# First Hearth — Build a living civilization

> Build a living civilization (iPhone/iPad app by Harrison Hertz.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/first-hearth/id6816007338 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Harrison Hertz](https://appshunter.io/developer/6816007340)
- Category: Games, Simulation, Strategy
- Price: $3.99
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 65 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-10-03
- Data updated: 2026-10-20

## What is First Hearth?

Begin with one person. Build a civilization.
First Hearth is a civilization, survival, and settlement-building game where every world begins with a single founder and an untouched wilderness.
Gather your first resources, establish a home, grow food, and survive long enough to turn a lonely settlement into something greater. As your population grows, build farms, workshops, schools, hospitals, roads, ports, railways, factories, and the infrastructure needed to support an increasingly complex society.
Progress from primitive beginnings through centuries of technological development toward the Machine Age. Discover new technologies, develop industry, establish trade routes, manage resources and production, and watch generations live within the civilization you created.
Explore a living world of changing seasons, wildlife, rivers, coastlines, and distant lands. Encounter other civilizations, establish relationships, trade, compete for territory, or go to war.
Build an economy
Resources move through production chains as your settlement develops from local survival into an interconnected economy. Decide where infrastructure belongs and how your civilization should grow while your people keep it running.
Shape a civilization
Expand from a handful of buildings into villages, towns, industrial centres, ports, farms, rail networks, and sprawling settlements. Your decisions determine how the world develops.
Advance through the ages
Research technologies across multiple eras, transforming what your people can build, produce, transport, and discover as centuries pass.
Follow generations
Your original founder is only the beginning. Families form, generations pass, and the settlement grows into a civilization with a history of its own.
Explore and encounter
Venture beyond your home, discover new lands and resources, encounter wildlife and other civilizations, and connect distant settlements through roads, shipping, and rail.
Return to where it began
Even after your civilization has grown far beyond its humble beginnings, your founder's original home remains part of the world. Walk through the civilization you built and see how far it has come.
First Hearth is a complete premium game.
One purchase. The complete game. No ads. No in-app purchases. No premium currency. No real-world construction timers.

## Is First Hearth safe?

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## Is First Hearth legit?

First Hearth has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for First Hearth is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 0.1.1 — 2026-10-05

First Hearth 0.1.1
• Improved logistics and resource distribution
• Improved AI civilizations so they can develop and compete more effectively
• Fixed several gameplay and balance issues

### 1.0 — 2026-10-03

No release notes.

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