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Grow a pixel-art civilization through resource management, research, hero upgrades and battles against escalating crises.
Released 22 Jan 2026
Build a Pixel Civilization
Fight Crises with Armies
Equip Heroes for Bonuses
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.
Developed by Ondrej Homola · Published by Ondrej Homola









You guide a small civilization as it grows in population and strength. Build up its economy, expand across a strategic map, and use direct actions to speed production.
Research technologies to unlock buildings, military units and abilities. Balance growth and resources while preparing for crises such as disasters and wars, which you face with your population, economy and military. Collect heroes and equip them for bonuses that shape your civilization’s strengths.
Progress through historical eras and challenge campaigns, then ascend into higher difficulty tiers with new challenges and features. Runs also build toward longer-term progression through upgrades and increasingly powerful heroes.
Players who enjoy the game often point to its blend of clicker-style growth and civilization management, with planning, resource balancing and hero choices adding strategic depth. Some also like its progression and challenge scenarios. Reviews frequently criticize crisis encounters that can snowball into severe difficulty spikes, along with late-game grinding, repetitive resets and mechanics that are not clearly explained.
In Microcivilization you explore, expand, exploit and exterminate all together in a pixel-art strategy-clicker game blend. Start the growth of your population and economical strength while discovering government combinations, hundreds of unique heroes and experimenting with ability builds for combat and construction.
You have many ways to build an obscenely rich and powerful nation. If oppressing your people by furious button smashing is your thing, master the clicker features to your benefit. If faith in your micro-people's good-will and productivity is your style, make use of your workshops and their passive and active abilities. Advancing in technology tree will unlock upgrades, military units, bonuses and new abilities to help you grow and steel yourself for threats to come.
Face hundreds of disasters, wars, diseases, social unrests, invasions and independence declarations that threaten your people. Sometimes you will get beaten, descend into dark ages, famine or ideological mayhem. But have no fear, losing is impossible. In fact, the harder the struggle, the more likely a grand hero emerges from the ashes.
Every crisis you overcome gives you a chance to gain a hero. For your micro-civilization heroes act as inventory items which boost your power. Though you can only have a handful of them equipped at any time, collecting heroes opens endless new effects on your industry, wealth, strength and stability. As you move forward, you will collect higher tiers of heroes, merge them with recipes and form sets to gain absurd powers.
Disasters in this game are no mere random number generator roll. You are in full control of all disaster risks. In fact you know the chance of them happening at any given time so you have chance to mitigate. Uninhabited houses? Chance of fire. Too many people crammed in tight space? Small-pox will probably visit you soon.
Whether by bad luck, or your risk neglect, when a crisis occurs it can be overcome by combat. Fire can be extinguished, disease can be withstood or cured, invasion can be repelled. Regardless of what the problem is, it is always a number of brave micro-people willing to give their lives, who defeat the crisis. In every fight, People are your life, Economy is your strength and Heroes are your weapons. Combine these with workshop abilities and master the combat to become a force to be reckoned with.
History has too many stories to tell in one go. In order to reach the metaphorical stars, you will need to trace back to ancient ages several times, each with a higher purpose. Your Ascension tree contains many challenges organized into Difficulty Tiers each brining new features into the game, more difficult enemies but also access to more powerful heroes, world wonders and ability modifications.

| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 100 |
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| Controller required | No |
| Demo | View demo on Steam |
| Website | Official website |