- #1 Empire City Simulator
97% matchMixed58% of 101 reviews2024
Dev: Red Brix Wall
Windows
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: Casual 100%
- #2 Roads of Rome 3
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 55 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Be brave and the good luck won't leave you, clear up your way and build roads, help the Romans get their prosperous and peaceful life back. Restore broken roads and settlements, save the Roman Empire from barbarian invasion!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #3 Romopolis
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 147 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic ancient Roman city with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #4 Caesar™ 3
95% matchVery Positive93% of 2,260 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 12.3 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
- #5 Citadelum
94% matchVery Positive84% of 1,089 reviews2024
Dev: Abylight BarcelonaPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 63%
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.
- #6 Pompeii: The Legacy
93% matchVery Positive81% of 294 reviews2026
Dev: Siscia Games
Windows
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.
- #7 7 Wonders II
94% matchVery Positive80% of 213 reviews2008
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Journey back in time with the 7 Wonders series to when magnificent structures were being built in far away lands. Enjoy challenging match-3 gameplay in a newly enhanced interactive environment where you not only learn about marvelous new wonders such as Stonehenge and Taj Mahal, but also watch them come to life piece by piece before your...
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #8 7 Wonders: Treasures of Seven
92% matchMostly Positive75% of 154 reviews2008
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 51%
It's time to build nine of the most intriguing structures throughout history! Match runes to break blocks and uncover the lock and keystone for each round. Rotate the cube face to move your keystone along the pathways you've created to reach each level's lock and conquer all six sides!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #9 Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant
91% matchVery Positive80% of 240 reviews2019
Dev: Citizen of Life Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
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: Casual 100%
- #10 Roads of Rome
91% matchVery Positive86% of 111 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Advance into the unknown territories full of secrets and dangers. Expand the famous road system to the far corners of mighty Roman Empire in this blend of casual strategy, sim and time management genres!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #11 Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
88% matchVery Positive84% of 774 reviews2025
Dev: Coreffect InteractivePub: Forklift Interactive
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 73%
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!
- #12 Grand Ages: Rome
89% matchMostly Positive75% of 820 reviews2009
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 53%
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.
- #13 The Legions of Rome
90% matchMostly Negative33% of 54 reviews2016
Dev: The Tambourine
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Many years ago, when the Earth was ruled by chaos and anarchy, when a tribe crushed another tribe for wealth and to please the gods. In the cradle of the Apennine Peninsula a kingdom has been born, which will become the greatest empire and conquer all of the ancient world.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #14 Pax Augusta
87% matchMixed70% of 659 reviews2025
Dev: Roger GassmannPub: Senatis
Windows
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!
- #15 Alcatraz Builder
89% matchMixed52% of 85 reviews2014
Dev: Little World StudioPub: M.INDIE
Windows · Mac
Median: 24 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Take part in building the monument that made Alcatraz Island a household name!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #16 Jewel Match Origins - Palais Imperial Collector's Edition
86% matchVery Positive85% of 67 reviews2021
Dev: Suricate SoftwarePub: Grey Alien Games
Windows
Play a Match-3 game like you've never seen before! Journey back to the Baroque Era in this imperial Match-3 adventure! Traverse 180 vast levels and collect resources to construct a breathtaking palace.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #17 Imperium Romanum Gold Edition
86% matchVery Positive85% of 484 reviews2008
Dev: Haemimont GamesPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 41%
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.
- #18 Gladiator Command
82% matchVery Positive96% of 254 reviews2026
Dev: Marius Spikas
Windows
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.
- #19 Gladiators: Survival in Rome
83% matchMixed65% of 458 reviews2025
Dev: Colossi Games
Windows
Gladiators: Survival in Rome is an Action RPG with casual survival game mechanics and active city building. You'll experience a new type of survival game with quests & dungeons, continuous progression, seasonal events and lots of spear poking.
- #20 7 Wonders of the Ancient World
85% matchMostly Positive75% of 232 reviews2014
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Embark on a journey no one has taken before! Your quest begins at the foot of The Great Pyramid of Giza and continues through the Egyptian sands to the mysterious Hanging Gardens of Babylon. Travel through the enchanting Mediterranean islands to the glory of ancient Greece as your voyage continues.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #21 7 Wonders: Magical Mystery Tour
84% matchVery Positive91% of 136 reviews2014
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 56%
In an all-new 7 Wonders, you’ll take a fantastic journey to some of the most enchanting sites ever dreamed of. With a team of master builders, you’ll match colorful runes to collect the building blocks needed for Camelot, El Dorado, Atlantis, Shangri-La, and many others.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #22 Yield! Fall of Rome
81% matchMostly Positive72% of 268 reviews2025
Dev: BillionworldsPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac
Forge your Kingdom amidst the Ruins of Rome in this turn-based 4X strategy game! As the world crumbles, rebuild civilization and shape your people’s destiny. Unleash your strategic prowess, conquer provinces, and crush all who stand in your way.
- #23 Luxor
84% matchMixed69% of 142 reviews2008
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 42 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Addictive and exciting, Luxor is an action-puzzler that takes you on a thrilling adventure across Ancient Egypt. Isis has enlisted you to battle Set and his evil minions. Use your scarab to shoot and destroy the approaching spheres before they reach the pyramids. Use Isis magic by catching talismans, gems, and Ankh coins.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #24 Nova Roma
78% matchVery Positive93% of 2,363 reviews2026
Dev: Lion ShieldPub: Hooded Horse
Windows · Mac
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%
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.
- #25 Summa Expeditionis
79% matchMostly Positive72% of 338 reviews2026
Dev: Lobico GamesPub: Megalevel
Windows
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.
- #26 Empire Architect
82% matchMixed65% of 171 reviews2017
Dev: Batholith Entertainment
Windows
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: Casual 100%
- #27 Anno 117: Pax Romana
77% matchMixed69% of 12,872 reviews2025
Dev: Ubisoft MainzPub: Ubisoft
Windows
Median: 14.7 hrsMean: 29.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
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.
- #28 Caesar™ IV
81% matchMostly Positive70% of 875 reviews2016
Dev: Tilted Mill Entertainment, Inc.Pub: Activision
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 44%
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.
- #29 Heroes of Hellas 3: Athens
80% matchVery Positive92% of 235 reviews2015
Dev: Alawar Casual
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Rebuild Athens from the ashes of its destruction and secure the help of the Heroes of Olympus as you battle an evil god!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #30 Age of Gladiators II: Rome
79% matchMixed68% of 280 reviews2018
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Age of Gladiators II: Rome 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. Build your story. Build your empire.
- #31 Monuments Renovator
76% matchMixed65% of 344 reviews2024
Dev: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 62%
Monuments Renovator is a game in which you play the role of a professional monument renovator. You choose from among the world's greatest monuments, restore them to their former glory and learn about history and architecture.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #32 Empire of Lust 🏛
74% matchMixed68% of 262 reviews2025
Dev: Carnality INCPub: Taboo Tales 💘
Windows · Mac · Linux
Rise through Roman high society using charm, cunning, and carnal delight. Build a harem, throw decadent feasts, seduce the elite — and turn lust into power. In a world of pleasure and betrayal, will you conquer... or be conquered?
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #33 CivCity: Rome
77% matchMostly Positive71% of 951 reviews2007
Dev: FireFly StudiosPub: 2K
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 52%
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!
- #34 Mayor Match: City Builder & Match-3
73% matchVery Positive92% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: G5 Entertainment AB
Windows
Become the Mayor in a unique game that blends thrilling match-3 puzzles with strategic city building!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #35 Luxor Amun Rising
78% matchMostly Positive72% of 50 reviews2008
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Glory and adventure await as you return to save ancient Egypt from certain doom in Luxor: Amun Rising. The sequel to the runaway hit game, you must defeat the rebellious princes of Megiddo before they overthrow the pharaoh and plunge the two lands into chaos!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #36 Celestial Empire: Prologue
72% matchVery Positive86% of 426 reviews2025
Dev: President Studio
Windows
Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.
- #37 Roads of Rome 2
76% matchVery Positive95% of 65 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Take up new tricky tasks and overcome dangerous challenges in Roads of Rome 2, an addictive game that successfully combines strategy and time management features!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #38 Praetorians
75% matchVery Positive81% of 707 reviews2014
Dev: Pyro StudiosPub: Kalypso Media Digital
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 19.3 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Praetorians is set amidst the political machinations of an emerging Roman Empire. You will be transported back to the dusty battlefields of Egypt, the combat theaters of Gaul and finally to the heart of the Empire itself, Italy in the crusade to become Emperor.
- #39 Romans: Age of Caesar
74% matchMixed46% of 465 reviews2022
Dev: Firefly Studios
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 33.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Build Rome Together! A co-operative grand strategy MMO from a team of veteran city builders, Romans: Age of Caesar is the latest historical strategy game from Firefly Studios.
- #40 All My Gods
73% matchVery Positive88% of 115 reviews2015
Dev: Qumaron
Windows
Become a Roman god! Don't be shy! Epic game that topped the charts on Big Fish Games and GameHouse!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #41 Aggressors: Ancient Rome
72% matchVery Positive82% of 282 reviews2018
Dev: Kubat SoftwarePub: Kube Games
Windows
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.
- #42 Silver Tale
73% matchMixed68% of 90 reviews2017
Dev: PlaycademyPub: Shaman Game Studios
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Take a fantastical journey across the kingdom. Solve quests, collect rare artifacts, build upgrades, and even craft new items in this innovative new match-3 experience!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #43 The Pyraplex
70% matchVery Positive97% of 87 reviews2023
Dev: Kairosoft Co.,Ltd
Windows
A pyramid-building adventure of historic proportions!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #44 Tlatoani: Aztec Cities
67% matchVery Positive82% of 192 reviews2026
Dev: Perspective GamesPub: Paradox Arc
Windows
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).
- #45 Townsmen - A Kingdom Rebuilt
71% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,415 reviews2019
Dev: HandyGamesPub: THQ Nordic Mobile
Windows
Median: 6.4 hrsMean: 14.6 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Townsmen – A Kingdom Rebuilt hands the crown to you: Guide your people from their first steps in a small village to a massive medieval metropolis with thousands of inhabitants.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #46 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover
71% matchVery Positive86% of 314 reviews2012
Dev: MumboJumboPub: Accelerate Games
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 59%
The long-standing 7 Wonders series keeps getting better and better! The fifth installment, 7 Wonders: Ancient Alien Makeover, adds an entirely new game component, new Wonders and a new and exciting material – Alien Energy!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #47 City idle
69% matchMostly Positive71% of 231 reviews2023
Dev: Grest Games OÜ
Windows
Experience a city-building game, where the citizens are fully simulated and every decision you make impacts their lives. From the Stone Age to the Iron Age and beyond, watch your civilization evolve and progress under your guidance.
- #48 Triple Town
69% matchVery Positive92% of 825 reviews2012
Dev: Spry Fox
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 16.5 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Triple Town is an award-winning original puzzle game in which you try to grow the greatest possible city. The larger the city you build, the more points you score. You build your city by matching three or more game-pieces: combine three grasses to make a bush, three bushes to make a tree...
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #49 Tentlan
71% matchMixed48% of 129 reviews2018
Dev: Lionmoon UG
Windows
Step into the shoes of a maya emperor in this new take on the classic idle empire building genre! Start your settlement in the heart of the rainforest and develop ancient rituals and research, recruit powerful eagle and jaguar warriors, raid barbarian settlements, deal with friendly and hostile tribes and more!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #50 Gems of the Aztecs
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 209 reviews2016
Dev: WellorePub: 8Floor
Windows
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 98%
A dangerous journey into the ruins of an ancient city await our hero. Help him find the treasure in Gems of the Aztecs!
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #51 Hearth and Hamlet
63% matchMostly Positive79% of 2,235 reviews2026
Dev: Phorust StudiosPub: Runic Forge
Windows · Linux
Median: 8.8 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%
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: Casual 100%
- #52 PyramidValley: Reborn
65% matchVery Positive88% of 91 reviews2025
Dev: AuthenTiiq
Windows · Mac · Linux
Immerse yourself in ancient Egypt with PyramidValley, a management game where you develop your pharaonic city by constructing iconic monuments and gathering various resources to ensure prosperity.
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #53 Empire of the Gods
70% matchMostly Positive74% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: Lonely Troops
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%
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: Casual 100%
- #54 Castle Empire
68% matchMixed51% of 75 reviews2023
Dev: HaoPlay Limited
Windows
Empire falls eventually. Build your own empire and conquer the world.
- #55 Age of Gladiators
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 769 reviews2016
Dev: Creative Storm Entertainment
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 5.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
"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: Casual 100%
- #56 Pharaoh + Cleopatra
66% matchVery Positive92% of 2,587 reviews2016
Dev: Impressions GamesPub: Activision
Windows
Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 18.7 hrs≥1hr: 55%
Immerse yourself in Ancient Egypt from the age of the great pyramids to the final years of the New Kingdom.
- #57 CaesarIA
69% matchMixed58% of 1,462 reviews2015
Dev: rdt.32
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 10.7 hrs≥1hr: 33%
CaesarIA is a remake of an old-school economic strategy game, Caesar III which is a masterpiece among the games of this genre in our opinion. There are different economic strategy games and they can be broken down to subtypes but from our viewpoint Caesar encompasses planning, constructing, diplomacy and military campaigns.
- #58 Teeny Tiny Town
65% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2024
Dev: Short Circuit Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Proving that all good things come in threes! Welcome to Teeny Tiny Town, where you connect three identical tiles to evolve your city, merge by merge. Watch your metropolis grow from scratch, from 'aww' to 'awesome!'
Why similar: Casual 100%
- #59 Pharaoh™: A New Era
64% matchMostly Positive75% of 5,400 reviews2023
Dev: Triskell InteractivePub: Dotemu
Windows
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 13.2 hrs≥1hr: 85%
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.
