The premise is that you’re running a tile-based kingdom lost to malevolent shadows.

Here’s a trailer.

The price of such convenience, naturally, is that this isn’t massively elaborate by city-builder standards.

A tile-based pixelart city in the darkness from the strategy game Dawnfolk

Still, there’s a pleasant liveliness to this murky world.

Tiles burble with marketplace chatter, animal noises, and the like.

I can live without a lot of Dawnfolk’s minigames.

Still, Dawnfolk has the makings of a sweet diversion between rounds ofFarthest Frontier.

It’s out now and the demo isstill live on Steam.