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Mullet Games · Published by Mullet Games · Official site ↗
Last updated 29 Sept 2026
A survival citybuilder set in a desert afflicted by relentless sandstorms. Build, farm, research, clear sand and protect your people from the storms. Will you find water or desolation? Will your settlement thrive or be buried in sand?
Indie, Strategy · 2027 · More free games
In Storm Settlers, your task is to construct and defend a thriving community against relentless sandstorms. Navigate the harsh desert environment, research new technologies, and ensure your people survive or face being buried in desolation.
About this game
AN UNLIKELY CITY IN THE DESERT
Storm settlers is a survival citybuilder set in a desert afflicted by relentless sandstorms. Lead your group of settlers to build a city in this inhospitable environment. With scarce resources and unfavorable odds, your only hope is to drill deep into the ground to reach the water table and save the settlement. Will you find water or desolation? Will your settlement thrive or be buried in sand?
PROTECT FROM THE STORM
The desert’s lack of food and water won’t be the only challenge you’ll face. Relentless sandstorms will hit your settlement. Be careful where you build your city and erect walls to protect your people from the forever-moving sands of the desert.
FEATURES
Build a city with roads and various building types and assign your settlers to work.
Welcome or reject new people looking for a place to settle in this unforgiving desert.
Manage your limited resources to feed and hydrate your people to keep them alive.
Research technologies to unlock new buildings and skills to improve your odds of survival.
Explore the desert to find rare and indispensable resources.
Fight the sandstorm by building walls and digging away the spreading sand.
Research and build a powerful drill to dig deep into the earth to find the water table and save the settlement.
Unlock new skins and customization options through progressing in the game.
no microtransactions.
Modify the terrain by breaking rocks, growing new patches of grass and digging away sand to expand your buildable area.
Trade with traveling merchants.
In-game encyclopedia detailing Storm Settlers' many elements so you can learn at your own pace.
Different environments including desert and tundra biomes.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10 or 11
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 8 MB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 470 GTX or AMD Radeon 6870 HD series or higher
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 400 MB available space
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Latest news
AnnouncementsOfficial
Playtest done
I'm finally calling the end of the playtest. I got a lot of great feedback that will help me make a better game in the end. Thanks to everybody who's been part of it! There will be other ones in the future for sure (and eventually a demo), but now it's time to use all that feedback to improve the game!Read full article on Community Announcements (Mullet Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
Storm Settlers' playtest starting right now!
I've been hard at work improving the mid to late game of Storm Settlers, which makes it a perfect time to ask for playtesters! Starting right now (and for a couple of weeks), anybody who joins the discord server and ask for a beta key will receive one. https://discord.gg/qp9u9dmXYG The goal is to get everybody's feedback so I can make the best possible game! Thanks to everyone taking part, your help is much appreciated! I also made a short devlog about the latest additions if you are interested:Read full article on Community Announcements (Mullet Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
2 years, explorers, grass and water
Hello everyone! At the end of last year I posted a recap video of the last 2 years working on Storm Settlers, if you want to take a little peak behind the curtains: Since then, I've kept working on the game. I improved the explorer's mechanic, new unlockable techs and options with it. Another thing that was bothering me was that some resources could be produced infinitely, making it very hard to balance the game. So now grass and water slowly runs out as the tiles are exploited by building, adding a bit more management for the player for grass and more reasons to explorer the desert to find new patches of water. It's not crazy hard, but it will give a little bit more things for the player to care about. I also worked on the water art to first make it animated, but it also moves toward the wind coming from the next storm. It's part of my effort for the mood of the game being centered around wind, so I want a LOT more things waving in the wind. And still a lot more new stuff in preparation for the playtest somewhere in early spring!Read full article on Community Announcements (Mullet Games)AnnouncementsOfficial
Addressing Playtest Feedback
Hello everyone ! Before adding new content, I made it sure to tackle the feedback from the last playtest and made a devlog about it: I’m super happy with the progress of the game, improving what already exists to leave the game in a way better state before I add new content. So now that it’s done, it’s time to look ahead toward the new content ! Of course, this new content will disturb the game mechanics and will also need its own wave of playtest to be sure to be the best it can. Based on my planning, I should be done by March 2026, where I’ll hold a new closed playtest. It’s still closed for now because the point of it is to receive feedback, not necessarily to advertise the game (yet), but don’t worry, everybody who asks will get a key ! If you want to take part in the next playtest, come hang out on the game's discord server where most of the playtest interactions happen:https://discord.gg/qp9u9dmXYG Otherwise, I’ll most likely post again here to let everybody know when it’s playtest time !Read full article on Community Announcements (Mullet Games)Patch NotesOfficial
Update on work done on the game.
Hi ! I'm the dev of Storm Settlers. I wanted to give you a little update on the work currently done on the game.After releasing the steam page, I put on my producer hat and made a big planif, noting every single tasks needed to reach the final release and giving them a time evaluation.I also divided those task for what would be needed to be worth a new playtest, but before I can announce the next playtest date based on those evaluations, I want to tackle everything that is left to do based on the feedback on the previous playtest.There's still a couple of tasks to do and I don't want to waste anybody's time by going through new playtests when I'm not even done fixing what needed to be fixed from the previous one.So I got a couple small tasks, mostly quality of life stuff, I want to tackle, which will allow me to see how accurate my time estimates are and then I'll reevaluate what needs to be done for the next playtests and probably announce a date for the next playtest.If you want to take part in the next playtest, come hang out on the game's discord server where most of the playtest interactions happen: https://discord.gg/qp9u9dmXYGExpect to hear again from me in about a month-ish, after I'm done will all those tasks !Read full article on Community Announcements (Mullet Games)
