Games Like 7 Grand Steps: What Ancients Begat

Create your own epic saga of survival, mythology and diplomacy! Rule your clan, make strategic decisions that affect the game world, win battles and expand your influence in this unique mix of RPG, strategy and story-telling.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 28%, Interactive Fiction 26.9%, Text-Based 18.3%, Story Rich 14.3%, Adventure 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This classic title perfectly captures the generational, tribe-management, and narrative-heavy gameplay found in 7 Grand Steps.

Life between myths. Lead the Riders clan into legend or obscurity as you explore an ancient world. Plan ahead as you navigate this challenging storybook strategy game, immersing you in the land of old gods and magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Why similar: Turn-Based 34.3%, Interactive Fiction 28.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.5%, Story Rich 10.9%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: As a spiritual successor to King of Dragon Pass, it offers deep, choice-driven tribal survival and generational storytelling.

Survive as the last horse riders as the world ends and myths die. Plan ahead and manage your clan’s relationships with the remaining gods and their followers in this standalone survival storybook. Immerse yourself in the land of magic also seen in King of Dragon Pass.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 43.5%, Story Rich 34.4%, Simulation 19%, Singleplayer 3.1%

Why You'll Like It: It continues the legacy of its predecessor with refined mechanics for managing a clan through historical and mythological challenges.

A narrative-driven hardcore RPG set in a gritty world ruled by real but unrelenting gods. Set out on a challenging lifetime journey, where every choice has a price and entails consequences. Will you become an inquisitor, a judge, or conspire against the old order? Dare to decide!

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 28.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 24.7%, Text-Based 18.1%, Story Rich 14.8%, Simulation 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game excels at the interactive fiction aspect, forcing players to make high-stakes choices that define a character's entire life path.

Life sim set in the Ancient Roman Republic. Experience life and events in Ancient Rome through multiple generations of a family, helping them grow from lowly commoners to mighty Senators. Long live the Republic!

Why similar: Political Sim 30.4% ★, Historical 23.2%, Life Sim 19.9%, Text-Based 15.7%, Simulation 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: This life-simulation game focuses on managing a Roman family dynasty across generations, mirroring the generational scope of the seed game.

Niche - a genetics survival game is a turn-based strategy game combined with simulation and roguelike elements. Shape your own species of animals based on real genetics. Keep your species alive against all odds, such as predators, climate change and spreading sickness.

Why similar: Turn-Based 37.2%, Board Game 30%, Puzzle 14.1%, Adventure 8.2%, Simulation 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the survival of a species through generations, emphasizing genetics and environmental adaptation similar to the themes of 7 Grand Steps.

Wildermyth follows heroes over their whole careers, from their pitchfork days to their powerful primes, and on into old age and memory. It’s a party-based procedural storytelling RPG where tactical combat and story decisions will alter your world and reshape your cast of characters.

Why similar: Turn-Based 60.8%, Story Rich 30.5%, Indie 5.3%, Singleplayer 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features procedural, generational storytelling where characters age, evolve, and leave legacies that impact future gameplay.

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!

Why similar: Turn-Based 36.3%, Historical 29.7%, Story Rich 11.2%, Simulation 9%, Indie 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: This historical simulation captures the feeling of guiding a civilization through its earliest stages of development.

As a judge of the Revolutionary Tribunal, preside over complicated cases of ordinary citizens, dangerous criminals, and enemies of the revolution in revolutionary Paris. Make judgments, plot political intrigue, and try to not lose your own head!

Why similar: Political Sim 31.4% ★, Turn-Based 20.7%, Historical 19.6%, Point & Click 8.5%, Story Rich 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends historical narrative with complex decision-making, forcing you to balance political survival with personal morality.

Live through an epic role-playing Viking saga where your strategic choices directly affect your personal journey. Make allies as you travel with your caravan across this stunning yet harsh landscape. Carefully choose those who will help fight a new threat that jeopardizes an entire civilization.

Why similar: Turn-Based 75.8%, Story Rich 13.5%, Indie 5.7%, 2D 1.9%, Adventure 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: This game combines tactical combat with a heavy emphasis on difficult, narrative-altering decisions across a multi-generational journey.

Assume the role of President Anton Rayne and guide the nation of Sordland. Amidst brewing international conflicts, need for reform, deep-seated corruption, and economic recession, you must make the decisions in this political drama. How will you lead?

Why similar: Political Sim 33.1% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 18.7%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Text-Based 12.9%, Point & Click 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deep, text-based political simulation where your choices have long-lasting consequences for the history of your nation.

Turn-based historical simulation strategy. Develop the Greek civilization from the small village to the great city-state when it will dominate the world!

Why similar: Turn-Based 34.6%, Historical 26.7%, Time Management 14.5%, Simulation 7.8%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that tasks you with guiding a small village into a great civilization through historical eras.

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.

Why similar: Turn-Based 38.7%, Historical 32.3%, Story Rich 11.8%, Simulation 8.6%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that emphasizes the survival and growth of a civilization through historical events and management decisions.

Ancient Cities is a realistic, survival city builder in an immersive procedural environment. Lead the fate of your tribe through ancient times!

Why similar: Historical 69.2%, Simulation 16.8%, Adventure 7.9%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A city-builder that emphasizes historical accuracy and the long-term survival of a population through the ages.

Lead an ancient and crumbling noble house in a rich gunpowder fantasy setting. Lie, bribe, and conspire to secure power and prestige – or to save a doomed kingdom from itself.

Why similar: Political Sim 44.5% ★, Text-Based 16.3%, Interactive Fiction 14.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.7%, Casual 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: An intricate text-based political simulation that rewards careful decision-making and long-term planning.

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!

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.9%, Historical 26.6%, Time Management 15.5%, Simulation 7.7%, Indie 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title focuses on the survival and development of early civilizations, aligning well with the historical themes of the seed game.

These are troubling times, Your Grace. The petitioners’ petty matters exceed our limited resources, to say nothing of the war. A careful balance must be struck. Your throne awaits.

Why similar: Turn-Based 25.1%, Historical 19.6%, Life Sim 18.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 15%, Story Rich 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a kingdom through narrative choices, requiring you to balance the needs of your family and your subjects.

Ancient Life is a game that simulates the life of ancient people. The game contains various events that may have occurred in ancient times. Players can choose to farm, be an official, craftsman, be a hunter, be a merchant, and have different occupations.

Why similar: Historical 31.2%, Text-Based 20.4%, Life Sim 16.5%, Story Rich 10.1%, Stylized 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A text-based life simulation that allows players to experience the life of a person in ancient times, focusing on choices and outcomes.

A life simulator that leans heavily into the personal finance aspect. Pay taxes, take out mortgages, trade stocks, buy real estate, start businesses, or grind your way to victory as an employee.

Why similar: Time Management 34.5%, Life Sim 30.8%, Text-Based 21.5%, Simulation 6.7%, 2D 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A management simulation that explores the complexities of capitalism and life choices, mirroring the survival-oriented gameplay of 7 Grand Steps.

Rule the world or die trying!Being a Princess is not an easy job. Being a Queen is even harder. Especially when you're only fourteen years old, and the reason you've inherited the throne is that your royal mother has just met an untimely end.Now power is up for grabs.

Why similar: Political Sim 74.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.5%, Simulation 6.7%, Indie 3.3%, Story Rich 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes, choice-based narrative game where every decision determines whether your character survives to rule or meets an early end.

In this strategic rogue-like you become a famous expedition leader in the 19th century. You form your own crew with the skills and personality to discover legendary treasures, while exploring randomized locations and stories on every new adventure.

Why similar: Turn-Based 72.2%, Adventure 11.5%, Indie 7.2%, 2D 4.2%, Singleplayer 3.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its board-game aesthetic and focus on exploration and narrative events provide a similar feel to the interactive board-game style of 7 Grand Steps.

This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.

Why similar: Board Game 57%, Historical 33.3%, 2D 6.7%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a tabletop-inspired approach to civilization management that feels very similar to the abstract board-game style of the seed.

Survive ambitious rulers dreaming of an empire, outsmart treacherous neighbors longing to burn your spoils, and navigate the religion’s predictably unreasonable demands; you need ask only one question as you build your legacy – “Will you burn them, or be burnt?”

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 34.9%, Simulation 18.9%, Adventure 11.8%, Casual 11.7%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: It combines historical strategy with a unique, board-game-like visual style and narrative events.

Ancient Egypt cards. Master power, wealth, faith and life. Work your way up from a small tribe to a flourishing Empire. Win the Gods' favor and become the mightiest Pharaoh.

Why similar: Board Game 32.7%, Historical 24.2%, Point & Click 13.4%, Indie 9.6%, Puzzle 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that utilizes card-based mechanics to simulate the growth and survival of a civilization.

WAW is a unique historical strategy turn-based game, in a boardgame spirit, which aims at simulating in one single system ALL kind of wars and conflicts throughout the world (and beyond) from Prehistoric times to nowadays, on the operational or strategic levels.

Why similar: Board Game 42.9%, Turn-Based 30.9%, Historical 16.6%, Indie 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that uses a board-game interface to simulate historical conflicts and their outcomes.

Become the King in a story-driven 8-bit style game, where choice matters. And try not to die instantly...

Why similar: Political Sim 41.8% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 20.3%, Historical 19.5%, Story Rich 9.1%, Simulation 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the management of a kingdom through a series of choose-your-own-adventure style events.

Seize forbidden treasures. Summon alien gods. Feed on your disciples. Cultist Simulator is a game of apocalypse and yearning. Play as a seeker after unholy mysteries, in a 1920s-themed setting of hidden gods and secret histories.

Why similar: Board Game 47.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 28.1%, Story Rich 13.7%, Simulation 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: Its abstract, card-based narrative style captures the experimental and interactive-fiction nature of the seed game.

Congratulations. The October labor lottery is complete. Your name was pulled. For immediate placement, report to the Ministry of Admission at Grestin Border Checkpoint. An apartment will be provided for you and your family in East Grestin. Expect a Class-8 dwelling.

Why similar: Point & Click 30.9%, Simulation 17.1%, Indie 14.1%, Story Rich 12.2%, Puzzle 10%

Why You'll Like It: While different in setting, it shares the intense, choice-driven narrative survival mechanics that define the experience of 7 Grand Steps.

Retirement Simulator is a game that simulates the retirement life. Customize your retirement and realize your ultimate goals: become a world traveller, an influencer, a KungFu Master or more. Through discovering stories and events, you will also deepen your bonds with your familiy and the community.

Why similar: Life Sim 24.1%, Time Management 21.8%, Interactive Fiction 19.1%, Story Rich 11.5%, Simulation 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This life-simulation game focuses on the narrative arc of a character's later years, emphasizing the importance of life choices.

Start as a humble commoner and guide your family through generations in this family sim meets city builder. Climb the ranks of society to become the most influential family in the land. With wit, strategy, and a bit of luck, build your legacy - just try not to trip over your ambition!

Why similar: Political Sim 28.6% ★, Historical 22.2%, Life Sim 19.9%, Story Rich 7.9%, Stylized 7%

Experience romantic Regency England in this sumptuous solitaire game. Play your cards right as you tour historic London, Brighton and Bath, and help Bella create a dazzling ballroom. Unlock gameplay features with your makeover project and improve Bella’s chances of finding true love!

Why similar: Board Game 44.3%, Historical 31%, Puzzle 11.1%, Story Rich 9.9%, Casual 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It uses a card-based board game mechanic to tell a compelling, choice-driven story set in a historical period.

Guide your very own civilization's destiny in this abstract strategy sim. Master a complex node system, overcome unique challenges, and evolve your society from humble beginnings to the mastery of the atom. Can your civilization *really* withstand the test of time?

Why similar: Political Sim 32.6% ★, Historical 28.5%, Abstract 26.1%, Simulation 7%, Indie 2.4%

Trapped in the past, your survival hinges on your ability to adapt and innovate. From foraging for food to mastering the art of technology, every decision you make shapes your destiny. Will you return to your own time, or make the past your new future in this mind-bending survival game?

Why similar: Historical 42.6%, Text-Based 26.8%, Puzzle 13.3%, 2D 7.1%, Casual 5.4%

A narrative simulation game where you play as a mother-to-be working as a toll keeper in the fictional country of Janapa, a nation on the brink of chaos. Navigate daily challenges and make difficult moral choices to survive—all for the sake of your unborn child.

Why similar: Life Sim 28%, Interactive Fiction 26.4%, Point & Click 17%, Simulation 10%, Stylized 9.9%

Under The Yoke is a 2D medieval peasant life-sim. Make your mark in the Domesday book as you control a family of serfs through 250 years of English history. Cultivate your lands, craft goods and hone your reputation as you navigate the tumultuous Middle Ages. Your family’s future is yours to shape!

Why similar: Historical 36.5%, Life Sim 27%, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.2%, Simulation 10.8%, 2D 2.2%

Create your own nation in Millennia, a historical turn-based 4X game that challenges your strategic prowess across 10,000 years of history, from the dawn of humanity to our possible futures.

Why similar: Turn-Based 47.8%, Historical 38.5%, Simulation 10.3%, Singleplayer 3.4%

Live the life of a Monster, from birth to elderhood and beyond, making decisions that affect the world of Monsters and Humans. Solve problems. Meet animals and interesting people. Get to know them. Eat them. Make your own story!

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 30.4%, Text-Based 12%, Life Sim 11.9%, Simulation 10.3%, Casual 7.3%

A colony-building game combined with grand strategy elements. Play as a tribal leader, guiding your people from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age. Survive, multiply, and compete for territory among ancient nations.

Why similar: Historical 79.9%, Simulation 14.7%, Singleplayer 5.4%

A historical sandbox simulation where every NPC lives their own life. They don't wait for you—they ally, marry, betray, and die. Kingdoms rise and fall by someone's will. Sometimes you shape history, sometimes it sweeps you away—an observer of a once-in-a-lifetime story that only you can witness.

Why similar: Historical 37.8%, Life Sim 35.9%, Story Rich 13%, Simulation 10.1%, Singleplayer 3.2%

A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!

Why similar: Historical 35.3%, Life Sim 31.6%, Simulation 10.5%, Casual 5.5%, 2D 5.3%

Step into the shoes of a fallen clan leader, starting with nothing but a crumbling estate and a handful of hopes, rising through careful planning, trade, and diplomacy to become one of the most powerful families in the land. Now it’s time to forge a legendary dynasty that leaves its mark on history.

Why similar: Historical 43.6%, Life Sim 28.7%, Simulation 13.3%, Adventure 5.7%, 2D 5.3%

Turn-based kingdom management simulator focused on decision-making. Will you survive and lead the kingdom to prosperity, or die in agony? The throne awaits.

Why similar: Historical 55.4%, Story Rich 15.8%, Simulation 13.8%, 2D 11%, Singleplayer 4%

The Mysterious Afterlife Journey And The Favorite Pastime Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun. Don't Miss The Opportunity To Play The World's Oldest Board Game From Ancient Egypt.

Why similar: Board Game 26.3%, Historical 22.1%, Turn-Based 21.2%, Life Sim 14.3%, Puzzle 5.5%

Unique combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Explore the ancient world and build a world leading civilization. Survive, expand, conquer... and win!

Why similar: Historical 82.3%, Simulation 17.7%

A money-focused life simulator. Create characters with allergies and addictions. Manage their lives through financial booms and busts. Advance their careers, start a small business, invest in real estate and stocks - or roleplay a penniless hobo.

Why similar: Life Sim 35.5%, Time Management 33.5%, Text-Based 14.8%, Simulation 12.3%, 2D 2.5%

As a judge of the Kobardde court, solve complex cases inspired by actual events. Your decisions will directly affect people's (and perhaps yours) lives. You may have to make difficult decisions for your family, country, and life. What kind of judge will you be?

Why similar: Political Sim 49.7% ★, Choose Your Own Adventure 22.3%, Text-Based 10.1%, Simulation 4.8%, Story Rich 4.4%

Play as the leader of a civilization, make it prosper and stand the test of time. Orbi Universo is a strategy/simulation game in which you manage your civilization with an abstract and complex node system and you make your society evolve through different periods, from cavemen to the Modern Era.

Why similar: Historical 41.1%, Abstract 35.9%, Simulation 11.2%, Indie 5.8%, 2D 3.7%

Dyscourse is an interactive choice-based narrative adventure game where you journey through a stylized world of choice and consequence. Choose wisely.

Why similar: Choose Your Own Adventure 47%, Simulation 16.2%, Adventure 14.2%, Indie 11.3%, Casual 9.3%

Survive the ever increasing pressure of time for as long as you can! A minimalistic incremental game about time management that takes inspiration from roguelite games, with a focus on meta-progression. Every generation has a better chance at survival, because previous lives influence its instincts

Why similar: Time Management 44%, Text-Based 23.6%, Point & Click 18.4%, Indie 4.6%, 2D 4.3%

A travel-sim with strategic gameplay and rogue-lite elements. Play as travelers in ancient China. Experience great views on various locations. Write travel literature that long lives in history.

Why similar: Historical 43.6%, Simulation 21.6%, Adventure 20.4%, Indie 5.8%, 2D 5%

A card game in a Medieval setting where you make decisions on which not only your life will depend, but also the future of the kingdom!

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.3%, Life Sim 22.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21%, Simulation 5.3%, Indie 4.1%

"Age of Gladiators" is a single-player strategy/management sim set at the height of the bloody gladiatorial games in ancient Rome. As your fighters increase in level, it will be up to you to decide how to forge their attributes and abilities.

Why similar: Turn-Based 33.4%, Historical 26.2%, Text-Based 16.1%, Simulation 9.3%, Casual 4.8%

Incremental clicker strategy, where you expand, construct, research, fight, collect heroes and make choices between good and evil. Ascend through difficulty tiers by playing through challenge campaign going back and forth through history. Mammoths included.

Why similar: Historical 83.4%, Singleplayer 5.8%, Indie 5.7%, 2D 5%

Waking up alone in a derelict terraforming facility on an unknown (and distinctly not terraformed) planet, it's up to you to find a way to survive, learn what happened to the people who lived here and why you were abandoned in this narrative-driven incremental game.

Why similar: Time Management 27.8%, Text-Based 26.1%, Interactive Fiction 21.3%, Story Rich 10.8%, Puzzle 7.5%

The original roguelike/4X strategy game where every turn is one year of your life. Explore, find a mate, build a home, and raise a child before you die to keep your legacy going. Praised as "the offspring of Sid Meier's Civilization, Passage, and The Legend of Zelda." IndieCade Finalist.

Why similar: Turn-Based 37.9%, Indie 24.7%, Simulation 21.4%, Adventure 6.2%, 2D 5.5%

Kingdom's Life - Large turn-based global strategy game in pixel style. You have to create your own people and state. Can you lead the state to political, economic, technological and military triumph? It depends on you.

Why similar: Political Sim 52.8% ★, Historical 27.3%, Simulation 8.9%, 2D 4.6%, Indie 2.7%

A multiplayer survival game of parenting and civilization building. Get born to another player as your mother. Live an entire life in one hour. Have babies of your own in the form of other players. Leave a legacy for the next generation as you help to rebuild civilization from scratch.

Why similar: Life Sim 66.2%, Simulation 21.5%, Indie 12.3%

Marble Age is a turn-based historical strategy where your task is to turn a small Ancient Greek village into a flourishing Polis, powerful enough to conquer the known world!

Why similar: Turn-Based 34.6%, Historical 27.4%, Time Management 13.2%, Simulation 9%, 2D 4.4%

Nobody – The Turnaround is a life simulator set in a parallel world that echoes modern society. Manage your time and resources carefully, strive to find a way through difficult times, and overcome the predicament you find yourself in.

Why similar: Life Sim 60.4%, Simulation 15.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.1%, Story Rich 9.2%, Adventure 3.1%

A text-based RPG full of choice and action. Fight for survival in the midst of the Roman invasion of ancient Caledonia. Strategize one dice roll at a time as emotions affect your performance. Use willpower to outsmart opponents, gain allies, wage war, or strive for peace. How will your story end?

Why similar: Interactive Fiction 22%, Choose Your Own Adventure 21.1%, Text-Based 19.3%, Story Rich 13.8%, Simulation 6.9%