Stardock is set to publish Colonus, a new medieval city-building game from Badhenke Studios. The title leans heavily into deep production chains, exploration, and the individual lives of local residents. Colonus is slated for a 2027 launch, and you can already add it to your wishlist on Steam.

Colonus is a city builder that places its chips firmly on exploration, production chains, and the daily grind of every single resident. It attempts to blend relaxed gameplay with meaningful challenges, offering up a world of diverse islands and environments where discovering fresh land and building a thriving colony is the name of the game. Things kick off when a crew of shipwrecked souls washes ashore on an unfamiliar island. As the leader of this unfortunate bunch, the player has to gather resources, throw up some buildings, assign jobs, and venture beyond the island borders to rebuild the colony from the ground up.

As the colony grows, players will chart new islands, face environmental hurdles, establish extra settlements, and set up the production chains to keep them all afloat. Colonus is designed to let players steer one or multiple colonies through broad policies and long-term decisions rather than getting bogged down in endless micro-management.

Henrik Eriksson, founder of Badhenke Studios, noted that the team wanted to craft a city builder that remains relaxing without sliding into total passivity. Eriksson added that the goal is to let players explore a charming world, establish colonies across the islands, and build settlements centred entirely around the needs and happiness of the residents.