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Foundation

Released: 1/31/2025

Critics
88
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Users
86

Score Breakdown

87.7

Critic Average

3 reviews

86

Steam User Score

23,194 reviews

65

Metacritic User Score

21 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
+1.4

88 vs 86

Metacritic Disparity
+22.7

88 vs 65

Combined Disparity
+12.0

Average of both sources

Review Disparities

Positive = critic higher than usersNegative = critic lower than users

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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

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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

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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

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