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Grow a Roman settlement into a city by managing workers and production, trading across a regional map, and courting the gods.
Released 17 Oct 2024
Build Roman Production Chains
Appease the Gods
Explore for Mythic Artifacts
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.
Developed by Abylight Barcelona · Published by Abylight Studios, Gamersky Games
You oversee a Roman settlement and guide it as it grows, balancing the needs of its residents with available workers, supplies, and income. Build housing and civic services, keep people fed, and provide water through aqueducts.
Gather and refine resources through farms, workshops, quarries, and other production chains. Improve buildings, plan the placement of services, and raise defenses against barbarian attacks as your population and city develop.
Missions and sandbox play offer different ways to build. Beyond the city, explore a regional map, establish trade routes, send legions into auto-resolved battles, and seek artifacts. Temples and offerings can win the gods’ favor, though their reactions may also bring trouble.
Players often enjoy Citadelum as a return to classic Roman city builders, praising its settlement planning, resource management, campaign goals, and approachable pace. Some also appreciate its visuals and atmosphere, and the gods and regional map add welcome variety for some players. Recurring reservations include repetitive missions, limited depth over longer play, simple combat, and systems such as offerings or population growth that some find tedious.
Defy the Gods of the Pantheon or follow their will. Become the master of oh so many lives and destiny of so few in this twist to the genre face to face with the old deities.
Build your settlement. Gather and refine resources from forests and quarries, breed animals, grow vegetables, fish and make wine, so you can keep your population healthy and fed. Improve your buildings and ensure water supply with aqueducts. Welcome citizens to your village as artisans, farmers, carpenters... or train them to join your legions in different units. Towers and walls will protect your village from barbarian attacks, while it grows into a magnificent city.
Expand. Explore the world map, free villages under siege and experience the power of the most advanced armies of the era: the legion, engaging in tactical auto-battle combat. Once the territory is secured, you can set trade routes, import exotic resources and scale up your economy. Send out your explorers to find a collection of mythological objects that will help you in your expansion and complete missions for the Senate.
Honour. Rise to the pantheon and gain the favor of the gods. Build temples, make offerings so they will grant you gifts. But beware, because gods behave in a capricious and ruthless manner; worship one of them and you may suffer the wrath of another. Interaction with deities allows a non linear, replayable narrative, full of mythical encounters. Prepare to be amazed when they come down to earth and help you, or tremble with fear if they punish your people.
City Building, evolved. Citadelum presents a unique three layered gameplay, based in city building core mechanics, strategic expansion and commerce, and the role of the gods. You will find different missions, artifacts and challenges in every playthrough.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 25 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 5 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
