Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Welcome to the mystical world of Kainga, an unusual roguelite village-builder! Take control of a Thinker and, with the help of your people, grow a unique town to complete short challenges while discovering the world and adapting to the pressures of the environment, beasts and other tribes.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a city builder, rogue-lite and indie game developed by Erik Rempen and published by Silk Softworks.
Released on December 06th 2022 is available only on Windows in 7 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Simplified Chinese, Polish and Russian.

It has received 736 reviews of which 582 were positive and 154 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 16.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 3.96€ on Gamivo.

The Steam community has classified Kainga: Seeds of Civilization into these genres:

City Builder Rogue-lite Indie Singleplayer Old School Strategy God Game Stylized Resource Management Hand-drawn 2.5D Procedural Generation Management Fantasy Isometric Colorful Early Access Base-Building Rogue-like Deckbuilding

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows
  • OS *: Windows Vista, 7, 8/8.1, 10
  • Processor: Dual Core CPU, Intel i5 or better
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM
  • Graphics: 512MB VRAM, OpenGL 3.0 support
  • Storage: 2 GB available space
  • Additional Notes: Have Fun!

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March 2025
A brief overview. Nice game for those who play for emotions but not for result. This game is fairly easy. If you are looking for challenge, competition, balance or smart AI, you better skip this game. But - if you merely enjoy to be a part of some weird world - if you want to be amused by unstandard setting - if you want to see surprising mechanics in every location (except starting two) - if you like visiting zoo or historical museums IRL You should give this game a chance. I almost dropped Kainga at the beginning, but after several hours I understood the point and unlocked a couple of interesting things. Now I confidently recommend this hidden gem for you.
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Feb. 2025
It's a very interesting game. It surprises me with its events, I think the developer has achieved something special. The game has a natural feeling, a spirit of its own. But it also has many bugs. I would like the developer to make a bigger expansion or a game with similar content but on a bigger level
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Dec. 2024
It's a charming game with a really unique art style. A rogue-like city builder that has an addictive gameplay loop. There are some issues and bugs that are a little annoying, but there usually is a work around. Such as, your people getting stuck on ladders or certain terrain. Pathfinding is another area where you have to be very careful with your play. I played around these issues and had a great time. As I understand is, it is a solo developer and just want to say well done on such an enjoyable game.
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Oct. 2024
Super creative and fun city building roguelike! I love that there are so many fantastical creatures, and the fact that you can just tame these goliaths is pretty alluring. The roguelike elements work way better in a city builder than I expected. You basically place down your campfire, which gives you a range to build in, and unlock a house type that gives different buffs to your village. Your thinker can then explore the map to discover new buildings that produce food, resources, or trains villagers into soldiers. When you finish a game, you get karma, which you can use to unlock more buildings to find in your games. There are several creative areas to unlock, each with different building strategies, and there are several different thinkers you can unlock to play as. Each thinker has a loadout of festivals that have useful abilities for your village! I experienced a handful of bugs, but for the most part the game is very polished and runs well. For the developer reading, here are some bugs I encountered so far. I had an enemy attack me and build ladders on my land, and I was unable to destroy or deconstruct the ladders, and the villagers got stuck on them and bricked their path finding. The ability to destroy or deconstruct any building would probably be enough to fix this. I also had build a floating platform that happened to be near a cliff. The villagers routed to the top of the cliff instead of crossing the platform when I tried to have them cross, and the platform was not able to be deconstructed. There is also a bug where when you put villagers or soldiers on a strider with a platform, and have them jump off, the rider's icon does not clear from the menu. This doesn't stop the functionality, it just makes it very confusing. Purely a visual bug. I also had one round with an inexplicable lag spike, but I couldn't figure out the cause. The village was not large, I didn't see anything crazy going on, and after a few minutes the lag went away. I have seen the occasional floating enemy units, but that doesn't really bug me. This may sound like a lot of bugs but honestly they are not very common from my experience so far, so do not let this list of bugs deter you from trying this game.
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Sept. 2024
This game is fantastic. Until it sucks. It's a wild ride with such highs and lows. I'd give it a solid B- at this point. A neutral rating if I could. It would be a straight up A game, amazing in so many ways, if it weren't for the absolute awful UI implementation for an otherwise very polished game. It's so frustrating at times. You'll lose a ridiculous amount of runs simply due to the UI. It's so mind bogglingly bad at times that I wonder how the developer even plays the game without noticing. Selecting units? Awful. Selecting multiple units? Nearly impossible. Want to find where your warrior has wandered off to? Literally impossible without wasting dozens of minutes scouring the map. There are SO MANY quality of life improvements games have implemented a decade+ before this one came out, so it leaves me astounded that they were left out of this one. Pathing problems too, though not quite as game breaking. With all of these glaring faults, I'm still 20+ hours into the game because it's so good otherwise. I just hope hope HOPE that the developer works on polishing the last little bits to make this a knockout, slam dunk game for the ages. Also, priests are miserable to deal with. The enemy can use them to perfection. Meanwhile, I try and attack the one that is converting my unit and can't get ANYONE in my squads to go poke them due to pathing/UI issues. But when I have a priest of my own and try to convert an enemy? The AI can poke them without issue, making priests basically useless for players and overwhelmingly difficult to deal with in return. Hate them with a passion.
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Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is currently priced at 16.99€ on Steam.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 16.99€ on Steam.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization received 582 positive votes out of a total of 736 achieving a rating of 7.51.
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Kainga: Seeds of Civilization was developed by Erik Rempen and published by Silk Softworks.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is not playable on MacOS.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is not playable on Linux.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization is a single-player game.

There are 3 DLCs available for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization. Explore additional content available for Kainga: Seeds of Civilization on Steam.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization does not support Steam Remote Play.

Kainga: Seeds of Civilization 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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Kainga: Seeds of Civilization
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