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Hearth and Hamlet — Release, Price, Platforms, and Overview
Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval incremental citybuilder about turning a campfire settlement into a kingdom through workers, policies, research, magic and trade.
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GAME INTRODUCTION
What to know before you play
Hearth and Hamlet is a single-player incremental citybuilder from Phorust Studios. It starts with a campfire and turns that small settlement into a medieval kingdom through workers, buildings, research and policy choices. The game released on August 19, 2026 for Windows and SteamOS/Linux. Steam showed a US price of $7.19 when checked August 22.
Release facts
| Detail | Current information |
|---|---|
| Release date | August 19, 2026 |
| Platforms | Windows and SteamOS/Linux |
| Developer | Phorust Studios |
| Publishers | Runic Forge and Gamersky Games |
| Structure | Single-player incremental citybuilder |
| US price | $7.19 when checked August 22 |
What the game is about
Workers gather food, wood, stone and gold while the player decides what to build and research next. The official description presents growth as a gradual loop: increase the settlement's capacity, unlock permanent upgrades, then open more complex systems.
Laws affect taxation, worker rules, guard drafts and civic decisions. Later progression adds trade routes, soldiers, alchemy and magical academies. These are confirmed parts of the game; the store does not publish a universal worker ratio, exact build order or complete cost table.
Guides and exact answers
- Beginner guide — the current opening priorities.
- Blueprints — unlock blueprint tiers through Library research and commission additional copies at the Shop.
- Unlock Magic — follow the Harbor, Ship, Rubiscar, Wizard, Witch's Mire and Academy progression chain.
- System requirements — Windows and Linux hardware information.
- Current patch notes — verified changes from versions 1.0.01 through 1.0.04.
- Blue-arrow fast travel — the exact Shift-click control added in 1.0.03.
Each linked page has a narrower job than this overview. Policy-tree, universal worker-ratio, and broad research-order pages remain unpublished until their exact claims can be supported beyond a single guide or broad store description. The Magic page publishes the route now corroborated across current progression sources, while withholding launch-week costs that appear in only one source.
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The settlement grows from a small camp into a larger medieval kingdom.Official source ↗
Research permanently opens buildings, policies, upgrades and magic.Official source ↗
Workers gather food, wood, stone and gold as the settlement expands.Official source ↗
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SYSTEMS & REFERENCE
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In patch 1.0.03, hold Shift and click a blue arrow to fast travel; ordinary clicks are ignored to prevent accidental camera movement.
→Blueprints · Aug 23, 2026Hearth and Hamlet Blueprints — Unlock and Get CopiesBlueprints are progression and research items, not ordinary map drops; unlock their tier through the Library and obtain additional copies through the Shop.
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