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A survival city-building game with flying cities. Build, automate, and defend a flying city that travels between procedurally generated maps to survive in a wacky, nightmare-infested, post-apocalyptic world full of strange science and dreams.

Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a city builder, survival and automation game developed by Suncrash and published by Suncrash and Gamirror Games.
Released on May 09th 2024 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, German, Simplified Chinese, Russian, Japanese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 578 reviews of which 431 were positive and 147 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified Dream Engines: Nomad Cities into these genres:

City Builder Survival Automation Sandbox Procedural Generation RPG Strategy Simulation Management Base-Building Tower Defense Steampunk Post-apocalyptic Rogue-lite Crafting Resource Management Sci-fi Open World Atmospheric Economy

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64-bit
Processor: 3.0 Ghz Dual Core CPU
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 11 GPU with 2GB of memory (GTX 660 or better)
DirectX: Version 11

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104 hours played

May 2026

This game is good, and for some weird reason there is a lot of reviews complaining that its not like other games? Like yes, that's the whole point of it being a different game. There is 2 problems with this game, only 1 being permanent, other being a challenge. - Map exploration/clearing is extremely tedious and repetitive/boring/slow. There is practically no way to speed this up at any point in the game. - The learning curve is extremely steep and it does NOT ease you into it. You will find yourself having to start anew multiple times to get the optimal snowball required for how fast difficulty scales. The balance of this game is extremely poor in that respect. Seems most players have been expecting more passive/casual gameplay like factorio and Riftbreaker or like Against the Storm where theres 0 consequence for failing/taking too long on 1 Map to have consequences. Yeah not in this game. However once you get past that learning curve. You can have fun in this game.

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25 hours played

April 2026

I will recommend it because I had good enough time. But the game has some issues with dragging on near the end and a strange upgrade system. People who like to replay these types of games and challenge themselves maybe won't feel it as much. But for me I couldn't really finish the game because of these things. 1. The way building upgrades work, especially with power, flux and workers is... weird. It is almost always more efficient to just spam low lvl buildings instead of upgrading them. Sure, you can't take them with you but at the same time taking upgraded power buildings seems like a waste since they consume so much more power/resources and workers with the advanced recipes. And I mean it. Base power plant with the default recipe will require 3 workers to produce 10 power. While an upgraded building with an advanced recipe will require 24 workers and produce 60 power - you see where the problem is? I found it very counterintuitive. I want to make my city better but at the same time I felt like the game was penalizing me for it. Very weird system. 2. Enemies, waves, defending. It worked great at the start and in the middle but near the end it started to be a slog. You can't really rebuild your towers on every map, so you have to take them with you. Which means dragging each individual tower onto your platform and off it after you arrive. This takes longer than it should. Add to it clearing the map from enemies at the start of each map and it becomes very tedious to change maps in later game, especially with the enemies seeming to scale faster than your weapons (I guess you could do better than me, but it was my experience. And if you wanted to just quickly jump between maps to get one specific resource - it feels even worse. Overall an interesting concept and good enough time. But I would like to see some improvements. Like an ability to move towers in bulk at least. I guess changing how upgrades work is not really something that can be done when the game was already released.

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392 hours played

Oct. 2025

I love everything about this game. Difficulty levels, tech tree and general progression mechanic, restart system (flying from location to location starting "new"), CONVEYORS!, expeditions, all kind of upgrades and pleasant graphic design.

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101 hours played

July 2025

I recommend the game — it’s probably fun for at least 40 hours. After that, it starts to get a bit boring because it’s a pain to start a new map and have to explore everything and kill all the enemies again. There should be some way to build scouts or allied troops to help with exploration. I get lazy to move to a new map just because I have to explore everything from scratch. But overall, the game is very well made. I didn’t encounter any bugs, so I do recommend it.

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137 hours played

July 2025

City builder, colony sim, RPG-lite, tower defense, factory sim... all rolled into one. If you like tedium and multitasking, it's great. If you're looking for another factory sim as an alternative to building a mega factory like Factorio or Satisfactory, move on. The game will challenge and push you to constantly min-max, micromanage resources, redo your layout between each landing. Then force you off the map before you reach whatever milestone you're hoping for. I enjoyed it. This game is definitely in a niche of its own.

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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.

No, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.

Yes, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities received 431 positive votes out of a total of 578 achieving a rating of 7.09.

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Dream Engines: Nomad Cities was developed by Suncrash and published by Suncrash and Gamirror Games.

Yes, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is playable and fully supported on Windows.

No, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is not playable on MacOS.

No, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is not playable on Linux.

Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is a single-player game.

Yes, there is a DLC available for Dream Engines: Nomad Cities. Explore additional content available for Dream Engines: Nomad Cities on Steam.

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No, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities does not support Steam Remote Play.

Yes, Dream Engines: Nomad Cities is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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Suncrash

Publisher

Suncrash, Gamirror Games

Release 09 May 2024

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