Disclaimer: This game does NOT have deep simulation like Dwarf Fortress or Rimworld. It's similar, but the simulated elements are very simple in comparison. It's a survival settlement-builder with the goal of "beating" an individual world in 8-12 hours of gameplay.

Manage your ever-growing settlement! Use the resources at your disposal to build structures necessary for survival. Research new structures with a variety of functionalities. When resources grow scarce, explore your surroundings for more. Encounter other settlements and deal with them using diplomacy or hostility.

Harvest

Collect resources to build new structures and keep your settlers alive. Resource management is essential for a thriving settlement.

Build

Use resources to build structures with a variety of uses. 

Explore

Clear away the unknown to discover more resources and and other settlements in a procedural world.

Recruit

Use Influence to recruit new settlers to your cause. Larger populations can produce more resources, but need more food, medicine, and housing to survive.

Research

Research new structures from a large tech tree.

Diplomacy

Interact with other settlements in a variety of ways. Figure out a way to deal with them without losing your settlers- or your settlement- in the process.