Holdfast

Holdfast is a medieval colony game for one thumb. Start with four villagers and an empty field, build a keep that can survive the year, then march on the rival keep at the top of the map.

Place farms, houses, lumber lodges, quarries, walls, gates, towers and barracks. Your villagers choose their own jobs, get hungry and tired, sleep in beds at night and work slower when they are unhappy. Seasons change the land, so bank food before winter. Merchants, refugees, festivals and blight keep every year different. The rival keep sends raiders, archers and brutes at your walls, and its garrison grows every day. Train soldiers, then tap ASSAULT and destroy it to win.

Controls: tap a building in the bar and tap the grass to place it (drag to paint walls). Drag to pan, pinch or use the + and - buttons to zoom, HOME and RIVAL jump the camera. Tap a villager or building to inspect it. JOBS sets work priorities. The game saves automatically in your browser. Early build.