Brave New Wonders, a post-apocalyptic factory automation and base-building strategy game from Toronto-based City From Naught Inc., has launched on PC. Released Sept. 21, 2026, the indie title combines large-scale production systems with exploration, combat and armies of intelligent automatons that can be directed using text instructions.
Set in a distant future after the collapse of civilization, the game tasks players with expanding into a ruined world while investigating what happened to the society that came before them.
Brave New Wonders Blends Factory Automation and Strategy
At the center of Brave New Wonders is a combination of factory management, base construction and strategic exploration.
Players establish and expand industrial operations by gathering raw materials, constructing production facilities and designing increasingly complex manufacturing networks. Those resources can then be transformed into machines capable of expanding the player’s reach across the post-apocalyptic landscape.
Automation plays a major role in the experience, allowing players to develop interconnected production systems as their settlement grows.
The game also places an emphasis on exploration. Beyond building factories, players can send units into unknown areas to investigate abandoned locations, gather resources and discover information about the civilization that once occupied the world.
Automatons Can Be Commanded With Text Instructions
One of the game’s more distinctive mechanics involves its intelligent automatons.
Players can issue simple text instructions to their robotic forces, with the system designed to accept commands in different languages. Those automatons can then carry out tasks across the game world.
Their responsibilities extend beyond factory operations. Players can send them to explore ruins, collect materials and fight enemies encountered in the wilderness.
The system creates a connection between the game’s automation mechanics and its strategy elements, with players managing both industrial expansion and the units needed to operate beyond the safety of their base.
Post-Apocalyptic World Hides the Fate of Civilization
Brave New Wonders takes place long after the old world has disappeared, although its ruins remain scattered across the environment.
Determining what happened to that civilization forms part of the game’s broader mystery. Exploration therefore serves more than a resource-gathering function, giving players opportunities to uncover clues about the events that shaped the setting.
As their operations expand, players must balance exploration with the demands of constructing and maintaining increasingly sophisticated production lines.
Factories Can Grow Into Large Production Networks
Base building begins on a relatively limited scale but can develop into sprawling automated facilities.
Players can design production lines that convert raw resources into more advanced materials and machinery. Those systems can then support further expansion, creating a cycle in which exploration provides resources and industrial growth opens additional possibilities.
The combination places Brave New Wonders within the growing factory automation genre while adding combat and strategic unit management to its core production systems.
City From Naught Releases Brave New Wonders on PC
Brave New Wonders is developed and published by City From Naught Inc., an independent game studio based in Toronto.
Founded in 2019, the studio focuses on creating immersive games across multiple genres. Its projects include the cyberpunk detective adventure Keyword 2: Nightfall and the hacking puzzle game Keyword: A Spider’s Thread, in addition to Brave New Wonders.
The new release incorporates elements of simulation, strategy, factory automation and base building within its science-fiction setting.
With Brave New Wonders now available on PC, players can build automated industrial networks, command robotic forces and explore the remnants of a fallen civilization while attempting to reshape a post-apocalyptic world.
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