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Advanced buildings let players automate production lines and set up empire-wide trade routes between settlements using the Trading Post.
Players recruit surviving artisans, build production buildings, keep citizens happy, and expand into specialized settlements across the world.
Progression in Romestead runs biome by biome through the Forest, Desert and Volcano, with a Plains starter region and a Swamp still in development.
Progression in Romestead is biome-based: gather resources, craft better gear, defeat bosses to unlock the next crafting tier, and advance to the next biome.
Romestead's Decoration Mode is an inventory-free system for collecting, placing, and customizing furniture and decorations to personalize towns and raise citizen happiness.
Romestead features the walking dead of fallen Rome and a set of bosses that gate progression, including five bosses in the Early Access build.
Dungeons in Romestead range from challenge rooms to named multi-floor sites with enemies, traps and puzzles, rewarding gear, weapons, trinkets and survivors. The Autumn Update added over 20 more.
Romestead supports 1 to 8 players in single-player or cooperative multiplayer, with difficulty that scales to the number of players and dedicated server software.
Romestead supports melee, ranged, and magic combat against the walking dead and other enemies, with gear, trinkets, and consumable buffs shaping each build.
Romestead launched into Early Access on May 25, 2026. This page covers what the current build includes and how the developer is approaching Early Access.
A beginner orientation to Romestead's first hours: gathering resources, establishing a settlement, and surviving the night.
After the fall of Rome the gods lost their power. Players restore them through offerings and sacrifices to unlock technologies, buffs, and upgrades.
Romestead uses a regular inventory alongside a physical system where heavy resources like lumber and rocks are real objects that must be carried, thrown, or hauled.
An overview of the core loop in Romestead, combining survival, exploration, crafting, settlement building, and combat across a day and night cycle.
How Romestead is updated during Early Access: day-one and launch-week hotfixes, the public beta branch, the 0.26.1 Autumn Update patch line, and the studio's update cadence since launch.
The world of Romestead is set after the apocalyptic fall of the Roman Empire, where the dead walk and the gods have gone silent.
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