Nepos Games are the two-person studio behind Nebuchadnezzar, which Nate Crowley called “two thirds of an outstanding historical city builder”. They’ve just informed me they’re making a new building sim called County Of Fortune, out in Q4 2025. It ain’t a city builder, though. In fact, it claims to have murdered the city builder in cold blood, which is unfortunate, because I was really looking forward to a round of Manor Lords later.
“The city-builder is dead, long live the county-builder,” declares the press release, brandishing the husk of SimCity over its head. OK, I’ll bite – what’s a county-builder then? Well, it’s sort of several city-builders having an argument. In County Of Fortune, you seed and grow a number of settlements side by side, then manage their economic and social relations. In other words, it’s a game that appears to simulate the phenomenon of culture clash. I’m not sure all this amounts to the wholesale death of a genre, but it’s certainly intriguing. Here’s the Steam page, and here’s a trailer.
