Games Like Citadelum

Shape the Roman Empire in this genre-defining strategic builder game. Build cities while expanding your influence through Roman provinces. Govern using your economic prowess, diplomatic skills, or military might.

Why similar: City Builder 23.5%, Rome 18.2% ★, Economy 10.8%, Historical 10.6%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly grand Roman setting combining intricate city-building, economic management, and territorial expansion.

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.

Why similar: Moddable 19.8%, City Builder 16.7%, Historical 11.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Economy 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the exact historical setting and deep city-building mechanics centered around building a thriving classical civilization.

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

Why similar: Moddable 26.1%, City Builder 19.2%, Historical 13.5%, Resource Management 8.3%, Economy 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on deep survival-oriented historical city-building with a strong emphasis on realism, resource gathering, and generational progression.

Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!

Why similar: Rome 39.1% ★, City Builder 33.9%, Historical 13.5%, Strategy 5.8%, Simulation 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential classic Roman city-builder that heavily inspires modern titles like Citadelum with its civic management and economic chains.

Pax Augusta is probably the most authentic ancient city-building simulation. Build flourishing cities and look after your citizens. Earn gold with production and trade of goods and build impressive monuments. Strengthen your influence and become a Roman emperor!

Why similar: Rome 44.6% ★, City Builder 19.9%, Historical 13.7%, Simulation 6.9%, Resource Management 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes the bureaucratic and architectural challenges of governing an ancient Roman city while satisfying citizens and gods.

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.

Why similar: City Builder 25.4%, Historical 13.1%, Level Editor 12.9%, Building 12.4%, Economy 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deeply nostalgic and mechanically rich historical city-building experience focused on resource management and monument construction.

As Governor of a Roman Province in the time-honoured Roman Empire, its fortune very much lies in your hands. Choose one of five Roman noble families such as Caesar’s Julii with different abilities to accomplish the comprehensive missions.

Why similar: Rome 42.4% ★, City Builder 26.6%, Historical 14.1%, Strategy 6.7%, Simulation 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines urban development in ancient Rome with military campaigns and tactical combat reminiscent of Citadelum's legion battles.

Foundation is a grid-less, laidback medieval city-building game with a focus on organic development, monument construction and resource management.

Why similar: City Builder 39.3%, Resource Management 9.7%, Building 9.6%, Economy 9.5%, Sandbox 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Features organic gridless city construction and resource management that appeals to sandbox city-builder fans.

The city builder strategy game Imperium Romanum is set in the time-honoured Roman Empire. As governor of a Roman province, you will devise a strategy to build a well organised, prosperous and commanding settlement. Its fortune very much lies in your own hands.

Why similar: Rome 48.2% ★, City Builder 27%, Strategy 9.3%, Simulation 8.2%, Historical 6%

Why You'll Like It: Allows you to construct authentic Roman cities while managing complex supply chains and defending your empire from threats.

Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.

Why similar: Moddable 19.1%, City Builder 18.4%, Historical 11.5%, Economy 9.6%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers an intensely realistic resource management and city-building simulation for players who love Citadelum's economic depth.

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!

Why similar: Rome 45% ★, City Builder 34.3%, Historical 9.9%, Strategy 6.3%, Simulation 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: Lets you manage the daily lives of Roman citizens down to individual households while building an empire from the ground up.

Create and customize cities in Nebuchadnezzar, a classic isometric city-builder where careful planning and define your rise as a ruler in ancient Mesopotamia.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Moddable 17.6%, Economy 11.2%, Building 10.9%, Historical 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style isometric city builder focused on historical Mesopotamia with deep supply chain and monument-building mechanics.

Patron is a survival city builder with a unique social dynamics system. Gather and produce resources, build your fledgling village into a prosperous city and navigate the intricate social tensions before they reach boiling point.

Why similar: City Builder 25%, Moddable 19.8%, Economy 8.7%, Historical 8.5%, Building 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that tests your management skills with complex social dynamics, production chains, and citizen needs.

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!

Why similar: Rome 37.1% ★, City Builder 18%, Building 9.8%, Base Building 9.5%, Sandbox 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: Combines Roman civilization themes with colony survival mechanics and resource-gathering loops.

Sumerians is a city building game set in ancient Mesopotamia. Attract new citizens and grow by expanding your irrigation system, building walls, palaces, temples and ziggurats. Research new technologies, manage your production, hire workers, and trade.

Why similar: City Builder 23.9%, Historical 13.7%, Base Building 9.1%, Economy 9%, Resource Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the early historical city-building vibe with irrigation, farming, and trade mechanics mirroring ancient civilization struggles.

Rebuild Pompeii from the ashes and lead it through centuries of politics, intrigue, and survival. Shape laws, expand trade across the Empire, guide your city through disasters, and command legions in optional real-time battles. Your legacy begins now.

Why similar: Rome 35.2% ★, City Builder 17%, Historical 10.3%, Economy 8.9%, Base Building 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Centers around urban planning, political maneuvering, and municipal management in an ancient Roman setting.

Design and build fortresses brick by brick to stand against endless hordes of Horrors in this real-time strategy game with resource management, siege defense, and exploration. Lead from the ramparts, push back the darkness, and hold fast against the creatures of the Mist.

Why similar: Moddable 22.2%, City Builder 15.6%, Historical 11.1%, Economy 9.3%, Base Building 9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends strategic base-building and tactical defense battles that appeal to fans of Citadelum's military confrontation aspects.

El Dorado is a strategy city-building game in which you plan, build and develop your settlement to conquer Jukatan and earn the title of The Golden City. Become a leader, whom even Gods will bow to. Offer sacrifices to the Gods to earn their favor, but beware and don’t lose yourself in your riches.

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Military 12.8%, Historical 12.4%, Building 11.7%, Base Building 11%

Why You'll Like It: Mirrors Citadelum's combination of resource management, divine appeasement, and expansive city planning in a historical context.

Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece is a city management game that lets you display your strategic and economic mastery. Build your Polis from scratch, make meaningful decisions, trade, fight and expand to become the ultimate ruler.

Why similar: City Builder 29.2%, Historical 14.8%, Building 12.9%, Economy 11.2%, Sandbox 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical city management, economic strategy, and architectural design within the ancient Mediterranean.

Of Life and Land is a charming settlement-building strategy game paired with a rich simulation experience. Every animal and plant strives to find its place in nature while you lead your villagers to their future. Expand to different regions and trade with local factions to gain needed resources.

Why similar: Moddable 20.3%, City Builder 17.8%, Historical 10.2%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A charming yet complex settlement builder with deep ecosystem simulation and resource management.

Sweet Transit is a unique city builder where the railway is king. Build and automate the dream supply chain for your citizens, giving them all they need to expand quaint villages into bustling cities. Progress from steam power to diesel and beyond in this advanced train-driven experience.

Why similar: Moddable 21.3%, City Builder 15.4%, Level Editor 13.1%, Economy 8.8%, Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: Offers intricate logistical and supply network management that will satisfy players who enjoy Citadelum's resource economy.

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.

Why similar: Moddable 21.5%, City Builder 15.9%, Historical 11%, Base Building 9.2%, Economy 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A colony sim featuring vertical construction and detailed resource logistics akin to complex management games.

Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.

Why similar: Moddable 24.8%, City Builder 17.6%, Base Building 10.2%, Building 10.1%, Economy 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on intricate production and supply management chains that appeal to economic-minded city builders.

Mandate Order is a Warring States war city-builder set in ancient China. Build a stronghold, manage industries and logistics, recruit scholars from the Hundred Schools of Thought, raise armies, and command real-time tactical battles with thousands of soldiers.

Why similar: City Builder 22.5%, Military 14%, Historical 13.5%, Building 11.6%, Base Building 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy simulation where you build up infrastructure and manage territorial growth.

Civitatem is a medieval city builder where you help your villagers raise a new settlement in dangerous lands by making use of their skills and available world resources.

Why similar: City Builder 35.5%, Base Building 12.6%, Resource Management 12.1%, Building 9.6%, Simulation 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval settlement survival game focused on protecting your citizens and growing a functional economy from scratch.

Summa Expeditionis is a colony sim and base building game set in ancient Roman Empire. Follow the career of a Roman soldier from Legionnaire to Centurion. Build and manage your camp, recruit more soldiers and face the barbarians for the glory of Rome.

Why similar: Rome 35.5% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Historical 11.2%, Base Building 10.6%, Building 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on colony establishment, resource gathering, and base building in unexplored territories.

City Tales is a medieval city builder, allowing you to unleash your creativity and shape vast cities that break outside a traditional grid. Plan each district for your citizens needs and aid your companions in their tales, creating a city to be proud of!

Why similar: City Builder 31.2%, Building 17.9%, Economy 16.5%, Resource Management 13.4%, Relaxing 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A relaxing urban planning and economic simulation focused on steady town growth and resource allocation.

Become a ruler and build the ancient city of your dreams in Empire City! Unlock new opportunities for your city's prosperity, gain the support of the gods, construct grand buildings, and create unique infrastructure. Transform a small settlement into a magnificent center of civilization!

Why similar: Rome 34.9% ★, City Builder 19.2%, Historical 12.6%, Building 8.6%, Economy 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: An isometric historical city builder emphasizing growth, zoning, and citizen happiness.

Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.

Why similar: Moddable 23.1%, City Builder 15.2%, Historical 11%, Economy 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%

Forge an empire under the watchful eyes of the gods! Take care of your people, develop efficient production chains and trade with other landlords. Ensure their survival through harsh winters and disasters.

Why similar: City Builder 23%, Historical 16.1%, Economy 13.7%, Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.1%

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Why similar: City Builder 27.9%, Moddable 15%, Sandbox 12.6%, Building 11.7%, Economy 10.6%

Empire Architect is an ancient city-building real time strategy game, with elements from grand strategies sprinkled in for good measure. The levels are procedurally generated, and you have limited control over your subjects

Why similar: City Builder 23.1%, Rome 22.2% ★, Building 9.5%, Economy 8.9%, Resource Management 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides straightforward historical building and strategic expansion mechanics for casual strategy enthusiasts.

The sky city builder awaits. Create your own flying kingdom and lead it on a quest across an expansive world. Explore the varied landscape, build up a floating metropolis, aid struggling people below, uncover lost secrets and, ultimately, bring back the Airborne Kingdom legend.

Why similar: City Builder 25.8%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 13.1%, Resource Management 11.3%, Sandbox 10.3%

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.

Why similar: City Builder 32.3%, Historical 15.3%, Building 14.7%, Base Building 12.9%, Resource Management 10.9%

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.

Why similar: Rome 38.3% ★, City Builder 35.4%, Historical 12.2%, Strategy 7.5%, Simulation 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Brings the classic Roman economic and urban management formula into a 3D environment similar to modern city builders.

Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!

Why similar: Moddable 17.7%, City Builder 17.7%, Historical 12%, Base Building 10.1%, Economy 9.7%

An ecosystem City Builder in a unique world. Build your settlement, manage your workers and optimize your resources. Analyzing your environment, spreading new plants, and harvesting them are key to prosperity.

Why similar: City Builder 22.1%, Economy 13.6%, Building 11.7%, Resource Management 11.2%, Base Building 11%

Builders of Egypt is a city-building economic strategy taking place in the Nile Valley. Immerse yourself in a world full of pyramids, where you will become a part of the ancient world. Create history, be history!

Why similar: City Builder 27.5%, Historical 17.5%, Building 13.7%, Economy 12.6%, Base Building 9%

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.

Why similar: Moddable 27.9%, City Builder 18.4%, Historical 13%, Base Building 11.1%, Economy 11%

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.

Why similar: City Builder 35.9%, Building 18.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, Resource Management 9.1%, Base Building 8.9%

Inspired by the god games of old, Fata Deum lets you mold settlements and townsfolk in your image. Will you raise the settlements to splendor, or spur them on to violent debauchery and demons? Watch as a living world grows under your whims.

Why similar: Moddable 25.5%, City Builder 18.7%, Base Building 10.1%, Building 9.9%, Resource Management 9.5%

Humanica is a city-builder game about an ancient settlement, featuring vast technological development. Experience the journey from sticks and stones to iron tools and windmills!

Why similar: City Builder 26%, Historical 14.4%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Building 11.1%

Polismos is a city builder set in ancient Greece. To ensure your city's prosperity you will need to care for your people, trade valuable resources, enact wise policies, and maybe even dominate other cities.

Why similar: Historical 27.5%, Base Building 19.1%, City Builder 17.3%, Economy 7.7%, Resource Management 7.1%

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.

Why similar: City Builder 23.6%, Historical 13.6%, Building 10.2%, Base Building 10%, Resource Management 9.4%

Build a network of cities that produce and trade resources, upgrade your castle, and protect the cities from cheeky bandits. Tinker with the economy at your own pace, and watch the charming wooden world grow into a lively and thriving kingdom.

Why similar: City Builder 26.3%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 14.4%, Building 12.4%, Base Building 12%

Settlements Rising is a medieval city building and colony management game. It offers a lively colony experience with simulated villagers, dozens of professions and resources, natural disasters, and raids, while providing full control over the colony through trade, production chains and datas.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Resource Management 13.8%, Building 12.9%, Base Building 11.2%, Sandbox 9.3%

Lead a Roman expeditionary force into the heart of Ancient Britain! Recruit, promote, and upgrade your legionaries while constructing a series of fortified marching camps. Use Roman tactics and strategies to conquer the entire island and become Warlord!

Why similar: Rome 49.5% ★, Historical 16.1%, Base Building 13.8%, Sandbox 7.3%, Resource Management 5.4%

Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.

Why similar: Moddable 21.8%, City Builder 15.8%, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 9.2%, Economy 9.1%

Rule Tenochtitlán in this survival city-builder where gods decide your fate. Confront the Moon Goddess and her generals. Delve into the intricate story, survive the nights in the Sandbox mode, or build freely in the Creative mode. The last sun is yours to save, or… lose!

Why similar: City Builder 20.6%, Historical 13.3%, Economy 11.7%, Building 11.4%, Resource Management 11.3%

Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Resource Management 11.2%, Economy 10.8%, Building 10.6%, Base Building 10.4%

Harness your Demigod powers to lead a group from rags to riches in this 3D Fantasy Kingdom Management Sim with RPG elements. Command from the sky or take control in 3rd Person to BUILD, BATTLE, and RULE. Navigate a world of interesting Nobles, earn their respect, and decide their Fates.

Why similar: Moddable 26.2%, City Builder 24%, Base Building 13.3%, Sandbox 12.5%, Building 11.5%

Build, manage and grow a thriving colony in Kubifaktorium. The game features different biomes to explore, plenty of resources to exploit, complex machinery to build and interesting production chains to master.

Why similar: City Builder 23.2%, Moddable 19.6%, Building 13%, Economy 12.5%, Base Building 10.9%

Command swarms of warriors at an unprecedented scale of warfare in this blend of RTS and base-building. Lead ant colonies against the many fearsome threats of the insect world, while building intricate nests, developing pheromone-based tactics, and evolving to meet growing dangers.

Why similar: Moddable 21.7%, City Builder 15.7%, Historical 10.8%, Base Building 9.3%, Economy 9.1%

Give rise to wonders of the Aztec Civilization as you build your own magnificent metropolis in this ancient city builder. From humble beginnings build, trade, manage and conquer to become Tlatoani (Emperor).

Why similar: City Builder 21.1%, Historical 14.6%, Military 12.2%, Economy 10.5%, Sandbox 10.3%

Build a legendary gladiator school in ancient Rome. Recruit and develop unique fighters, manage the business behind the bloodshed and watch your decisions tested in brutal real-time arena combat.

Why similar: Rome 39.9% ★, Auto Battler 36.2%, Historical 10.2%, Simulation 7.1%, Strategy 5.5%

A mix of deep gameplay and rich historical flavor, Aggressors: Ancient Rome lets you relive history as the ruler of one of the mighty civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. Choose one of twenty available factions and conquer the world.

Why similar: Rome 43.1% ★, Historical 16.1%, Military 14.5%, Moddable 14.2%, Strategy 6.3%

Start with a campfire. Build a kingdom. Hearth and Hamlet is a medieval citybuilder clicker that blends resource management, in-depth upgrade trees and relaxing idle gameplay. Build your empire by researching new technologies, passing new laws, trading with far-off lands, and more.

Why similar: City Builder 30.8%, Base Building 17.5%, Building 12.5%, Resource Management 12.2%, Economy 11%

Build, automate, and optimize a giant factory on 3D terrain using conveyor belts, trains, chutes, pipes, and airships. Sell your goods to nearby villages to expand their borders, increase happiness, and unlock even better technology!

Why similar: City Builder 18%, Moddable 15.3%, Base Building 12.3%, Resource Management 11.4%, Sandbox 10.5%

Folklands is a relaxing settlement builder with a retro look and feel set in a fantasy Nordic-inspired world. Harvest, produce and trade resources from multiple production chains as you grow your settlement. Keep your folks happy and safe and tend to their needs in a living and changing world.

Why similar: City Builder 22%, Moddable 19.7%, Economy 12.7%, Building 12.5%, Base Building 10.8%

Silicon City is a new take on the classic city builder genre, where each citizen voice their opinion. Will you be an urban designer, a rural evangelist or a reckless capitalist? Build your way to the most productive city until elected as the best mayor or plan the city of your dreams in sandbox.

Why similar: Moddable 24.2%, City Builder 18.5%, Level Editor 15.7%, Building 10.7%, Economy 10.7%