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what is Hearth and Hamlet?

Build and manage a growing settlement with resource gathering, worker assignment, and policy decisions in this idle citybuilder.

Hearth and Hamlet combines incremental idle gameplay with citybuilding and policy management. Collect food, wood, and magic to expand your settlement, construct buildings, recruit soldiers, and trade with distant lands as you grow from a small camp to a thriving kingdom.

It sits in the Clicker / Idle / Management / Strategy / RPG corner of the genre. Like most idle games it runs on a simple loop — earn, reinvest, automate — but the depth is in how long that loop keeps unfolding. Expect to check in, make a few decisions, and watch the numbers climb whether you're at the keyboard or not.

New to incrementals? Read our beginner's guide first, or just hit play — these games are built to teach themselves.