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Ancient Cities

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

★ CELESTIAL EMPIRE: PROLOGUE ★ HUMANICA ★ LAYSARA: SUMMIT KINGDOM ★ SIEGE SURVIVAL: GLORIA VICTIS ★ HIGHRISE CITY ★ UNITED PENGUIN KINGDOM ★ UNITED PENGUIN KINGDOM: HUDDLE UP ★ ENDZONE - A WORLD APART ★ SURVIVING MARS: RELAUNCHED ★ OXYGEN: FIRST BREATH ★ POMPEII: THE LEGACY ★ BANISHED ★ WE ♥ IT 
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Celestial Empire: Prologue

86% 👍 OF 427
About This Game

Embrace your duties as a new provincial governor. Experience the beauty of ancient China, design the city of your dreams, and take care of your people’s needs. Earn the Gods’ favor to maintain the Mandate of Heaven for the ruling dynasty.

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Laysara: Summit Kingdom

82% 👍 OF 1.5K
About This Game

Build and expand your very own settlements in high mountains! Carefully plan production chains and satisfy various needs of your three-caste society while dealing with mountain hazards such as weather breakdowns and avalanches. Are you skilled enough to make your town thrive?

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Mountain Towns
  • …Route Goods with Yaks
  • …Prepare for Avalanches
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Siege Survival: Gloria Victis

79% 👍 OF 1.8K
About This Game

A medieval city under siege and a handful of civilians are all that keep the walls from falling. Mixing survival strategy and resource management, build your camp, craft supplies, and scavenge the occupied city to supply the last troops holding back the invaders.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Supply the Garrison
  • …Scavenge Enemy Streets
  • …Craft Siege Supplies
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Highrise City

77% 👍 OF 1.3K
About This Game

Highrise City offers a new spin on City Simulations & Tycoon games expanding the economy and resource management aspect. Experience a modern take on the genre enriched with a complex resource based economy system.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Production Chains
  • …Supply Citizen Needs
  • …Trade City Resources
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United Penguin Kingdom: Huddle up

89% 👍 OF 637
About This Game

This free version of the United Penguin Kingdom covers the content from one year of in-game time. A city-building game where you build a penguin settlement and satisfy the various needs of your penguins while dealing with seals and killer whales.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Defend Against Orcas
  • …Stop Seals Stealing Food
  • …Trade for Rare Resources
REL Dec 19, 2023 FREE ON STEAM See This Game →
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Endzone - A World Apart

77% 👍 OF 10K
About This Game

Endzone is a post-apocalyptic survival city builder, where you start a new civilization with a group of people after an ecological disaster. Build them a new home and ensure their survival in a shattered world, threatened by constant radiation, toxic rain, sandstorms and droughts.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Balance Food and Water
  • …Protect Against Radiation
  • …Build a Scrap Settlement
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Surviving Mars: Relaunched

56% 👍 OF 2.5K
About This Game

The award-winning sci-fi city builder is back - remastered, expanded and even more stunning. Colonize Mars and survive the process, from exploration and infrastructure to welcoming colonists and achieving long-term stability. Are you ready? Mars is waiting.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Build Oxygen Domes
  • …Mine Passing Asteroids
  • …Run Martian Laws
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Oxygen: First Breath

89% 👍 OF 1.7K
About This Game

This is a free version of Oxygen, featuring the first 50 game-days. Build your city around the Oxygen Center and ensure your people's survival in a post-apocalyptic future, threatened by crack explosions, deadly winds, droughts and frosts. Lead your people and keep the Oxygen Center running!

Player reviews say you can…

  • …Keep the Oxygen Center Running
  • …Seal Toxic Cracks
  • …Prepare for Harsh Weather
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Pompeii: The Legacy

81% 👍 OF 294
About This Game

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.

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Banished

90% 👍 OF 43K
About This Game

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.

Player reviews say you can…

  • …accept nomads into a town hall and watch your food reserves collapse overnight.
  • …run out of tools and have your economy grind to a halt within a year.
  • …have a lone 22-year-old woman become the foundation of a town for 60 years.