Games Like Marble Age

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 12.5%, Historical 9.1%, 4X 8.1% ★, Difficult 7.9%, City Builder 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive version of the seed game, featuring improved graphics, UI, and balanced gameplay mechanics.

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 14%, Historical 10.5%, 4X 10% ★, Survival 9%, Difficult 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Developed by the same team, this game shares the exact turn-based historical simulation and survival-focused progression style.

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 12.7%, Historical 9.8%, 4X 8.8% ★, Difficult 7.9%, Survival 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Another title from the same developers that maintains the core turn-based strategy and ancient civilization management loop.

Build an empire in a single sitting. All the strategy of a classic 4X in a faster format, which also shines in multiplayer.

Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Historical 14.8%, City Builder 13.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.9%, Economy 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, turn-based grand strategy game that perfectly captures the scale and historical flavor of the Bronze Age.

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 12%, 4X 9.7% ★, Historical 8.7%, City Builder 7.9%, Difficult 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on the challenges of early civilization survival and expansion.

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: 4X 21.9% ★, Diplomacy 15.6% ★, Historical 15.1%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.2%, Economy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses specifically on the Greek historical setting with deep turn-based strategy and 4X mechanics.

Old World is a revolutionary new historical strategy game where you lead your dynasty over generations of rule against rival kings and queens. Wage massive wars, manage your court, and build a dynasty — or watch your empire crumble to dust. What legacy will you leave behind?

Why similar: 4X 18% ★, Turn-Based 16.5%, Diplomacy 15.3% ★, Historical 13.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: A sophisticated turn-based 4X game that emphasizes character-driven historical progression and civilization building.

Village elder, help us! The Apocalypse is approaching, and we need your guidance to survive. Assign your workers and build a thriving village against the pending doom. DotAGE is the merciless survival roguelite turn-based city builder. Will you fulfill the Prophecy?

Why similar: Turn-Based 23.7%, City Builder 15.8%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.7%, Building 10.7%, Survival 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based survival city-builder that requires careful resource management and strategic planning to survive environmental threats.

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 30.9%, Base Building 22.5%, City Builder 13.7%, Strategy 9.4%, Simulation 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A base-building simulation that focuses on the historical development of ancient city-states.

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 21.6%, Historical 15.6%, Building 13.2%, Economy 10%, Base Building 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A modern city-builder that allows players to design and manage a Greek city-state with a focus on historical accuracy.

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: 4X 18% ★, Historical 12.5%, Diplomacy 12.3% ★, Base Building 11.7%, City Builder 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A unique blend of clicker and 4X strategy that distills civilization building into a highly addictive, fast-paced format.

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: City Builder 35.3%, Historical 26.5%, Strategy 18.3%, Simulation 10.9%, Building 8%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that balances urban development with military management in the ancient world.

Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!

Why similar: City Builder 53.6%, Strategy 19.9%, Historical 15.1%, Simulation 4.7%, Economy 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic city-builder that captures the spirit of Greek mythology and urban planning with a charming aesthetic.

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 17.1%, City Builder 17.1%, Survival 12.4%, Economy 8.9%, Management 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: A survival-focused city-builder that forces players to manage the harsh realities of life in the ancient world.

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 23.4%, Building 15.4%, Historical 14.7%, Economy 13.8%, Management 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style city-builder that emphasizes historical accuracy and complex supply chain management.

From Village to Empire is an indie turn based strategy game with a historical setting. Build cities, research technologies, and train units to discover new lands and conquer the world!

Why similar: 4X 19.8% ★, Turn-Based 17.3%, Historical 12.8%, Strategy 11.6%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 4X strategy game that emphasizes the transition from a small settlement to a sprawling empire on a hex-grid.

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: 4X 19.6% ★, Turn-Based 16.7%, Diplomacy 14.9% ★, Historical 12.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based 4X game that allows players to guide their civilization through thousands of years of history.

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: Simulation 19.2%, City Builder 18.7%, Time Management 12%, Building 11.8%, Casual 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A casual city-building simulation that focuses on the development of Roman settlements.

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: 4X 29.2% ★, Historical 21.6%, Turn-Based 13.7%, Strategy 12.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep turn-based strategy game that focuses on the political and military complexities of the ancient Mediterranean.

Field of Glory: Empires is a grand strategy game in which you will have to move in an intricate and living tapestry of nations and tribes, each one with their distinctive culture.

Why similar: Turn-Based 23.9%, 4X 20.8% ★, Historical 17.1%, Strategy 11.5%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: A grand strategy game that offers a complex look at the rise and fall of ancient civilizations.

"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 25.8%, Historical 18.6%, Management 15.4%, Turn-Based Strategy 10.6%, Strategy 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A management-heavy simulation game that captures the brutal entertainment culture of the ancient world.

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 22.8%, Base Building 12%, Strategy 10.7%, Survival 9.7%, Simulation 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A medieval city-builder that focuses on the survival and growth of a small village into a prosperous town.

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: Historical 32.8%, Strategy 22%, Management 17.3%, Resource Management 15.7%, 2D 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist turn-based strategy game that offers a bite-sized take on the civilization-building genre.

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 21%, Survival 14.4%, Historical 10.1%, Base Building 9.7%, Building 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: A survival city-builder that incorporates social and political management alongside traditional resource gathering.

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 20.6%, Building 11.6%, Economy 9.6%, Historical 9.5%, Base Building 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation strategy game that tasks players with building and managing an ancient city from the ground up.

Welcome to the 1980s! This is a city which just started to develop, and you're in charge of this small urban village. How will the city's future be tied to this place? Manage your land, construct new buildings, explore the stories, and find out the ultimate fate of this urban village!

Why similar: City Builder 24.3%, Turn-Based Strategy 18.5%, Strategy 15.1%, Management 15%, Building 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based strategy game that focuses on management and urban growth with a distinct 2D aesthetic.

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 18.8%, Historical 16.9%, Building 12.9%, Economy 10.4%, Base Building 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that challenges players to manage the economy and infrastructure of ancient Egyptian cities.

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: Diplomacy 20.4% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Historical 14.7%, Base Building 13.5%, Building 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on the early stages of human development, agriculture, and societal growth.

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: 4X 11.7% ★, Diplomacy 11.5% ★, City Builder 11.4%, Historical 11.1%, Base Building 9.8%

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.

Why similar: Building 23.1%, Economy 19%, Strategy 17.3%, Simulation 15.9%, Management 11.9%

Why You'll Like It: A simulation-heavy game that focuses on the long-term growth and management of a colony.

Terraform, strategize, and construct a Martian colony in this retro-inspired turn-based city builder. Create a comfortable living for your citizens, research alien artifacts, and uncover the secrets of the Red Planet.

Why similar: City Builder 16.7%, Turn-Based Strategy 14%, Base Building 13.7%, Survival 11.2%, Resource Management 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A turn-based city-builder that requires strategic placement and resource management to survive in a harsh environment.

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 17.5%, 4X 15.8% ★, Base Building 10%, Building 9.4%, Economy 8.4%

Life is Hard is a godsim town simulator game developed by a two-man-team. Your main aim here is to manage your town. Expand your domain, prevent famine, make war, trade with others, attract new people. Make history!

Why similar: Strategy 37.5%, Simulation 27.5%, Economy 16.4%, Indie 13.2%, 2D 5.4%

Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.

Why similar: 4X 21.4% ★, Historical 14.8%, Diplomacy 12.7% ★, Turn-Based Strategy 12.1%, Survival 9.2%

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: 4X 13.7% ★, Diplomacy 13.6% ★, Historical 10.5%, City Builder 10.2%, Base Building 8.8%

Project Highrise is a skyscraper construction and management sim...

Why similar: Building 26.2%, Management 23%, Simulation 13.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Economy 8.6%

Discover and colonize the world, Allocate your labor force, Monopolize markets, Fight tactical battles, Survive the age of imperialism...

Why similar: 4X 18.8% ★, Historical 16%, Turn-Based Strategy 12.8%, Turn-Based 11.7%, Economy 11.3%

Form your own game studio set in the early 1980s in a small garage. Develop your own game ideas, create a team and develop megahit video games. Research new technologies, train your staff and upgrade your office space, going from a lowly garage to a huge building. Expand your business and dominate the world market for video games!

Why similar: Management 19.1%, Building 15.8%, Base Building 15.7%, Economy 15.5%, Resource Management 9.5%

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic neighborhood with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: City Builder 18.5%, Simulation 16.5%, Time Management 14.8%, Building 14%, Management 10.3%

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: City Builder 12.6%, Diplomacy 11.4% ★, Historical 11.2%, 4X 10.8% ★, Base Building 9.6%

Immerse yourself in the beautifully recreated golden age of Hellenic city-states. Builders of Greece: Prologue, being a shortened version of the full game, is a great way to try your hand as a ruler of an ancient Greek city-state, practice your management skills, and learn basic game mechanics.

Why similar: City Builder 20.2%, Historical 15.8%, Building 13.9%, Economy 10.6%, Base Building 8.9%

Lethis - Path of Progress is a city-builder in a victorian steampunk setting.

Why similar: City Builder 35.4%, Building 20.7%, Resource Management 12.3%, Strategy 11.2%, Simulation 9.8%

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 23.1%, Historical 15.5%, Building 14.6%, Base Building 13.8%, Management 10.4%

Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct beautiful city zones with plenty of modern blocks. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios.

Why similar: Simulation 20.7%, City Builder 20.2%, Building 14.3%, Time Management 10.3%, Strategy 8.8%

Become a real medieval feudal lord: start with a small village and build it up into an enormous impenetrable castle. You will have to repel enemy raids: hide behind thick walls, lure your enemies into strategically placed traps, and even lead your loyal peasants into battle.

Why similar: Base Building 15.5%, City Builder 15.2%, Building 13.9%, Resource Management 9.6%, Survival 8.9%

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: Diplomacy 17.2% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Historical 15.8%, Base Building 10.9%, Economy 9.6%

Dominate the classical Mediterranean in Imperator: Rome, a grand strategy game from Paradox Interactive. Navigate the dangerous waters of politics and diplomacy as you build up your provinces and conquer foreign lands. Now available with special content and the digital artbook.

Why similar: Historical 35.9%, Strategy 24.1%, Simulation 13.8%, Economy 11.1%, Management 10.2%

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: City Builder 12.2%, Historical 11.7%, Base Building 10.4%, 4X 10.1% ★, Diplomacy 10.1% ★

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 19.1%, Historical 15.5%, Base Building 10.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Simulation 10.2%

Turn based 4X strategy game, recreating the civilizations of ancient China. Develop your land, build great cities, raise huge armies and fight epic battles, with hundreds of soldiers fighting right on the game map. Advance your technologies, culture and religion to create one of mankind’s biggest empires.

Why similar: 4X 24.8% ★, Turn-Based 24.7%, Historical 18.6%, Strategy 10.5%, Simulation 7.3%

A city-building sim with a historical twist

Why similar: City Builder 27.1%, Building 13.5%, Historical 12.7%, Strategy 12.1%, Simulation 11.2%

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: City Builder 26.3%, Historical 25.7%, Simulation 14.6%, Strategy 13.9%, Management 9.5%

Gnomoria is a sandbox village management game where you help lead a small group of gnomes, who have set out on their own, to thrive into a bustling kingdom! Anything you see can be broken down and rebuilt elsewhere.

Why similar: City Builder 29.3%, Building 17%, Survival 15.1%, Strategy 10.8%, Simulation 9.2%

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: Diplomacy 12.5% ★, 4X 12.5% ★, City Builder 10.8%, Historical 10.6%, Base Building 9.3%

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 15%, Historical 12.8%, Base Building 11.9%, Building 11.7%, Survival 10.4%

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: City Builder 20.2%, Base Building 15.9%, Building 15.2%, Survival 14.5%, Management 11.2%

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: Historical 31.1%, Management 19.4%, Economy 18.6%, Strategy 13.1%, Simulation 10.2%

CivIdle is an idle/incremental game that allows you to lead your own civilization through thousands of years from ancient times to the modern era. Expand your territory, explore a vast tech tree, build various wonders, and trade with global players: empire must grow and numbers must go up!

Why similar: 4X 20.2% ★, Historical 16%, Base Building 15%, City Builder 12.2%, Management 8.6%

Lead empires that evolve or endure through the Ages. Build something you believe in with Sid Meier's Civilization® VII.

Why similar: 4X 20% ★, Diplomacy 19.6% ★, Historical 14.9%, City Builder 14.2%, Economy 9.8%