$14.99Necesse Build a settlement, fight dragons
Necesse is a top-down survival crafting game where you found a village in an infinite procedurally generated world and grow it into a working colony. You recruit settlers with particular skills, set them to farm, mine, cook and craft, then leave for dungeons, seas and boss fights while the village keeps running.
Is Necesse worth it?
Necesse is worth it if…
- you like colony sims where settlers farm, mine and craft while you adventure
- you like building a village from rough huts to farms, orchards and workshops
- you like top-down survival crafting with dungeons, bosses and loot to chase
- you like playing solo, in co-op, or on a large shared server
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Recruit settlers and put them to work
You start with rough shelter and big plans. You build houses, workshops, farms and orchards, then recruit settlers who each bring particular skills to the colony.
Assign them to chop wood, mine ore, tend fields and animals, cook meals or craft gear, and they keep at it without constant supervision. Their work feeds back into your expeditions, since better tools, armor, potions and scrolls come from the resources they gather. You sell spare wares and trade with neighbouring settlements for equipment you could not make yet, which feels like cheating in the best way.
Defend a village that keeps getting noticed
A flourishing village draws attention. Raiders and monsters come calling, and colony sim fans know the drill: walls alone will not save the harvest.
You hire guards, give your settlers better gear, and craft traps around the approaches. You decide where workshops sit, where farms spread, and which colonists fight and which keep farming through the alarm. Difficulty and raid settings can be tuned, including turning raiders off entirely, so you choose between a quiet farming life and a settlement that has to earn it.
Leave home to quest and conquer
The colony is only half the loop. You cut down trees, mine and process ores, pick herbs and harvest defeated monsters, then craft walls, furniture, armor, weapons, trinkets and potions across many workshops.
Beyond the fences sit deep dungeons, varied biomes, pirate kings, dragons and fallen wizards. You can explore freely or take quests, pick archer, melee or magic gear, and play alone, in co-op, or on a dedicated server where threats scale to the group. Separate competing colonies or one giant shared town is your call.
What else should you know?
Can you play it solo?
Yes. You can play alone, in co-op with friends, or on a dedicated server, and the world adapts its threats to the mode you choose.
Do settlers work on their own?
Yes. Once assigned, settlers work fields, tend animals and gather resources without needing constant attention, and their output helps prepare your next expedition.
Can you change how hard the colony life is?
Yes. You can customise difficulty and gameplay rules, including day and night cycle length, boss battle difficulty, and whether raiders attack your settlement at all.
What can you craft?
Some unique equipment only drops from special enemies, the rest comes through workshops as you find new resources.
