Foundation
Released: 1/31/2025
Score Breakdown
87.7
Critic Average
3 reviews
86
Steam User Score
23,194 reviews
65
Metacritic User Score
21 reviews
Disparity Breakdown
88 vs 86
88 vs 65
Average of both sources
Review Disparities
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2/24/2025
Launch Window“Overall, Foundation is a game that takes a while to get the hang of. It is incredibly complex and requires a lot of thinking, but it manages to ease you into it in a neat way. That being said, it does leave you hanging afterward, leaving you on your own to figure out the exact specifications of most of the mechanics.”
83
83/100
2/4/2025
Launch Window“Foundation is one of the most lovingly designed city-building games currently available and offers much more scope for creativity than other construction games thanks to the numerous modular buildings.”
100
100/100
2/1/2025
Launch Window“As I mentioned up top, I’m not usually a huge fan of building sims. The majority of the genre is focused around warring your neighbors and feel a lot more like RTS games than sims sometimes. However, Foundation is a cozier version of the genre, and I love everything about it. It’s cute, it’s got a great tutorial, amazing atmosphere, colorful and beautiful graphics, good sound design, and a whole lot more. I can definitely recommend this to anyone, even if you’ve never played this kind of game before”
80
80/100
