Fit check
Is Ancient Cities worth it for you?
We tell you who should skip it, too.
Play it if you…
Good fit- City-builder players who prefer managing an ancient tribe
- Strategy fans interested in societies developing across generations
- Players who enjoy survival management with trade, conflict, and migration choices
Skip it if you…
Saves you a refund- Players seeking fast-paced sessions rather than a settlement builder that encourages taking time
- Players who want to assign every citizen's task directly instead of using skill-based automation
- Players seeking a military strategy game focused on commanding armies
Our take on Ancient Cities
Rather than centring on a single ruler or army, this city builder follows a tribe across generations and combines settlement management with regional decisions to trade, attack, or migrate. Citizen task automation shifts some day-to-day work away from direct micromanagement.
What is Ancient Cities?
Ancient Cities is a survival-focused city-building game set in a procedurally generated European Stone Age world, spanning the later Ice Age through the Neolithic period.
Lead a tribe across multiple generations by balancing people and supplies, advancing technology, and expanding a settlement. Environments extend from the Mediterranean region to Scandinavia, with local cultures shaping wildlife, structures, tools, materials, and knowledge. Citizens select work according to their abilities and experience, limiting the need for constant individual commands. On the regional map, tribes may exchange goods, raid nearby groups, or relocate when available resources diminish.
How Ancient Cities plays
- 01Citizen task automation
- People perform work matched to their individual skills and knowledge.
- 02Regional tribe choices
- Trade with nearby tribes, attack them, or migrate when supplies become scarce.
- 03Stone Age settings
- Choose locations from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia and periods spanning the end of the Ice Age through the end of the Neolithic.
Ancient Cities compared to similar games
Old World follows an empire across generations and includes political decisions such as marriage and raising heirs. Ancient Cities focuses on Stone Age settlement building, population and resource management, and survival, with regional choices to trade with, attack, or leave neighbouring tribes.
Ancient Cities: platforms & release
Is Ancient Cities worth it?
It is worth it if: city-builder players who prefer managing an ancient tribe. Skip it if: players seeking fast-paced sessions rather than a settlement builder that encourages taking time.
Where can I download Ancient Cities?
Use the Download Now button on this page: it opens Ancient Cities's store page, where you can choose how to get it.
What platforms is Ancient Cities on?
Windows only.
