3-2100-3GHZ 2 Core Processor and 4 GB RAM memory. Plus a graphics card comparable or better than an NVIDIA GeForce GTX-650 1GB.

Can I remap controls?

Yes you can. There’s plenty more settings you can modify too.

Does it support Ultrawide monitors?

Yes.

Does it run at 60 FPS?

Of course, even with thousands of citizens, especially if you have decent hardware.

Does it support 4K?

We are supporting 4K. If there are any problems, please contact us.

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Thanks for reading. Let us know if there are any burning questions missing, and we'll update appropriately.

[Nishikawa]

I appreciate the preparation of Japanese, so I want to play the demo for 800 hours until the EA.
https://settlement-survival.seesaa.net/

[melodelic]

Will there be a discord server set up eventually? It'll be nice to have an area specifically to do suggestions or for help. Also an area to submit words that have been translated weirdly would be nice as well.

[thelefthorse]

Originally posted by melodelic:

Will there be a discord server set up eventually? It'll be nice to have an area specifically to do suggestions or for help. Also an area to submit words that have been translated weirdly would be nice as well.

Please no to moving the discussion hub over to Discord. Everything you just mentioned wanting to do on Discord can be done just as easily right here in the forums, and better still, no one has to create another account on another platform.

I know a lot of folks like Discord, but there are just as many of us (if not more) who rely on these forums and have no interest in toggling between two platforms just to find out what is in development--or under discussion--for the EA game we've bought.

Obviously I mean no disrespect whatsoever, but I think it's important for devs to realize not everyone thinks shifting the communication locus from Steam to another platform is a good idea.

[shadoza]

I purchased the EA version after trying the Demo. Since I have been burned by purchasing early access before, I want to ask, maybe beg: Please, do not change the game so much that it because something different that what I purchased. I understand that ea means somethings are still being developed, but when one purchases a sim type game, it should never turn into a fighting game or a FPS game.

[Myron_Owl]

Originally posted by melodelic:

Will there be a discord server set up eventually? It'll be nice to have an area specifically to do suggestions or for help. Also an area to submit words that have been translated weirdly would be nice as well.

https://discord.gg/6Myfkc6jJZ

[Rumi]

Is there a multi-player in planning? Like that you could develop a city together with your friends online. That would be neat!

[insertstupidnamehere3]

does it only work on Windows? or on mac os and linux as well?

[B3rean]

Originally posted by insertstupidnamehere3:

does it only work on Windows? or on mac os and linux as well?

Windows is supported, and we are working on the Mac and Linux versions.

[whiteTAT]

全面发展成就，科技到了100级也没有完成

[mistresswitch]

Hi, I'd love to support a new development studio & the game looks great :) Can you tell us some more about your studio? You're relatively new, congrats on this new title; but new recruits in this industry is awesome!!
Please tell us more about Gleamer Studio :)

[天童アリス]

万圣节更新后，马和阿米娅都不能用了，要么是马进了市集就消失要么是只有个模型，人还是推着手推车走，运量一次只有250

[Ready2produce]

As to providing a Demo: Not necessary ... player contribution is all that is necessary.

I recommend a pinned thread (not discord) to monitor / advise player contribution.

Always wise to to monitor all Steam 'Settlement Survivor' discussions threads.

As this is a Banished type game: Take full advantage of the Banished guides.

(i. e. point to the Banished guides applicable to 'Settlement Survivor' game play.)

[时空0瞬杀]

大清理那个成就要怎么完成？清理掉地图上所有石矿和铁矿，是指地图上散落的资源还是矿井啊？矿井的话升级到了深层矿井就是无限的怎么清理掉？不是很明白这个要求，望解答。

[Ready2produce]

Posting here because there is no pinned 'Game design' thread.

Started 'Early Easy play' guide ... need to access files from game while playing!

Using a 'research' game to generate images and text for the guide.

Taking a lot longer to create content because I have to exit the game to make notes.

Please add: 'Full screen' setting that allows access to the Windows Taskbar.

Believe me, that is a very tiny change to coding ... programmer just needs to know its there.

[Zangdar]

Hello dev,

I am a new player. in the 2nd and 3rd tutorial, I found polishings to be done in the French language. See the screenshots:

screen 1/ polishing french
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691318513
in the bubble of tutorial 2, I advise to 1) change "l'la" to "la" + 2) change "Ouvrez Transformation" to "Ouvrez Production" as the name translated in the menu

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screen 2/ polishing french
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691318570
in the bubble of tutorial 2, I advise to change "Ouvrez Traitement" to "Ouvrez Production" as the name translated in the menu

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screen 3/ polishing french
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691411651
in the bubble of tutorial 3, I advise to change "Ouvrez Traitement" to "Ouvrez Production" as the name translated in the menu

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screen 4/ polishing french
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691411619
in the bubble of tutorial 3, I advise to change "Construisez un navire de pêche" to "Construisez un quai de pêche" as the name translated in the menu

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screen 5/ polishing french
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691411742
in the bubble of tutorial 3, I advise to change "embarcadère" to "ferry" (twice) as the name translated in the menu

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screen 6/ maybe debug?
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2691411700
in the bubble of tutorial 3, the boards produced by the hydraulic sawmill do unlock the construction boards stage, as for the regular sawmill, or not?

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cheers and have fun!