Games Like Summa Expeditionis

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 46.1% ★, Base Building 19.9%, Historical 15.7%, Sandbox 7.6%, Strategy 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the Roman setting and focuses heavily on soldier management and base-building in a hostile environment.

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.

Why similar: Rome 33.6% ★, City Builder 15.1%, Base Building 11.4%, Building 11%, Historical 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: A Roman-themed city builder that balances resource management with tactical military defense.

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 39.9% ★, City Builder 23.8%, Historical 14.2%, Strategy 9.9%, Simulation 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic strategy title that captures the essence of Roman city-building and military expansion.

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

Why similar: City Builder 20.5%, Colony Sim 17.4% ★, Historical 13%, Management 9.3%, Base Building 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes survival, resource management, and the challenges of early civilization.

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: Colony Sim 22% ★, Base Building 12.8%, City Builder 12.8%, Historical 10%, Management 9.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers complex base-building and colony management mechanics within a historical setting.

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.

Why similar: Rome 37.4% ★, Historical 12.7%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.8%, Building 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the survival and crafting aspects of the Roman era with a strong emphasis on individual character progression.

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: Colony Sim 21.3% ★, City Builder 13.1%, Base Building 12.8%, Historical 10.5%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines deep city-building with tactical combat and historical management, mirroring the strategic depth of the seed game.

A sci-fi colony sim driven by an intelligent AI storyteller. Generates stories by simulating psychology, ecology, gunplay, melee combat, climate, biomes, diplomacy, interpersonal relationships, art, medicine, trade, and more.

Why similar: Colony Sim 31.4% ★, Base Building 17.8%, Management 9.5%, City Builder 9.5%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive colony-sim experience that provides the deep management and sandbox building mechanics found in the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 14.3%, Base Building 13.4%, Building 9.3%, Management 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that provides strong management and sandbox elements with a focus on character-driven stories.

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: Colony Sim 19.1% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 10.6%, Historical 9.5%, Farming Sim 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides a deep historical city-building experience with complex resource chains and realistic management.

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: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 18.1%, Building 12%, Management 10.2%, Base Building 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that emphasizes deep building and survival mechanics in a challenging environment.

Create your own prehistoric civilization and lead your tribe in a world you shape. Start with nothing, build towns and industry, and advance through thousands of years of technological breakthroughs in this intimate yet expansive colony sim.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.5% ★, City Builder 14.4%, Base Building 12.9%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim with a focus on early civilization building and resource gathering.

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 31%, Colony Sim 14.6% ★, Management 10.3%, Building 10%, Sandbox 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Features organic city-building with a focus on historical management and population needs.

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 43.2% ★, City Builder 18%, Historical 13.8%, Simulation 9.1%, Management 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A Roman-themed simulation and strategy game that focuses on the administrative and building aspects of the empire.

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 22.8% ★, Colony Sim 17% ★, City Builder 10.4%, Base Building 9.3%, Crafting 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: Directly targets the Roman survival and city-building niche with a focus on expansion.

In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.

Why similar: Colony Sim 39.8% ★, City Builder 25.9%, Survival 7.4%, Sandbox 6.3%, Strategy 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A foundational colony survival game that emphasizes the struggle to maintain a settlement through resource management.

Land of the Vikings is a survival colony sim game. Build and lead your village, and expand it into a thriving city. A wise Jarl must manage resources, survive harsh conditions, and guide their fellow Vikings to work together through social conflict. Skál!

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 10.3%, Building 9.1%, Management 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim with historical themes and survival mechanics that mirror the expansionist feel of the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 25.3% ★, City Builder 20.8%, Building 13%, Management 12.5%, Historical 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A polished historical city-builder that shares the management-heavy gameplay loop of the seed game.

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: Colony Sim 20.8% ★, City Builder 14.5%, Base Building 12.7%, Historical 10.4%, Building 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Provides an incredibly deep and complex management simulation for players who enjoy the logistical side of building.

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: Colony Sim 24.9% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 12.2%, Building 10.7%, Crafting 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features base-building and colony management in a historical setting with a focus on resource efficiency.

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 32.4% ★, Colony Sim 23.8% ★, City Builder 14.8%, Historical 9.9%, Base Building 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: A Roman-themed colony simulation that focuses on the growth and management of a settlement.

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 32.8% ★, Colony Sim 27% ★, City Builder 17.7%, Strategy 9.8%, Simulation 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic strategy and simulation title that captures the spirit of managing a Roman province.

Colony Survival is a unique first-person strategy game developed by a two-man team. Build your own colony in a voxel world. Command guards, farmers, miners and other colonists. Defend your colony against the horde of monsters that attacks every night!

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.5% ★, Base Building 16.1%, Building 11%, City Builder 8.5%, Survival 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a unique first-person perspective on base-building and colony management that requires strategic planning.

Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.

Why similar: Colony Sim 29.6% ★, Farming Sim 23.2%, Crafting 14.5%, Building 13.9%, Sandbox 12%

Why You'll Like It: A colony-sim that focuses on survival and historical management, emphasizing the daily needs of a growing population.

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: Colony Sim 20.5% ★, City Builder 13.5%, Base Building 13.1%, Historical 10.6%, Building 9.9%

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 22%, Base Building 14%, Historical 14%, Simulation 10.7%, Management 10%

Why You'll Like It: A historical city-builder that emphasizes management and strategy in an ancient setting.

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: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, City Builder 13.3%, Base Building 12.7%, Historical 9.6%, Building 9.6%

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: Colony Sim 21.8% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.8%, Historical 10.2%, Building 9.7%

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: Colony Sim 24% ★, City Builder 14.6%, Base Building 14.3%, Building 11.1%, Management 10.6%

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: Colony Sim 37.1% ★, Rome 33.6% ★, City Builder 8.3%, Simulation 7.7%, Building 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A casual city-building simulation that provides a lighter take on the Roman management genre.

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: Colony Sim 19.5% ★, City Builder 15%, Base Building 11.9%, Management 10.4%, Historical 9.3%

Bastide is a 13th-century city-building strategy game where you lead a village of peasants toward survival and prosperity. You must contend with bandits, starvation, disease, and brutal winters as you work to develop your settlement into a fortified town.

Why similar: City Builder 46.3%, Strategy 23.3%, Simulation 22.8%, Action 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on historical colony management and the survival challenges of a growing settlement.

Explore a handcrafted survival game with an emphasis on crafting and base building. Export manufactured goods to earn funding, manage colonists, defend against hostile aliens, and work towards terraforming Ceres from a frozen ball of ice to a tropical paradise.

Why similar: Colony Sim 23% ★, Farming Sim 13.1%, Base Building 12.4%, Crafting 11.2%, Building 11%

In Memoriapolis, you're not just building a city, you're shaping a living, evolving civilization. Travel through five major eras, from Antiquity to the Industrial Revolution. Leave your mark on history by navigating the power struggles between rival factions.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, City Builder 18.2%, Base Building 12.2%, Building 10.9%, Management 10.2%

Establish and expand your own settlements, liberate the land and assist its villagers, and recruit others to your cause while learning more about a life you had to leave behind. Command your forces, prove your valor through combat, and cement yourself as the hero of your people.

Why similar: City Builder 26.2%, Crafting 19.7%, Building 16.2%, Survival 15.7%, Simulation 5.8%

Command a settlement of ancient humans, guide them through the ages in their struggle for survival. Hunt, gather, craft tools, fight, research new techs and face the challenges the environment will throw at you.

Why similar: Colony Sim 38.1% ★, City Builder 28.7%, Survival 8.7%, Historical 7.8%, Sandbox 5.5%

LiF:Forest Village is a city builder with survival aspects in a realistic harsh medieval world. Shape, build and expand your settlement, grow various food to prevent your villagers from avitaminosis and starvation. Possess them for additional micromanagement or simply to wander around.

Why similar: Colony Sim 40.7% ★, City Builder 26.3%, Building 8.6%, Survival 6%, Strategy 5%

Discover a unique blend of Colony Sim and Tactical RPG. Recruit and train your heroes, build your outpost, explore dungeons and engage in turn-based strategic battles to protect and expand your domain. Shape your stories by managing moods, relationships, ambitions and more!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.2% ★, Base Building 16.5%, Building 12.3%, City Builder 9.9%, Management 9.7%

Take command of a remote military air base during World War II. Build your own airfield, manage iconic aircraft and oversee your crew’s well-being. Prepare them against air raids and send your pilots on dangerous missions. Survive and help your nation win the war!

Why similar: Colony Sim 23.6% ★, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 13.4%, Building 10.3%, Management 9.8%

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 30.9% ★, City Builder 15.9%, Historical 11.6%, Building 9.4%, Crafting 8.7%

A colony building game with an emphasis on unexpected events, online co-op, and managing a unique community. Build your colony, feed your colonists, research technologies, craft advanced weapons, explore the world, fight enemies and defend your property.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.7% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.2%, Building 9.8%, Crafting 9.4%

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: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 17.8%, Base Building 11%, Building 9.9%, Management 9.1%

Never Second in Rome is a turn-based historical game with RPG and management elements. You are a Roman centurion in the army of Julius Caesar. You will control both your character and the unit under his command.

Why similar: Rome 58.6% ★, Historical 19.8%, Management 13.7%, Simulation 7.2%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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: Colony Sim 29.1% ★, City Builder 18.4%, Base Building 9.6%, Survival 8.1%, Building 8%

Lead a team of cloned settlers and build a home on a new planet. Start from the Stone Age, construct sturdy shelters, hunt for food, and fight off dangers. Make your team stronger and better equipped to survive.

Why similar: Colony Sim 25.5% ★, City Builder 15.5%, Base Building 14.4%, Historical 14.3%, Survival 10.5%

Determine the destiny of Rome as you conquer foreign lands and navigate political intrigue in this turn-based RPG. Directly fight with your party of Praetorians, guide your legion to victory, and choose your own path in a story where every decision matters. How will you shape the future of Rome?

Why similar: Rome 69.7% ★, Historical 17.6%, Strategy 10.3%, 3D 2%, Singleplayer 0.5%

A fantasy village builder focusing on creative building, colonist psychology and base defense. Handle resources, farming, production, tools, diplomacy, families, trading, defense, and research, as well as the wishes, expectations, thoughts, and equipment of every villager.

Why similar: Colony Sim 34% ★, Base Building 14.1%, City Builder 13.6%, Building 9.1%, Sandbox 6.3%

Build and manage mankind’s first mission across the universe! Create a sprawling facility underground, recruit a diverse group of specialists from around the globe and explore mysterious new worlds through the Exogate.

Why similar: Colony Sim 21.9% ★, Base Building 14.9%, City Builder 14.6%, Management 11.4%, Building 11.2%

Automate a lunar base as you become the savior of humanity exploring the future on the moon. Mine, craft, research, and trade resources with Earth in this gripping narrative basebuilder.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.2% ★, Base Building 16.5%, City Builder 12.9%, Building 9.8%, Management 9.1%

Embark on a space voyage with your ragtag crew of civilians in search of a new home. Build spaceships tile by tile, create optimal gas conditions, manage the needs and moods of their crew, encounter other space-faring groups, and explore the universe in this spaceship colony simulation.

Why similar: Colony Sim 24.3% ★, Base Building 14%, City Builder 12.8%, Building 10.3%, Management 10.3%

Build the best ludus in the world! and survive in ancient Rome.

Why similar: Rome 50.7% ★, Management 12.4%, Historical 10.9%, Simulation 10.6%, Strategy 8.1%

A Legionary's Life lets you play as a Roman soldier during the years of the Second Punic War and beyond. Rise up through the ranks and win prestigious awards or just focus on making it home in one piece; it's up to you.

Why similar: Rome 69.3% ★, Historical 23.9%, Simulation 5.9%, Singleplayer 0.9%

Build your sky city while exploring a vast landscape in this Open World RPG City Builder. Combining the methodical construction and management of a city builder; the unique lift, balance, and propulsion needed for a flying city; and the compelling characters, dangers, and adventures of an RPG!

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.6% ★, City Builder 16.1%, Base Building 14.1%, Building 12.7%, Sandbox 10.2%

A colony sim set in a post-apocalyptic dystopia. Build and defend your base. Manage your survivors. Engage raiders, aliens, Remnant soldiers and other factions in real-time-with-pause combat. Or use stealth to outwit them. Explore the massive world. Survive at all costs

Why similar: Colony Sim 22.2% ★, Base Building 12.9%, City Builder 12.1%, Building 9.5%, Management 9.3%

A city builder with simulated citizens, set in a procedurally-generated world map. Grow your kingdom through the eras from a tiny medieval hamlet into a prosperous global empire! Cooperate or compete in real-time with your friends in multiplayer mode.

Why similar: Colony Sim 27.7% ★, City Builder 26.2%, Base Building 16%, Management 11.3%, Building 7.2%

Survive and thrive in a post-apocalyptic future — resources are scarce, but opportunity calls! Build the ultimate disaster proof colony, protect your colonists, and restore civilization to a devastated world.

Why similar: Colony Sim 26.6% ★, City Builder 21.8%, Base Building 13.1%, Survival 9%, Strategy 7.6%

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: Colony Sim 21.1% ★, City Builder 13.2%, Base Building 12.9%, Historical 10.3%, Building 9.9%

Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!

Why similar: City Builder 21%, Base Building 20.8%, Management 16.1%, Building 15.4%, Sandbox 13%

Guide a group of space settlers trying to establish a base on a remote planet. Grow food, collect energy, mine resources, survive disasters and build a self-sufficient colony in a harsh and unforgiving environment.

Why similar: Colony Sim 32.6% ★, City Builder 19%, Base Building 17.2%, Survival 7.1%, Building 5.8%