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CivCity: Rome
Developer FireFly Studios, Firaxis Games
CivCity: Rome is a city building strategy game by Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games. It includes elements from two game series, Caesar and Civilization. The player manages various cities of the Roman Empire by strategic placement of buildings. Making sure that each neighborhood has access to all the commodities it needs to upgrade the residences of citizens is the primary challenge. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
179 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
120 positive · 57 negative
95% range 61–74%
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| Steam reviews | 120 | 57 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
679 of 953 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 179 · most liked firstjust as good as it always was, everyone for years has struggled with the "lazy workers bug" making it unplayable.. BUT... if you start the game up, change graphics to the lowest, exit, restart and change the graphics back it fixes the problem. a little annoying but only takes a second, hope this helps others because it took a while to find it and seems noone has the solution up 9/10 for an old classic
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! I played this game 15+ years ago when it came out. Very fun. Loved it. Saw it last week ---> Nostalgia impulse buy. The only problem was that it had a bug that rendered it COMPLETELY UNPLAYABLE, namely a few hours into the game the workers would sit idling all day. The bug is still not fixed after 15+ years. I have tried all the work-arounds suggested online (uninstall/reinstall, admin permissions, change compatibility settings, etc.) and the bug keeps returning. ONE…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Aside from a few bugs and some irritating gameplay quirks, the blend of Caesar III style city building with light Civilization inspired systems works fairly well. The core loop of constructing and managing a Roman city is satisfying, and there’s a strong sense of atmosphere as your settlement grows from a small outpost into a bustling, class driven city. The addition of a level editor also gives it some extra longevity, letting you create and experiment with your own scenarios. However the game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →CivCity: Rome was my introduction to the Civilization series as a whole. It's an amazing and simple city builder that has the perfect amount of depth that I enjoy. However, I sadly cannot recommend buying this game in the current year for one big reason: Lazy Workers. Lazy Workers is a bug in the code (likely from the game's age/running on newer hardware) that causes workers of a certain job or multiple to not work and stay to their homes 24/7. The reason this is a problem is due to how to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually, this is a great game. It's a shame it has a game breaking bug that has no fix. Shortly after starting a game the workers simply stop working preventing the game from moving forward. I tried 4 or 5 "fix's" posted in the discussions but nothing worked. I tried and tried because I really liked the game but......
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to love this game and come back to it every few years, but for some reason there is now a bug that renders the game pretty much unplayable. Very reliably, an entire category of workers will refuse to work - they will go to their shop/work site, sometimes even collect matierals for their shop, then got to sleep and never wake up or work. Apparently the only way to resolve this is to uninstall and reinstall the game, but every time I re-launch it again the bug returns. It's impossible to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly I will not be playing this game anymore. The license agreement is no longer acceptable. First they take my money, then they change the agreement. And do you think they will give me a refund? If this ain't a bait and switch scam, I don't know what is!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game suffers from a known bug that renders it unplayable (the well workers laying down). I tried several different "fixes" from forums online but nothing could permanently fix this problem for me. I would love to love this game but until this is fixed, for me it's a no.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →9/10 saves you will experience a glitch called 'lazy workers'. There is no permanent solution, and there is no guarantee that you can fix it. 8/10 times you will be forced to restart a level entirely, which can mean hours of time lost on later campaign levels. Genuinely a waste of money, do not buy this period.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →NOTE: There is a game-breaking bug that makes citizens not actually work. There are 2 possible permanent fixes to this issue (Walkthroughs included in links): -Setting compatibility mode to Windows 7 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2906130076 -Removing Graphic Config file https://steamcommunity.com/app/3980/discussions/0/828925849531132199/ Bugs aside, this is a a fun city builder with some very interesting gameplay. It has a fun campaign to serve as a tutorial. The…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is still relatively decent, almost 20 years later. Would I recommend it? No, not really. Unfortunately, the game suffers from a few bugs that make playing it possible, but incredibly painful. I managed to find workarounds to the bugs (which I'll share below), but they occur so frequently, that it becomes a hindrance to the gameplay experience. 1) The 'lazy workers' bug - You'll notice that building production-based buildings and infrastructure will assign workers, but the workers…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Women only show up when a man's shack upgrades into a nice home. What did the devs mean by this?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It just wont work on modern systems or at least you have to be a PC wiz to make it happen. its homework for the average person
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Let me start by saying I love this game - or I use to. About a year ago, I noticed my workers were 'lazy.' They were suppose to be working but they wouldn't, they just stay in their homes. I previously have played this game for hours and completed the campaign, so I know how to play and that the houses need basic things and location - but even the first entry level campaign story doesn't work. This type of game is my favorite, historic time period city builder with a campaign - but I can't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Possibly my favorite game of all time. The graphics suck because it was made in the early 2000s. But I've tried Civilization and Sims and neither compares. If I ever become filthy rich, I'm paying some game designers to remaster the game with better graphics. Despite that, it's been some 20 years and I'm still not sick of this game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →there is a bug in the workers. there is flax in the warehouse the Tunic makers have collected flax and have it in their shops but are not producing tunics
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy, not even on sale. They have a game breaking bug where your workers refuse to work that still hasn't been fixed. I intermittently have gotten the game to work using the proposed fixes found online but none are long lasting. Waste of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It looks like a really fun game, but unfortunately the workers just lay around not working unless you re-start or re-install multiple times.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a nostalgia trip. I don't ever play the story mode, just free play. It's excellent.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I Have FIXED the Widescreen Resolution Bug! NOTE: There are two configuration files: one is C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\CivCity Rome\CivCityRome.configuration.xml and the other is %userprofile%\Documents\CivCity Rome\CivCityRome.GraphicsSettings.xml. you do NOT want to edit the former one under program files; in that one, it explicitly mentions that <!-- width/height/colourdepth don't work yet! --> <graphics width="2560" height="1440" colourdepth="32" detail="1.0"> You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoyed this game until I noticed frustrating glitches and bugs preventing me from getting further along in the game. I tried various fixes, but the bugs persist. At a certain point I was spending more time researching solutions than playing the game. It's disappointing because I really liked it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fairly buggy, an oldie but a goodie. I loved this game as a kid, it can be a little difficult to figure out at times but it is fun once you get the hang of it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It was an awesome game BUT it doesn't work anymore. You can install&play however during the game the workers stop doing their work and the whole game comes to a halt, you can watch but not play anymore. What I dont understand is that @Steam is still selling this NON FUNCTIONAL game !
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to love this game when it originally came out but as people mentioned before on modern systems (Win 10 and 11) it just dosent work anymore so avoid buying. The main problem is the workers, yes some actually do their jobs but lets look at the Fire Watch people. In the 2nd mission of the main campaign you will get a lot of fires but even if you put Fire Watchers out ...thats all they do...just watch and let the fire just burn them down...they don't bother putting out the fires at all. It…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Super buggy. I've spent more time finding ways to get the game to work correctly than is reasonable. I've tried verifying the cache, reinstalling the game, changing graphics settings, changing the compatibility, doing some other work-arounds as suggested by others. And for the last 24 hours every time I try to play the game it crashes after about 10 seconds, even after a reinstall. Steam refuses to give me a refund for a known broken game, so buyer beware. Make sure you read other reviews…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its bugged and non of my workers are doing any work, so its impossible to advance.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a classic city-builder, offering a superior ancient Roman simulation with a unique Civilization research twist. The satisfying progression and deep mechanics are genuinely engaging, often surpassing modern titles. However, the game's excellence is crippled by a critical technical flaw: poor compatibility with modern systems (Windows 10/11). Persistent crashes, glitches, and worker bugs make gameplay unstable. Due to these pervasive technical issues, I cannot recommend CivCity: Rome to the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a game from my childhood that I am so glad I found on Steam. I actually came looking for this because during my last move I found the old disk and remembered how much I loved to play. This is the game that really launched my interest in city and empire building games. Personally, I still find it a lot of fun despite it's age and think it has held up well. It can be a bit buggy sometimes, as others have mentioned, but it hasn't been too bad for me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As addicted to this game as an adult as I was a child
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Used to love this game, bur there's a lot of game breaking bugs, like workers who refuse to work and campaigns where you are dependent on trade to manage, but the trading city just suddenly stops sending goods. it gets really frustrating when you are 2 hour into a map, and this happens and you can't finish and need to start over.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love this game so much. I love the gradual step up in complexity of tasks to successfully complete your mission in different colonies you're assigned to govern. And...y'know...I love you. *low-hugs*
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →General details are nice, but there is a known issue with this game that causes workers to simply do nothing. This severely decreased the quality of the game for me, as you constantly have to verify your files and even then it may not work properly. There is no real fix for this and the issue seems to have been around for some time.My refund was also denied because I made the mistake of actually trying to play the game for more than 2 hours to determine whether or not the issue could be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The "Lazy Workers" bug makes the game unplayable and the developers won't fix it. This was a waste of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →great until you get the works decide not to work glitch
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like how the citzens say things when you click on them.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is not patched - some in game workings do not function correctly. Ex- Mine workers don't work or dock workers don't work - this impedes the game flow and functionality.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a lot of fun playing this game, although I ended up putting it on silent as the noises were getting annoying. Trying to play this game in 2025 was tricky. I found it would frequently glitch and the only way to fix the issue of people not going to work was to uninstall and reinstall the game every time. In the end this stopped my playing binge of this game. Although I will definitely play it again one day.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I could even excuse the fact that I have to play it all stretched out horizontally if I didn't keep getting that glitch where workers just stop working. Yes, I did that thing where I deleted all the inexplicably-not-producing-stuff structures and saved and quit and reloaded. That worked, except for when it didn't. No, I didn't need some other resource for the worker to start his work; it was wellworkers I was having trouble with. I enjoyed what I played, but once I literally couldn't play it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →CivCity: Rome is an ancient game from 2007. It's a whopping 17 years old at the time of this review. The game lacks support for any modern gaming display resolutions (or widescreen monitors), hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. This was a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GOOD NEWS GOV'NAH, THE SENATE HAS GRANTED US A LOAN
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing on Windows 11: The game is unfortunately completely broken. Workers stop working time and again, after multiple 'fixes' found throughout internet, they work or not for a bit and then the game breaks again. I don't know why I even wasted my time trying to fix it, when it just doesn't work. Do not waste your time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shop vendors randomly will not produce goods. Unable to complete campaigns. Very frustrating. Waste of money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is broken. The basic premise of the game - get workers to build your city up, but the workers don't even work, which is known glitch. You will be completely stuck as the glitch will keep returning even after reinstalling and changing windows compatibility modes.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well and wood people wont work, makes gameplay impossible. Its possible to fix this by maxing out resolution settings a certain way. Even with this odd fix, the way crashes after a min of gameplay. I ran with GPU and chipset, with no luck. Save your money. Sad because this game was a gem back in the day.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This has to be the buggiest game I have ever played. Workers won't work, and then I get steam not found when trying to run it. Avoid this game like the plague
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nostalgia game from childhood that still mostly holds up. The lazy workers bug was a little annoying to deal with, but fixing it is fairly easy, just had to delete and redownload a couple files every 1-2 days. Definitely feels like an outdated game with how quickly city happiness can plummet and how unbalanced some resources/goods output is. But I love seeing all the tiny people running around doing their jobs and buying things for their homes. And watching the Colosseum fights, of course.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Has game breaking bugs which are still not fixed. Other than that good classic City Builder
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →once you log out, the next time you play none of the buildings or the citizens work, so wasted game play
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love this game, and I cannot stress that enough. There is so much to do and so many upgrades for houses, research to do. Just playing with one settlement you can be working on it for weeks. This really is the ultimate city builder game for me.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It lags, hangs, crashes to the desktop, crashes the entire machine forcing a re-start, has to constantly verify the files, uninstall everything and re-install, in order to TRY fixing LOTS of issues, such as the workers not ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ working, (despite having all the means to) which is needed to advance the campaign and the civilization. I made it to level 6 out of 9 before giving up. Ain't even gonna bother with the freeplay, given all the issues above. ♥♥♥♥ this garbage.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's an older game but I still find it very enjoyable, I played this all the time when I was little. I wish creating a custom map wasn't as difficult, I can't seem to figure out how to allow researching topics when I play my custom maps, but I have fun building up cities regardless.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game but it no longer works. It worked for a while, then got glitchy, then just stopped working. I get an error message I dont understand, I dont know who to contact or how, so I guess Im done with this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →would be nice if people don't go on strike
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game is routinely bugged. Half of the workers do not do any work collecting resources or in their shops making game progress impossible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, combat in this game is ass. Don't play millitary missions, unless you hate yourself. If your workers do nothing all day, try to change their jobs, and it should handle that. This game is simple in its representation of Roman life, but it's effective. You get to see for yourself, how organically your city evolves, had you done everything correctly. And that is, what sets it appart from the likes of Anno series, in which all your production is disconnected from your own people. You…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It crashes a lot!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's hard to tell whether this game is really good or I'm just nostalgic. 8/10, it's kinda buggy.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The phrase "Governor, your town happiness is falling" (accompanied by a deluge of rain) will forever hold a place in my mind. And frankly, for all its faults, I really love this silly game. Many years ago, I played CivCity: Rome on a Windows XP (still have the disk somewhere in my desk!). If you can believe, it was sold at a Scholastic-book warehouse sale some time in 2012. There were a few problems with game stability (crashes, as one can expect from something made in 2006) which are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I used to enjoy this game but it no longer functions. Workers just sleep all day!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i like city-builder games.
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