Project Description

Craftlings

Welcome to Craftlings, a humorous, relaxing resource-management strategy game, set in a vibrant fantasy world.
You tend to a cluster of Craftlings based across diverse biomes, and work with them to gather resources and construct buildings. With these humble folk, you’ll assign tasks, grow your settlement, optimise production chains, and upgrade your Town Hall to unlock new building types. Can you help them find a place to call home?

Features

Build and Shape

Shape the world around you, put your adventurous Craftlings to work, and constantly improve your settlement by adapting framework foundations into flourishing hubs.  
– Craft various building types, from farms to barracks, then zoom in to see them come to life in exciting ways!
– Keep an eye out for unique structures that can only be found in certain areas.
– Kick back, relax, shape and sculpt the land, then build on it in a way that fits your playstyle.

Gather and Solve

Gather resources to build your settlement and find new ways to collect them across several distinct biomes. From finding cacti in the desert to fishing in the frost, resources form the currency of creation in Craftlings and are essential to your progress and survival 
– Journey through bitter, harsh winters and scorching hot deserts to find creative ways to discover and build in unrelenting conditions.
– Craftlings can interchange their roles and responsibilities to collect the resources you need – easily switch their profession between lumberjacks, stone masons, miners and more
– Blast your way through the dirt, take risks, venture past your settlement to find additional resources, but be ever wary of what lurks around the corner.

Fight Back 

Craftlings are pacifists at heart, but they’re also plucky and will always stand their ground and fight against anything if it means protecting their people.  
– Upgrade your settlements to construct a Colosseum and train champions ready to stand firm against any challenge.
– Arm your Craftling for battle, defend yourself in timed, turn-based skirmishes or cast spells to get out of danger.
– Fight against all sorts of unusual creatures, from an Octopus to Skeletons. Even Dragons!

Reminisce 

Craftlings is a throwback to strategy games from the 90s and showcases a modern-day pixel art style that pays homage to the classics. Coupled with a soothing score, relaxing vibe and comical sound effects, you’ll feel right at home in this world whether it’s your first time or it reminds you of somewhere you visited once before. 

Craftlings Press Kit

Platforms

Steam

About ARIANO Games

ARIANO Games GmbH, a solo developer studio based in Germany, was founded in 2024 and focuses on crafting games with innovative and unique gameplay. Its current, debut project – Craftlings – will bring strong nostalgic feelings for those who grew up with gaming during the 90s.