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Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?
Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a strategy, city builder and resource management game
developed by Quite OK Games
and published by Quite OK Games and Future Friends Games.
Released on February 27th 2026 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 11 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Ukrainian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Traditional Chinese and Italian.
It has received 1,435 reviews of which 1,162 were positive and 273 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.8 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Laysara: Summit Kingdom into these genres:
Strategy
City Builder
Resource Management
Colony Sim
Building
Real-Time with Pause
Base Building
Management
Simulation
Immersive Sim
Singleplayer
Automation
Economy
Atmospheric
Survival
Sandbox
Nature
Difficult
Indie
Early Access
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Laysara: Summit Kingdom:
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 (64 bit)
- Processor: Quad Core Processor
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce GTX 660 equivalent
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 12 GB available space
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Very fun, very challenging. There's many production chains to learn and figuring out the layouts were so satisfying. It's like a mountain focused Anno with a lot of min maxxing. There's also sandbox and easier difficulties if relaxing is more your thing. I had a friend say the music was very peaceful and she never had played the game before. I do not understand the review bombing this game is receiving as it used to have overwhelming positive. A lot of them sound like skill issues. It reminds me when Anno 1800, a lot of new players were struggling with the steel production. It just takes a lot of learning of what is efficient. I was happy with my time spent. Whether I was wanting some peace after work. Or challenging scenarios on my days off.
Unlike many modern city builders, the game avoids warfare entirely. Everything revolves around economy, planning, and environmental survival. That makes the pacing calmer than games like Frostpunk , but also more methodical. If you enjoy optimization-heavy management games, this is where Laysara: Summit Kingdom shines. However, the game is not without frustrations. Space is intentionally restrictive, especially on later maps. Some players and reviewers note that the limited building areas can make advanced production chains feel cramped and overly demanding. Certain systems—particularly late-game logistics and pasture placement—can become tedious rather than challenging. Unique vertical city-building mechanics. Excellent atmosphere and mountain visuals. Deep logistics and transportation systems. Avalanche hazards create meaningful strategic pressure. Relaxed focus on economy instead of combat. Tight map space can become frustrating. Late-game management occasionally turns repetitive. Slow pacing may not appeal to everyone. Some UI and workflow systems still feel rough around the edges. Laysara: Summit Kingdom succeeds because it commits fully to its mountain-survival concept. It does not try to imitate every other colony sim on the market. The terrain itself becomes the main enemy, and overcoming it feels genuinely rewarding. For fans of thoughtful logistics-heavy builders like Anno 1800 , Banished , or Against the Storm , this is an easy recommendation. Players looking for fast-paced expansion or combat-driven strategy may find it too slow and restrictive. A fresh and highly atmospheric city builder that transforms mountain survival into a rewarding strategic challenge. 8/10 DISASTER | BAD | MEDIOCRE | OKAY | GOOD | GREAT |AMAZING| MASTERPIECE Reviewed on: Win11 Home 64-bit, Intel i5-11600K, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB PRIME, 32GB DDR4-3600 RAM, 2 x Kingston NV1 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD, Internet Broadband 1000/1000 Mbit If you like this review, then please consider giving it a thumbs up. I've also reviewed other games that you might find interesting. If so please follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/27418263/] Top of the Chart.
>want to buy Cities Skylines 2 >mixed rating, expensive ripoff, infinity DLCs, crashing >meh >look at Laysara >it is cute >cute makes me happy Thank you Laysara, very cool. Buy the soundtrack too! EDIT: idk why this is 50% off on launch day, I actually would have paid full price for this, but I guess I'll just yoink this. Btw. the highest difficulty is really hard and takes a lot of min-maxing. You constantly need to rebuild older parts of the city, which become too inefficient lategame and wages are high too, so overproduction will wreck you economy. This is not the kind of city-builder where you can go off of your own imagination and build whatever, it's more of an autistic puzzle game where you optimise every resource usage you have, including the very limited space on the mountain (you play tetris with buildings a lot). Missions will throw new requirements at you and force you to accommodate a new production line for something. If you're not completely dumb, the way you naturally build the city will often align with the mission objectives, but it's usually a good idea to not build anything more than what is absolutely needed in order to complete your current objective, because otherwise you might have to rebuild a lot. EDIT 2: I am now on Mission 14 on the hardest difficulty. We returned to a map from a previous mission with my city exactly as I finished it, but the game now demands that I destroy parts of an older city where I already built a summit temple, in order to extract a different resource to transfer to another mountain and make things more efficient. It was really hard to get a gold balance of +500 there on an earlier mission, I spent a lot of time optimizing things already, and now I have to mess it all up because the game wouldn't give me the better tools for optimization earlier? Really unfun and rubs me the wrong way, because it feels like my earlier efforts were for nothing. EDIT 3: I built my 3rd summit temple in mission 15 and "finished" the main campaign on the hardest difficulty in 75 hours total. It was really hard. Had to rebuild more than half the city in the final mission, twice. I spent 5 days on just the last 2 missions. Although the campaign ended here, there's still more content! The game enters "sandbox" mode after this, but it's really more of an extended campaign. There's 7 more summit temples to build and bunch of more settlements on smaller mountains. The economy of all of these settlements is interconnected in the world-map via trading! You can sell stuff on one mountain and the amount you sell becomes available on any other mountain from a trading post. Tech evolution is also shared! Each summit temple you build lets you share tech levels on other subsequent mountains, so with 3 temples I could start the next temple with level 3 tech already! However, you will still want to scale up slowly, because higher tech level means the population will have higher standards of living too. If anybody ever takes the time to 100% this game, they need to be institutionalised and studied.
It's less a city-building game than a puzzle game that happens to feature city-builder's elements. Laysara is very far-fetched from Cities:Skylines or SimCity, or any other free-form city builder, It's more akin to an Anno-like, (Or, if you prefer, Caesar-like) type of game, with leveling up citizen-buildings and managing thier different climbing needs. And while you can call most Anno games city-builders, Laysara leans even heavier into space-constrained management. So much so that down the line of campaign progresson, the space is so constrained that it becomes difficult for me to call it a true city-builder, rather than a straight-up puzzle, unless you're playing on an easy difficulty. (Mission 14, I'm looking at you) Every building in Laysara feels like a puzzle piece that you have to get somewhat right (As it's not overtly punishing you for making unoptimal decisions) and when you get it right - it truly works. It feels like an organic way to make an Anno-style game less about fighting against opponents, (whether they are real players or, when it comes to campaign - AI) and more of a relaxed, puzzly type of city-builder, where you dont face outside threats other than your own shortcomings. In the end, it's a very (with emphasis on VERY) beautiful game with enough content and meaningful differences between each city to warrant completing the campaign and a few other challenge missions that has a strong identity and knows what it is and what it isn't.
Delightful. TLDR: You run a Himalayan economy. Primarily, this involves you attempting to build an agricultural network powered by yaks and an increasingly complex network of relay posts to provide for your monks so they can do... something? Details are unclear. But the yaks demand your attention! I was initially somewhat skeptical because it seemed fairly simple (boring), but the scaling of the economy forces you to switch from randomly placing buildings as needed to building complicated multi-step economic processes and then distributing them across several mountain faces. The increasing costs of transport add a nice touch, because you really need to think about how to distribute your resources. The characters are fun and lovable, the yaks plentiful, and it all takes place in the whimsical background of you attempting to supply an entire civilization of people with enough yak cheese to sate their endless hunger. Seriously, you will make so much cheese. The one thing I wish I had understood before starting is that sometimes in the campaign you will go back to cities you previously built and expand upon them. This somewhat screwed me over because when approaching the finish of one level, I would sometimes try to do anything I could to hurl myself over the finish line (i.e., placing buildings randomly/wherever I could find room) only to find out later that I now needed to reckon with the consequences of my own actions, and that I would need to rearrange the whole city to provide my monks with enough butter tea for them to understand the secrets of the universe. The game is easy to play, but hard to play *well*. You can often achieve your goals with enough brute force, scattering yak fields, beehives, and copper mines across every face of the mountain. BUT—completing levels efficiently and quickly, in an organized way, comes with a slight learning curve to work out the nuances of the relay system and the economics of yak distribution. 10/10 experience, won't lie. A whimsical take on a tried and true genre, set against a lovely backdrop.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Laysara: Summit Kingdom is currently priced at 24.50€ on Steam.
No, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.50€ on Steam.
Yes, Laysara: Summit Kingdom received 1,162 positive votes out of a total of 1,435 achieving a rating of 7.75.
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Laysara: Summit Kingdom was developed by Quite OK Games and published by Quite OK Games and Future Friends Games.
Yes, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is not playable on MacOS.
No, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
Yes, Laysara: Summit Kingdom is playable on Steam Machine, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
No, Laysara: Summit Kingdom does not support VR.
Laysara: Summit Kingdom is a single-player game.
Yes, there is a DLC available for Laysara: Summit Kingdom. Explore additional content available for Laysara: Summit Kingdom on Steam.
No, Laysara: Summit Kingdom does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Laysara: Summit Kingdom does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Laysara: Summit Kingdom 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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Online players
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Developer
Quite OK Games
Publisher
Quite OK Games,
Future Friends Games
Release
27 Feb 2026
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