POLDERS
A Dutch City Builder
The Dutchest City Builder Imaginable
POLDERS is a sandbox city builder in which you face the sea as a 17th-century Dutch Dike Master. Equipped with crooked canal houses and powerful windmills, you transform a swampy no-man’s land into a self-sustaining town bustling with trade.
After a terrible storm, it is up to you to build dikes, windmills and sluices, drain the water, and turn your broken hamlet into a proud trading city. Every building is based on a real Dutch monument or on a painting by masters such as Vermeer and Van Ruisdael.
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Fight the sea
Build and maintain dikes, sluices and drainage windmills. Forget to check your defences, and the sea will flood your town without mercy.
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Make your own polders
Drain enclosed water with windmills to win new land. Canals improve houses, windmills want open land, and before you know it you have rebuilt the Dutch landscape, block by block.
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Walk the world you build
You don’t hover above your town: you walk among the villagers, farming and carrying goods, until new buildings automate it all and your trading city runs itself.
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Real monuments
Every building is modelled on a real Dutch national monument or a Golden Age painting. Shaders inspired by Vermeer and Van Ruisdael capture the Dutch light and vast skies.