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Games like Ancient Cities

2023PC, Steam Deck playable64 % positive29.99 €

You guide a Neolithic people through millennia and grow them into an ancient civilization. It stands out for its strong focus on historical realism, survival and a deeply simulated world.

  • Historical setting
  • Building and crafting
  • Economy and management
  • Sandbox with your own goals
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In short: Games like Ancient Cities

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Ancient Cities special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Up to three areas count more, the rest steps back.

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Life is Feudal: Forest Village

95 %Match

2017PC65 % positive22.99 €

Brings what grabs you about Ancient Cities: building and crafting, a historical setting as well as economy and management.

A medieval city builder with survival elements: you lead new settlers through harsh conditions, keep them fed with varied crops, and expand your village step by step. You can also possess villagers to micromanage them directly.

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Manor Lords

Historical setting

A medieval city-builder and strategy game where you grow a 14th-century Franconian village through detailed production chains. It adds tactical real-time battles and a strong focus on historical authenticity.

Banished

Resources and survival

A calm yet unforgiving city builder where you guide a band of exiles through harsh winters. You have to balance food, firewood and population growth carefully, or the whole settlement collapses.

Ostriv

Historical setting

A city-builder set in 18th-century Ukraine where you govern a town, laying out organic settlements without grid or angle limits on 3D terrain while managing the economy and your villagers.

Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic

Sandbox with your own goals

An extremely detailed Soviet-themed city-building simulation where you plan and run industry, agriculture, transport and population of a republic from scratch. Its intricate economic and logistics chains make it a demanding challenge for planning enthusiasts.

Farthest Frontier

Building and crafting

A detailed city-builder with survival pressure where you found a settlement in the wilderness, manage resources and keep your villagers alive through seasons, disease and raiders.

Pharaoh

Building and crafting

A classic ancient Egypt city builder where you lay out housing, farm around the Nile floods, manage trade and raise monuments like pyramids. Supply logistics, pleasing the gods and occasional invasions make for a calm yet demanding flow.

Sid Meier's Colonization

Deep systems to master

A turn-based 4X strategy game set in the colonial era: you lead a European power in the New World, founding settlements, trading goods, managing resources, and ultimately fighting for independence from the Crown.

Sapiens

Sandbox with your own goals

You guide a small tribe from a first-person view through millennia of progress, building settlements and industries in a living simulated world where your people work on their own.

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