New Cycle

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About the Game New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray.

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Developer:
Core Engage Software
Engine:
Unity
Release date:
18 January 2024
Recent Steam reviews:
Not specified
All Steam reviews:
Very Positive (1306)

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About the Game



New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.


Build and expand your settlement using free form or grid-based design. Seek, gather and produce new resources to advance your civilization. As you develop it further, you will re-discover the more advanced and complex ways of the past to produce goods on a large scale.


This hostile world will challenge you with sand storms, shortages, wildfires and other natural disasters. Be prepared and always ready to act quickly. But nature isn’t the only thing to worry about: Refugee crises, unrest, disease outbreaks – the list of challenges is long. You will have to make crucial decisions, many of them painful, to avert the downfall of your civilization.


Take care of your people’s basic needs. Distribute food, water, tools and clothes and regulate their daily work schedule. Enrich their life with entertainment, prevent diseases and improve your people’s health by providing medical facilities. With every new member of your community you get closer to re-discovering the forgotten technologies of the old world.


As your settlement develops into an industrial city, running on fuel and burning coal, a whole new level of productivity opens up to you. Mass-production, automation, factories feeding factories via complex systems of conveyor belts. Modernize your workforce by training your people in these specialized tasks.


Each era has the potential to improve your production as well as the lives of your people, giving you access to numerous new buildings. As your settlement develops into an industrial city, running on fuel and burning coal, a whole new level of productivity opens up to you.


Explore your surroundings to find places of interest and untapped resources. Build outposts to make them accessible to your people and establish a train network to transport them.


The year is 2073. After an apocalyptic series of devastating solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. With the technological advancements of the past almost completely lost, the remnants of humanity now struggle to survive. But, even in this desperate world, one thing remains true: As one era ends, another era begins. It is time for a new cycle.

Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis. Ensure the survival of your people against all odds. Remember: There is always hope. And our greatest achievement is yet to come…

New Cycle – There must be a future beyond survival.

Recommended system requirements

minimum*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10/11 64-bit
Processor:
Intel Core i5-4590 @ 3.3 GHz | AMD FX 8320 @ 3.5 GHz
Memory:
8 GB RAM
Graphics:
GeForce GTX 960 (4GB VRAM) | AMD Radeon R9 290 (4GB VRAM) or equivalent
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
12 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX-compatible using the latest drivers
Additional Notes:
Target Performance: >30FPS @ 1080p using medium graphical settings

recommended*

Requirement 1:
Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS:
Windows 10/11 64-bit
Processor:
Intel Core i5-7400 @ 3.0 GHz | AMD Ryzen 5 2600X @ 3.6 GHz
Memory:
16 GB RAM
Graphics:
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 SUPER | AMD RX 5700-XT or better
DirectX:
Version 11
Storage:
12 GB available space
Sound Card:
DirectX-compatible using the latest drivers
Additional Notes:
Target Performance: 60FPS @ 1080p using high graphical settings

User reviews

daveh247
Not recommended | 09 Apr 2026
271h played

This is probably my favorite builder ever. Very well done. Unfortunately it stops working early on. Resources just stop working & the whole thing starts to collapse. Hopefully they fix it soon.

Helpful: 25
Jakeytastic
Not recommended | 09 Apr 2026
42.0h played

Very rough at the moment. A ton of bugs like random noises, clipping, crashing, MASSIVE frame stuttering and more. In my humble opinion I think Bug fixing & HUGE optimization efforts are needed before adding anything

Helpful: 25
Civilove
Not recommended | 14 Mar 2026
11.8h played

Biggest issue I have with the game is that it is not challenging, and also not really fun. Everything is ok, kind of like Frostpunk, with the exception that the later is fun and addicting, and New Cycle is not.

Helpful: 9
Starfriend
Not recommended | 04 Apr 2026
10.4h played

Its alright, but it feels like just another city builder that requires lots of buildings to juggle lots of different resources. The worlds coming to an end but nothings happening, I'll just keep amassing the never

Helpful: 5
Wokey Pokey
Recommended | 14 Apr 2026
19.1h played

An interesting city-builder with great potential. Took me 19h to play through the campaign in its current state and enjoyed every minute of it. There's a great many resources to manage and you have to take great care in

Helpful: 5
ATLAS
Not recommended | 21 Apr 2026
30 min played

A game shouldn't be released in such an early state. The UI is terrible, the performance is a disaster, and the constant stuttering makes it completely unplayable. It’s in Early Access, but it feels like an Alpha at

Helpful: 9