One of the coolest upcoming city builders now has a free demo on Steam, and you should try it

pcgamer.com:

I've almost lost count of all the interesting-looking city builders coming in 2023: medieval strategy Manor Lords, urban city builder Cities: Skylines 2, and dark fantasy colony sim Gord are all due out later this year—and maybe (hopefully?) societal city builder Frostpunk 2 will join them too, though we haven't gotten official word on that yet. 

Then there's Laysara: Summit Kingdom, which is maybe the most interesting of the bunch because it just looks so cool. The city builder has an exceedingly neat twist: you're building your city on the steep cliffs of a mountaintop rising out of the clouds. Along with hazards like avalanches that can bury your town, building on the slopes of a mountain presents a lot of logistical challenges as you'll have to carefully manage your production chains and transport networks over the tricky, nearly vertical landscape.

The good news is that if you're up for the challenge, you can try it right now on Steam thanks to its first free demo. 

I've been playing the demo and it's really neat, especially since you can zoom out and rotate the mountain around in 3D to access building opportunities on all sides of it. And it doesn't take long to get a sense of how tricky, not to mention how lovely, the game is. 

For instance, the upper levels of the mountain provided me a great spot to mine for copper to turn into utensils, as well as fertile lands where I could build bee farms to generate honey. But all those goods need to be able to reach the markets I've built on the lower levels of the mountain, so I had to build a network of roads, bridges, and motorized shafts, and use them to set up supply chains to make sure my resources could get to where they're needed. Naturally, those supply chains need