Populus is a low-fantasy colony sim where you don’t control subjects directly. You set the rules, choose priorities, and build the conditions they live under. Your people act on their own, shaping the settlement with their choices.

Build industries, trade with the homeland, and expand your foothold in a land full of untapped resources and new opportunities. Every decision, taxes, policies, religion, military force, reshapes your growing society, influencing how people work, worship, and fight for their beliefs.

• Indirect control: Issue orders and policies, let settlers act on their own judgment.

• Dynamic society: Watch social classes, faiths, and factions emerge naturally.

• Trade and politics: Develop industries, forge trade routes, balance economy and power.

• Unscripted stories: A living colony that changes based on your leadership, not micro-management.

In Populus, you don’t play the settlers. You play the system that governs them.