Hello! So I've been searching all over for a game I played once when I was really young, but I have yet to find anything that seems like the exact game I'm thinking of.
Here's what I remember. This game was for the PC, and I remember that in the game you start off as a couple of people looking for a place to settle. You can only see the land you've explored, while everything else is black, kinda like in Civilization. Once you find a good place, you then have to go out and search for food by either collecting berries and stuff or hunting wild animals. You also have to collect wood (I think?) to start building houses and other buildings. After a while you get other people to join your little village, and as time goes on you start to learn better technologies, like farming, building stone structures, better weapons, ect. You also have to protect your place from enemies that can try to evade as well.
The closest games that I could find were Age of Empires and Empire Earth, but neither of these look like what I was thinking of. Any ideas on what this could be?