Embark

Overly Complicated Games / Apr 18, 2019 / Indie, Simulation, Strategy, Early Access

windows
Steam Deck Playable

1 playing now

Inspired by the deep simulation of Dwarf Fortress, the open world survival of Minecraft, and the social interactions of The Sims. Embark is a colony management game with a focus on complex simulation in a huge living 3D world.

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Part	Your PC	MinimumNot sure	RecommendedNot sure
CPU	Not set	Intel CPU Core i3-530 2.93 GHz, AMD CPU Phenom II X4 940 Can't tell	Intel CPU Core i7 3770 3,4 GHz, AMD CPU AMD FX-8350 4 GHz Can't tell
GPU	Not set	2GB DirectX 11 GPU (Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 660, AMD GPU Radeon HD 7870) Can't tell	Nvidia GPU GeForce GTX 1060, AMD GPU Radeon RX 580 Can't tell
RAM	Not set	8 GB RAM Can't tell	16 GB RAM Can't tell

What's new

Update 0.930

2024-06-19

The focus with this update has been to improve the playability of the game, especially for new players. I've probably missed some things, let me know if anything confusing was left out. • New in-game help system to explain things in game (will be improved with more images shortly). • Includes list of all items in game and their recipes. • Improvements to UI for building functions. • Added many new tooltips and cleaned up old tooltips. • General UI tweaks and clean-up.

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What players say

Mixed

59% positive, 286 reviews

Not recommended69 hrs played

Dev cut and run. Don't support this person. This game shouldn't even be on Steam for sale.

4 found this helpful, 2026-02-03

Not recommended15 hrs played

unfinished Early Access game which will likely never be finished by the developer. Do not buy this!

1 found this helpful, 2026-06-25

Not recommended2 hrs played

Steam should delist and refund completely abandoned titles.

5 found this helpful, 2026-02-01

Not recommended353 hrs played

The game is half done and the developer said their are not working on it for a year so they can work on a different game. I gave them my money on the basis that they would finish the game and not start developing something else like some developer magpie who spotted a shiny new game to make. I would imagine this is the same for other owners of this game. I have endured too many early access failures and this looks...

0 found this helpful, 2026-05-18