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Operation: VICUS

Ilja Soutchilin, Tom Berger, Adrian Reichhardt · Published by Ilja Soutchilin, Tom Berger

6 user reviews — 67% positive (6 reviews)

Last updated 27 Sept 2026

Hey, so you're the chosen one? Welcome to your new home, your village! Build it up, develop it, take care of the needs of its inhabitants and fight the evil that haunts your village. But the most important thing is, can you solve the mystery of the village?

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Indie, Free To Play, Strategy, Early Access, Casual · 2022 · More free games

In Operation: VICUS, you'll build and defend your village against evil forces. With early access, dive into strategic gameplay and unravel the village’s secrets.

About this game

There is only you, the chosen one who rules over the village. You have to find out what the strange notes are about, where do they come from and what do they want to tell you? Besides, with your actions you will strengthen or weaken your relationship with your inhabitants. Make tough decisions that will haunt you longer than you might think. Expand your village to accommodate more inhabitants and explore new things in the laboratory, be it weapons, buildings and much more. However, you'll have to stay alert, because you'll be haunted by insidious beasts that would love to destroy your village. So you must train your troops and lead them into battle!

Build your village

With the help of your mines, the ores extracted from there will be processed by your blacksmith and in combination with the wood of the forester, great things can be built, such as new habitable houses, attractions for the inhabitants or yet barracks and defensive guns. With the help of your laboratory you can improve your buildings and make them more robust or you can have new, better buildings researched, which you can then use in your village!


Satisfaction


If you want to work your way forward, it is of great importance to take care of your villagers. You need to monitor their happiness, either the overall happiness of your village or the happiness of the individual citizens. If the villagers are in a bad mood, you need to get to the bottom of it and, if necessary, fix the problems that cause it using the Satisfaction menu or the information provided by the individual citizens. But if you neglect their feelings, you have to expect deterioration in your production and further problems!

Day management


The daily schedule of the villagers is determined by you alone. You can determine the schedule of each citizen: You can make them work longer hours to boost your production, give them more free time or alternatively let them decide what they want to do. However, you must never forget that your actions affect the mood of each citizen, and their moods add up to determine the satisfaction level of your village. So make sure that the inhabitants have nothing to complain about!

Low Poly Artstyle

Dive into the world of the unique Low Poly Artstyle and experience relaxed atmospheres in the morning or mysterious mood in the evening. The interplay between the cartoon-like animations and the beautiful low poly look creates beautiful moments. The music, reminiscent of No Mans Sky in places, creates a great ambience with its style that always fits the situation.

Combat and defense*

Upgrade your town with barracks and guns to defend against the invaders! Upgrade your barracks to get better and stronger troops. Decide which strategy you want to follow, fight with weaker but more troops or less but stronger? And better to finish everything in close combat or to finish the enemy from a distance? Or both? You decide and lead your warriors into battle and decide still in battle which targets your troops should attack and how many of your soldiers should pursue this target!

Story*

Find out what the strange notes are all about! Make tough decisions and try to understand what this village is all about!

*These features are currently planned but not yet implemented

System Requirements

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Minimum

Minimum:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS: Windows 10
  • Processor: Intel i5 9400 F 2.9ghz
  • Memory: 16 GB RAM
  • Graphics: Nvidia GTX 1650
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 300 MB available space
  • Additional Notes: Still in Development, System Requirements are subject to change.

Recommended

Recommended:
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system

Supported Languages

English*
*languages with full audio support

Latest news

  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    End Of Operation:VICUS

    Hey Guys, First of all, we apologize for leaving you without any explanation and in general our disappearance. As you might have already thought, we will, sadly, discontinue this project due to various personal raisons. Surely, we planned to set the game Free-To-Play, which will happen in 30 days. Everyone who purchased the game now or max 2 weeks ago, will have the opportunity to get a refund by turning the game in. Since we really care about this vision and idea of "Operation:VICUS", we will offer you our source code on Github for free! If you also want to check all of our 3D models and rigs, you will find them on CG Trader (@Cryt0x). We again, sincerely apologize for this truly sad ending of this project! Best regards IntensityGames {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40530977/5ea5f1e7312dd3a3594e90d12c833468bb5b7f6d.png
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Apology for delaying our final release

    Hey Guys! First of all we want to apologise for delaying our final release! The reason being for that is our dissatisfaction about the current stage of the game. We want you to have the best possible experience with the fully developed game. However in our lights that would not be the case now. Accordingly we are still working on improving the user's experience and developing further features! Thus, we are delaying the release date until the second quarter of 2023. Until then, we sincerely invite you to join our community on our social media channels to take part in this developing journey, as we are planning to work closely with you guys. Resulting in a game which we developed together! We apologise again for the inconvenience!
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Update 0.7.0.0 - 02/04/2022 - Dangers

    Hey everyone, First of all, we would like to apologize for the delay, since we wanted to release this update on 31/03/2022. However, we hope that you will like the new features. There lies danger in the dark. Evil robots from the unknown attack your village at night and try to hinder your villages growth! Luckily, you can fight them off by building Barracks which allow you to train Soldiers and lead them into the fight! Other Changes: - Fixed the screen looking washed out after the last update - Added torch fire to the beach torches Thank you for your support and good luck on the battlefield!
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  • Patch NotesOfficial

    Update 0.6.1.0 - 09/02/2022

    Adds new, progressively unlocked tutorials explaining the game in more detail. Other changes: - Fixed an error when loading the game - Fixed Continue button being available even if no savegame exists - Fixed Villager Menu not showing after clicking on villager - Forester Villagers now only chop selected trees
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  • AnnouncementsOfficial

    Early Access Release & Future Plans

    Operation: VICUS is now released as Early Access! These are our current plans until the release of the full version: {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/40530977/fc87fbedc9e1f9d8443399e7403b91f5e41de092.png
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