A village builder / survival game.
Start out with your town center and gather food to survive. Expand your village to have farms, windmills, and houses for more people to live in. Learn how to hunt, farm and mine, and build a thriving community. Exploring, you find oases, antelopes, and the ruins of an ancient monument.
As night falls, monsters lurk in the dark and you'll need to be on your guard. Meet a strange, distant traveler along the way, and try to prevent your imminent demise . . .
Very fun and engaging, hard to walk away from.
Edit after reading some other reviews:
Yes the game is hard, but that's part of the fun of it. It's a challenge. It is absolutely possible to beat the game and yes, you will probably have to do multiple attempts before you get it right, but it would be much less interesting if you got everything right on...
Were you ever a nine-year-old with an Age of Empires II CD and absolutely no idea what you were supposed to be doing? pyramidia gave me the barest taste of what the cute, pastel-coloured, resource-focused survival game I was trying to force out of it would look like, which has now cemented it in my mind forever. The fact that it was essentially meant...