Hearth and Hamlet

Hearth and Hamlet starts with a campfire and a quiet camp on the frontier, and slowly turns it into a kingdom. It's a cozy clicker city-builder set in a medieval pixel-art world with lakes, rivers, magical swamps and faraway lands. You assign villagers to gather food, wood, stone and gold, then spend those resources on buildings that go from simple tents to taverns, castles, magic academies and defenses. Food keeps the population healthy as it grows. Upgrades feed a research tree that permanently unlocks new buildings, policies and magic, including alchemy labs. Running the town matters as much as growing it. You set laws for taxes, worker rules that affect morale, guard drafts and other civic choices that change how your kingdom works. Trade routes with other lands bring in what your own terrain can't, and you can recruit soldiers to protect it all. The game is built to be relaxing and to reward patience and planning, so it moves at your pace. It's from Phorust Studios and came out on Steam in August 2026. It suits players who like city-builders and idle games in equal measure.