Mound Kingdoms

Build and lead a thriving Mississippian city centered around sacred mounds, powerful chiefdoms, and a living world shaped by trade, ritual, and expansion. Grow your settlement across river valleys, forests, and open plains where the land itself defines your strategy. Construct plazas, raise monumental earthworks, and shape a society that reflects your power and influence. Develop your people, manage resources, and compete with rival chiefdoms as your city rises from a small village into a dominant regional power. ⸻ KEY FEATURES • Mound-centered city building – Construct and expand sacred mounds that define your settlement’s power and progression • Living settlements – Build organized cities around plazas, housing, and ceremonial centers • Dynamic economy – Gather food, wood, and earth while managing population and growth • Rival chiefdoms – Compete against AI factions expanding across the map • Influence system – Use ceremonies and prosperity to strengthen your city and people • Large scale maps – River valleys, forests, and plains shape how your settlement develops ⸻ CORE GAMEPLAY At its core, the game focuses on building, organizing, and expanding a Mississippian settlement. Begin with a small village and grow it into a powerful city centered around a central plaza and rising mounds. Workers gather resources, construct buildings, and transport earth to gradually build up your mounds. As your city grows, new structures, abilities, and opportunities unlock, allowing you to expand your influence and strengthen your position. Careful planning is key. Placement of buildings, expansion of your population, and investment into mound construction all directly impact your success. ⸻ CITY BUILDING AND PROGRESSION Your city develops around its mounds, which act as the heart of your civilization. As mounds grow in size and importance, they unlock new capabilities and strengthen your settlement. Construct longhouses, granaries, workshops, and ceremonial structures to support your population. Balance growth with stability, ensuring your city can sustain itself while continuing to expand. Each decision shapes the structure and strength of your settlement over time. ⸻ WORLD AND RIVAL FACTIONS You are not alone. Other chiefdoms expand, gather resources, and compete for control of the land. Some will grow into powerful rivals, forcing you to adapt your strategy and defend your territory. The world itself plays a role, with terrain influencing expansion, resource availability, and settlement planning. Rivers provide opportunity, forests offer resources, and open land allows for large scale development. ⸻ No two settlements grow the same. Shape your city, build your influence, and establish your place in a living world rooted in history and strategy.