Games like Ancient Cities
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Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!
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$24.99Dawn of Man
Mar 1 · Madruga Works
Both: City Builder · Survival · Historical
Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalStrategySimulationHistoricalSandboxSingleplayerOpen WorldEconomy👍 17,093
-30%$34.99Cities: Skylines II
Oct 24 · Iceflake Studios, Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Realistic · Moddable
Raise a city from the ground up and transform it into a thriving metropolis with the most realistic city builder ever. Push your creativity and problem-solving to build on a scale you've never experienced. With deep simulation and a living economy, this is world-building without limits.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingSandboxManagementSingleplayerEconomyStrategyRealisticModdable👍 64,269
$29.99New Cycle
Jan 18 · Core Engage
Both: City Builder · Survival · Realistic
New Cycle is a city building game with focus on survival. After an apocalyptic series of solar flares, human society has been thrown into disarray. Establish a settlement and develop it all the way from humble beginnings to industrial metropolis.
City BuilderStrategySurvivalBuildingColony SimPost-apocalypticRealisticSimulationBase BuildingTop-Down👍 2,602
$19.99Banished
Feb 18 · Shining Rock Software LLC
Both: City Builder · Survival
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
City BuilderColony SimStrategySimulationSurvivalIndieSingleplayerSandboxMedievalResource Management👍 37,899
-75%$5.37Settlement Survival
Oct 24 · Gleamer Studio
Both: City Builder · Survival
In this city-building game, you will lead a group of survivors in their search for a new home. Manipulate the landscape, manage limited supplies, plant crops, hunt wildlife, gather resources, and develop trade routes to build a bustling and unique town.
City BuilderBuildingColony SimSurvivalManagementSimulationSandboxExplorationStrategyResource Management👍 7,708
-80%$2.79Seeds of Resilience
Jun 13 · Subtle Games
Both: City Builder · Survival
Ready to start anew? Build a village from scratch in Seeds of Resilience. Learn to choose the right items, understand nature's patterns, use real life-based constructions and craft techniques in this turn-based tycoon game.
City BuilderColony SimBuildingSurvivalSandboxBase BuildingManagementEconomyNatureStrategy👍 257
$24.99Citadelum
Oct 17 · Abylight Barcelona
Both: Moddable · City Builder
Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
ModdableSingleplayerCity BuilderRomeResource ManagementBuildingSandboxAuto BattlerSimulationLevel Editor👍 1,006
$9.99CivCity: Rome
Apr 6 · FireFly Studios, Firaxis Games
Both: City Builder · Historical
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in Rome itself!
City BuilderStrategyRomeSimulationHistoricalSingleplayerSandboxResource ManagementManagement👍 814
-40%$14.99Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
Sep 16 · Coreffect Interactive
Both: City Builder · Survival
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
City BuilderColony SimSurvivalCraftingRomeOpen WorldStrategySingleplayerCombatBuilding👍 742
$29.99Going Medieval
Mar 17 · Foxy Voxel
Both: Survival · City Builder
Build and manage your own castle settlement in a land reclaimed by wilderness. With detailed management, survival strategy, and a moddable sandbox world, Going Medieval challenges you to build the mightiest colony this side of the apocalypse.
Colony SimBase BuildingStrategyVoxelSurvivalManagementCity BuilderSingleplayerSandboxNature👍 17,036
$29.99Cities: Skylines
Mar 10 · Colossal Order
Both: City Builder · Moddable
Cities: Skylines is a modern take on the classic city simulation. The game introduces new game play elements to realize the thrill and hardships of creating and maintaining a real city whilst expanding on some well-established tropes of the city building experience.
City BuilderSimulationBuildingManagementStrategySandboxSingleplayerEconomyModdableResource Management👍 220,509
$22.99Pharaoh™: A New Era
Feb 15 · Triskell Interactive
Both: City Builder · Historical
The legendary city-builder returns! Lead the creation of one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever seen in this HD remake with modernized UI. Build monuments, manage your population and explore 4,000 years of history through over a hundred hours of gameplay.
City BuilderBuildingManagementSimulationColony SimEconomyHistoricalResource ManagementTradingStrategy👍 4,812
$34.99Farthest Frontier
Oct 23 · Crate Entertainment
Both: City Builder · Historical
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
BuildingCity BuilderStrategyResource ManagementMedievalAgricultureEconomyHistorical4XColony Sim👍 24,456
$9.99Caesar™ IV
Aug 29 · Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Both: City Builder · Historical
Starting as governor of a newly formed province in the Roman Empire your goal is simple: advance up the empire's political ladder to become the next Caesar.
StrategyCity BuilderSimulationRomeHistoricalSingleplayerManagementEconomy👍 821
-75%$4.99Before We Leave
May 13 · Balancing Monkey Games
Both: City Builder · Relaxing
Before We Leave is a city building game set in a cozy corner of the universe. Nurture your Peeps and their surroundings while rebuilding and rediscovering civilisation. Settle new lands and planets while avoiding hungry Space Whales.
City BuilderCasualEconomyRelaxingHex GridFamily FriendlyResource ManagementAtmosphericBuildingSingleplayer👍 1,278
-90%$2.49Siege Survival: Gloria Victis
May 18 · Black Eye Games
Both: City Builder · Immersive Sim · Survival
A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.
SingleplayerCity BuilderImmersive SimResource ManagementSurvivalStrategyEconomyIsometricTime ManagementMedieval👍 1,368
$13.99Landnama
Jul 30 · Sonderland
Both: Survival · City Builder · Historical
Face the judgment of winter’s deadly toll as you lead the first Viking clans to settle Iceland in this non-violent, rogue-lite survival base builder.
RogueliteSurvivalPuzzleCity BuilderStrategyColony SimBase BuildingHex GridHistoricalExploration👍 439
$29.99Sengoku Dynasty
Nov 7 · Superkami
Both: City Builder · Survival
Sengoku Dynasty is the ultimate feudal Japan experience: build villages, grow your community, and shape the open world through combat or economy. The choice is yours alone - or that of up to 4 players in multiplayer co-op!
City BuilderSurvivalOpen WorldBase BuildingMedievalLife SimMultiplayerBuildingCraftingRPG👍 6,594
$32.00MEMORIAPOLIS
Apr 30 · 5PM Studio
Both: City Builder · Immersive Sim · Historical
Memoriapolis is a historical city builder where your city grows organically across 5 ages, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Manage resources, interact with factions, and shape your dynasty toward building a final Wonder with easy, normal, or hard difficulty levels.
City BuilderExplorationColony SimPolitical SimBuildingStrategyImmersive SimManagementBase BuildingHistorical👍 1,753
$9.99WAR PARTY
Mar 28 · Rogueside
Both: Historical · City Builder
War Party is a strategy game where you enter a prehistoric world of Dinosaurs, Cavemen and Magic! Build up your chosen faction, gather resources, explore the land and command them against enemy tribes and wildlife! Will your story be about Life, Death or Balance? Can you survive?
StrategyRTSBase BuildingReal-TimeResource ManagementWarHistoricalDinosaursCity BuilderTactical👍 376
$14.99Oxygen
Apr 7 · Turquoise Revival Games
Both: City Builder · Survival · Realistic
Oxygen is a survival city builder. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and more importantly keep the Oxygen Center running!
StrategyCity BuilderBase BuildingSimulationSurvivalResource ManagementColony SimSandbox3DRealistic👍 830
$14.99Egypt: Old Kingdom
May 24 · Clarus Victoria
Both: Survival · Historical
Strategy simulator of the Great Pyramids period, where you take your path from the unification of Egyptian tribes to the foundation of The First Empire. Developed with the assistance of Egyptologists.
IndieStrategySurvivalSingleplayerSimulationAtmosphericStory RichHistoricalBuildingDifficult👍 1,201
$59.99Sid Meier’s Civilization® VI
Oct 20 · Firaxis Games, Aspyr (Mac), Aspyr (Linux)
Both: Historical · City Builder
Expand your empire, advance your culture and go head-to-head against history’s greatest leaders. Will your civilization stand the test of time?
StrategyTurn-Based StrategyMultiplayerHistoricalGrand StrategySingleplayerTurn-Based4XCity BuilderWar👍 276,188
$2.99Bronze Age - HD Edition
Sep 25 · Clarus Victoria
Both: Survival
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
IndieSingleplayerStrategySurvivalSimulationCasualDifficultBuilding2DTurn-Based👍 368
$7.99Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Jul 8 · Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.
Both: City Builder · Historical
Children of the Nile™ is a unique gem of a city-building game, unparalleled in both grandeur and attention to detail.As Pharaoh you will guide your people through thousands of years of history: from simple hunter-gatherers to the creation of an immortal civilization.
City BuilderSimulationStrategyHistoricalManagementResource ManagementSandboxSingleplayerEconomyMythology👍 431
$4.99Towns
Nov 7 · Xavi Canal, Ben Palgi
Both: City Builder · Survival
The game brings a fresh new take on the city building/management genre by introducing many RPG features. In Towns you manage a settlement on top of an active dungeon. Instead of playing the hero who delves deep into the dungeon, how about playing the town that houses and caters to the hero's needs?
City BuilderIndieSandboxSimulationStrategyCraftingSingleplayerRPGSurvivalBuilding👍 2,400
$24.99Ostriv
Mar 19 · yevhen8
Both: City Builder · Historical
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Early AccessCity BuilderStrategySimulationHistoricalColony SimManagementBuildingBase BuildingResource Management👍 6,874
$9.99Predynastic Egypt
Oct 10 · Clarus Victoria
Both: Survival
Do you know how did Ancient Egypt looked like before the Great Pyramids? Lead the future Egyptian citizens all the way through the historical hardships to the Unification of Lower and Upper Egypt, and you will find out!
IndieStrategySingleplayerSimulationSurvivalAtmosphericStory RichBuildingDifficult2D👍 1,820
$29.99Nova Roma
Mar 26 · Lion Shield
Both: City Builder · Historical
The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
StrategySimulationCity BuilderBase BuildingGrand StrategyHistoricalManagementBuildingSandboxEconomy👍 2,093
-20%$15.99Pathless Woods
Apr 2 · AniYa Games Studio
Both: Survival · City Builder
Embark on a cozy open-world survival journey inspired by ancient China's heritage. Gather resources, cultivate crops, build your dream home, and defend it from marauders. Team up with friends to explore and uncover a world where adventure meets serenity.
Open WorldCraftingSurvivalSandboxSimulationFarming SimBuildingCity BuilderBase Building3D👍 951
$24.99Sapiens
Jul 26 · Majic Jungle
Both: City Builder · Survival
Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.
Early AccessColony SimCity BuilderGod GameBase BuildingBuildingSurvivalCraftingManagementLife Sim👍 2,054
$34.99Foundation
Jan 31 · Polymorph Games
Both: City Builder · Relaxing
Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.
City BuilderSimulationMedievalStrategySandboxManagementResource ManagementBuildingRelaxingEconomy👍 23,045
$19.99Nebuchadnezzar
Feb 17 · Nepos Games
Both: City Builder · Historical
Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.
City BuilderSandboxBuildingEconomyManagementTradingIsometricStrategyHistoricalRTS👍 1,444


