Path to Prosperity is a first-person RTS game, allowing you to control your base and people from the ground. Design and build your base, let your workers collect resources and produce goods, and raise armies to fight your competitors. Re-invest your coin wisely and send enough back home to win.

## About This Game
## Setting
In Path to Prosperity, you are sent to the small village on a newly discovered
island in order to develop the settlement and create a thriving industry. In
order to win, you have to amass wealth, and send a predetermined amount of
coin back to your homeland. But every development costs coin, and you have to
constantly assess whether an investment is going to pay off for you in the
long run. You start with only few houses and villagers, and let your people
collect food and resources for you until you can support more villagers. Build
up your logistics and start producing goods you can sell. Continuously
increase the size of your economy and settlement, and make sure you can defend
what you have created, while ensuring you are more efficient than your
opponents!
## Competitors
While you only have pirates to content with in singleplayer, you can play
against up to 3 friends in multiplayer. The first to send home the agreed upon
amount of coin wins – but if you do too well, your competitors may choose to
spend their coin on soldiers to attack you. Every investment needs to be
weighed and often the person who seemed to be falling behind can end up on
top.
## First Person Perspective
In Path to Prosperity, you are thrown into the shoes of a commander on an
island – with all advantages and disadvantages this brings with it. Unlike in
a traditional RTS, you can’t zoom out to get a better feeling for the land, or
see an opponent’s army advance from halfway across the map. So exploration,
anticipating your opponents moves, securing chokepoints, and staying on top of
what is happening on the island is paramount to secure victory. Having your
boots on the ground also means that you can quickly leap in to make important
changes, however, so you can cut down a tree if your villagers are slow to
collect wood; you can build that house next to your new mine; or take out a
gun to help fend off the pirates – just make sure to not get distracted from
the bigger picture!
## Build your settlement
The most efficient way of getting things done on the island is by using your
villagers to collect resources, produce goods, and defend what you have
created. Every house you place provides additional room for villagers, and
every villager uses food. Make sure that your food production and deliveries
to your markets are always secure to avoid your peoples’ starvation. Should
your villagers die, they will come back on the next ship – but you will have
to reallocate their jobs and the disruption may just mean that your
competitors overtake you. Once your settlement is large enough, you can use
buildings like the bathhouse or cafe to increase your peoples’ productivity
and make your city look much more appropriate for your achievements.
## Explore and find riches
Every island has riches hidden in the jungle. A node system spawns random
loot, ore veins, and pirates of different value and threat throughout the map.
Exploring the island can not only give you a better lay of the land, but can
also provide your settlement with early advantages, or lead to the discovery
of a gold or gem vein that you can exploit. But balance your exploration
carefully – the existence of a rich vein is not guaranteed, and you may be
better off managing your settlement instead. Conversely, ignoring what the
island has to offer may allow your competitors to win without your
intervention.
## The seed market
Traders offer seeds for nutritional and luxury crops at your port. The seeds
are randomised in each game and you have to adapt to what is available. The
market is also limited in quantity, so any seed you buy is unavailable for
your competitor and vice versa. Choose carefully whether you invest in a crop
early on, or whether it is better for you to go with cheaper, less profitable
industries to begin with. Additional crops will become available to you when
you have submitted a quarter, half, and three-quarter of the required coin to
your Queen, so time your submissions to reap the most rewards.

Path to Prosperity