Build your own town and overthrow an evil queen in survival RPG Bellwright

pcgamer.com:

The demo for settlement-builder and survival RPG Bellwright got a nice reception at Steam Next Fest earlier this year, racking up enough daily players to sit at the top of the list along with games like Lies of P and Warhaven. 

For those eager to play more of it, I don't have great news: you'll unfortunately have to wait just a little bit longer to dive back in. As seen at PC Gaming Show: Most Wanted today, Bellwright (which had planned a December release) is now coming in early 2024. It'll launch into early access on Steam.

To tide you over, at least there's a new trailer showing all the stuff you'll get to do—and there's quite a lot in Bellwright to keep you busy. In a land «on the brink of collapse,» it's up to you to fight back against an oppressive monarchy, but you'll start quite humbly by picking up sticks and rocks. You'll happen across a small village of farmers, vendors, and other NPC locals, but you won't be settling down there. You're gonna build your own darn town, stick by stick and eventually brick by brick.

I played the Bellright demo myself, and the process of building a settlement is slow yet completely engrossing. I obsessed over every single little building, which I truly built one stick at a time, until I finally had a place to sleep, a hut for resource storage, and a cooking pit for food. The idea of building a whole town using the same meticulous process was daunting, but that's the thing about Bellwright: you can recruit help. Gain an NPC follower and you can put them to work in your settlement. Those tiresome little tasks like collecting rocks and herbs and mushrooms can be delegated to your new settler. They'll help you farm and build and hunt, and you can even assign them tasks at workbenches