SimulationFit check
Is The Last City worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- Strategy players who enjoy managing colonists and settlement productivity
- Survival game fans who want resource collection and desert hazards
- Players who prefer colony builders with research, crafting, and defense
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking a short, fixed scenario rather than colony management lasting at least 10 days
- Players who want combat to be the main focus instead of resource, workforce, and settlement decisions
- Players looking for a purely peaceful builder without hostile entities or defensive demands
Our take on The Last City
The defining constraint is maintaining a functioning colony in a desert for a minimum of 10 days, combining survival needs with workforce management, production, research, and defense.
What is The Last City?
The Last City is a survival strategy game set in a harsh desert.
Players lead a group of colonists while establishing and maintaining a colony for at least 10 days. The workflow combines exploration and resource collection with construction, tool-making, and technology research. Food, water, wood, and minerals support the settlement, while colonist attributes, schedules, and happiness require management. Buildings and factories expand production, including automated processing and item creation. A day-and-night cycle changes the conditions faced by the colony, while hostile entities and other threats create defensive demands. Random events can alter progress and require strategic responses. Progress can be saved and loaded to try different approaches.
How The Last City plays
- 01Colonist management
- Assign work schedules and monitor attributes and happiness while running the settlement.
- 02Desert resources
- Gather food, water, wood, and minerals during expeditions across the environment.
- 03Research progression
- Unlock technologies and upgrades through a research tree as the colony develops.
- 04Factory automation
- Build factories that handle item production and the processing of collected materials.
- 05Colony defense
- Equip colonists to respond to hostile entities and other threats.
- 06Dynamic daily cycle
- Changing daylight conditions affect the challenges faced during colony management.
- 07Random events
- Unplanned occurrences can change the colony's progress and strategic choices.
- 08Save and load
- Store progress and reload it to test different management approaches.
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The Last City: platforms & release
Is The Last City worth it?
It is worth it if: strategy players who enjoy managing colonists and settlement productivity. Skip it if: players seeking a short, fixed scenario rather than colony management lasting at least 10 days.
Where can I download The Last City?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens The Last City's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is The Last City on?
Windows only.
