NationForge

NationForge — A Multi-City Strategy Builder About Interdependent Cities

NationForge is a strategy city builder where no city can grow alone.

You don’t build a single megacity.
You build a network of specialized cities, each playing a role in the growth of an entire nation.

Your long-term objective is to grow your nation to 500,000 population within 30 years by carefully managing production, logistics, and policy decisions.

How the Game Works

Each city is founded with a specific purpose:

• A forest town that produces planks for construction

• A fertile farming city that supplies food

• A mining town extracting ores

• An industrial city converting ores into manufactured goods

Cities depend on each other.
Resources must be transported between them to enable growth.

You design the logistics:

• Build roads, railways, and shipping routes

• Create trade routes specifying what resource moves where

• Assign trucks, trains, or ships to keep cities supplied

As cities receive more resources, population increases and new opportunities unlock.

Expansion & Progression

Growth doesn’t stop at one region.

• Acquire new land

• Found additional cities

• Introduce new resource chains

• Unlock policies to boost population, increase production, or enable advanced buildings

Every new resource integrated into your network pushes your nation closer to its population goal — or exposes weaknesses in your logistics.

What to Try in This Build (10–15 minutes)

If you’re playtesting, here’s a simple starting experiment:

• Build a forest city producing ~200 planks per tick

• Build a farming city producing ~500 vegetables per tick

• Create a route to send planks to the farming city for construction

• Create another route to send vegetables back to the forest city

• Watch both cities grow by feeding each other

Next steps, add more cities to produce prefabs, steel & bitumen required for construction. Check for your citizens needs and provide required resources and services.

Current Status

This is an early playtest build focused on:

• Multi-city logistics

• Resource-driven population growth

• Route setup and transport balancing

Feedback is especially welcome on:

• Growth pacing

• Resource usefulness

• Clarity of logistics and routes

Wishlist on Steam 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/4139110/NationForge/