Find your foothold.
Read the coastline, make landfall and choose where a new settlement will begin.
In development · Alpha 1
After the thaw,
After the thaw,
a new beginning.
Sail into an unfamiliar Arctic world. Find a shore, establish a settlement and build an economy that connects the land to the sea.
Illustrated main-menu scenery from the game · not a gameplay capture
An expedition of your own
A colony is more than a place on the map.
Meltwater is a single-player, turn-based colony strategy sandbox. Your expedition is the beginning; what you build on shore gives the voyage its purpose.
Put the colony to work.
Assign people, produce food and materials, and decide what to build next.
Carry your trade by sea.
Turn local production into cargo. Sail to market, buy what you need and bring it home.
Land and sea, one economy
The voyage does not end at landfall.
A settlement needs food. Construction needs materials. A ship needs cargo worth carrying. Every new opportunity asks something of the colony you already have.
Take your time. Make a plan. Then see what the next turn brings.
From a ship to a settlement
Begin with a shore. Build from there.
Arrival
Explore aboard your starting ship.
Landfall
Bring the expedition ashore.
Settlement
Assign workers and begin production.
First export
Load goods and make the voyage to market.
People who shape the expedition
Meet the Legends.
Aki Northstar helps ships and scouts go farther. Tala Greenwood improves the timber available to a settlement. The Legends offer different ways to develop your colony as its civic influence grows.
The expedition so far
A foundation, still growing.
Alpha 1 is an accepted source milestone. A packaged public download is not available yet. Explore what exists today and the design work beyond it.