Depraved (v1.5b.58)

A single wagon and a patch of untamed frontier are all that stand between your settlers and a Western ghost town. Depraved is a demanding city-building survival game set in a procedurally generated Wild West, where fertile land, clean water, timber, and trade routes matter as much as ambition. Its mood is less about cowboy heroics than hard, practical frontier management: a promising settlement can unravel quickly when drought, disease, cold, or crime takes hold. Every new town begins as a fragile outpost that needs careful planning before it can become a thriving community.

Players scout the landscape, choose a settlement site, gather natural resources, and place the homes, workshops, farms, wells, and services needed to keep residents alive. Water and food are constant concerns, but settlers also expect suitable clothing, firewood, medicine, and preferred meals based on their population group; feeding people poorly may keep them alive, yet it damages morale. Growth depends on keeping citizens happy enough to attract newcomers, while shortages can lead to theft, raids, emigration, and eventual collapse. Trading helps cover gaps in local production, but expanding too rapidly without secure supply chains leaves a town exposed to storms, bandits, and contagious illness.

The strongest idea is how closely social order connects to ordinary logistics. Rather than treating happiness as a simple bonus meter, Depraved makes dissatisfaction a real threat that changes how the town behaves, giving each stockpile and production decision consequences. Randomized maps add replay value because no two starts offer the same balance of forests, rivers, arable ground, and access to resources. Fans of Banished, Anno-style supply networks, or survival-focused colony builders should find plenty to enjoy, especially if they prefer slower, systems-heavy planning over direct action and do not mind recovering from harsh early mistakes.