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Romopolis
Developer Lonely Troops
Casual city building. Become an architect. Manage the small polis. Construct an idyllic ancient Roman city with plenty of houses. Work your way to the top through the campaign mode, or create your own scenarios. From the Steam store page
66 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Mar 17, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
75
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48 positive · 16 negative
95% range 63–84%
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
115 of 147 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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60 of 66 · most liked firstUnlike advertisement, this game is NOT full city management game. More like stage clear type puzzle game than city strategy/simulation. Good for killing time in short break, but not really suited for long time play (there isn't much to keep you hooked in). Even with sandbox mode, I don't think this game offers a lot of replayable stuff. Unless you like simple game to kill some time, stay clear from here if you want some heavy strategy/simulation game to get stuck in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romopolis is an indie strategy and simulation game that manages to be surprisingly fun and very challenging, even though there is no combat whatsoever. In this game, you are an architect hired by the Roman Empire to build cities. Each time you succeed your notoriety increases and you will get better (though harder) jobs. Campaign It is divided into 24 levels of crescent difficulty and complexity. Each level has 3 obligatory objectives (Goals): all 3 are required to complete the level and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Short version: 41% The sequel of Townopolis managed to iron out some of the kinks, but it is still far away from being an enjoyable lightweight city builder/resource management game. Long version: [url=http://store.steampowered.com/app/462730/]Townopolis was a game that tried to imitate the mechanics introduced in Build-a-Lot back in 2007, with less than stellar success. Romopolis is a sequel, or more likely a reskin of it, but there are enough small changes here and there to warrant a glance.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's alright, for how cheap it is, but you might not be getting exactly what you expected in this game. Romopolis only appears to be a city builder simulation game on its surface, but after a couple missions it becomes clear that the game is in fact a puzzle game. Each scenario you are given a 5x5 squared grid to build on with obstacles (either in the form of tiles you cannot build on or buildings that impose a negative effect on your nearby structures. Objectives usually require you to have a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🇨🇿 Czech & Slovak Games Week 2023 Review 🇸🇰 Thank you Lonely Troops for the Ukrainian Localization of Romopolis! 💖 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/41475492/sale/CZSKGamesWeek2023]👉 more Czech & Slovak Games games
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A time-management and puzzle game that is designed for (and probably easier to play on) a touchscreen. Keyboard shortcuts for functions would greatly improve playability with the keyboard and mouse. Slow starts and busy toward the end of each scenario. Additional Details Operating System Ubuntu Linux 18.04 x64 CPU Ryzen 5 1500x GPU GTX 1050, nvidia-410.78 Game Saves Automatically, on exit…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romopolis is an old game that has been brought to steam to make the game more accessible to gamers that enjoy these sorts of games on the PC market. Romopolis is a great game for it's genre, though if you're looking for the same experience as Sim City or Cities Skylines, you won't find that here. Romopolis is not a bad game, in fact, it is quite good in the gameplay style it covers, however, I fear that for many people on the PC this could be a let down. You have a campaign mode which provides…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all, Romopolis is not a city management game. Romopolis is mostly a puzzle game with a theme of city management, where you have a limited time and building areas to finish all given tasks. Every level also has a medal time (if you finish before it runs out, you also get a medal), and a Trophy task (optional task that gives you Trophy if you finish it). As for the gameplay; you have 4 resources Denarii, Wood, Stone and Workers. Denarii is used to buy blueprints and other resources and…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lack of Complexity: In a discussion comparing it to other city builders like Caesar 3 or Pharaoh, Romopolis was noted as a simpler alternative.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While not nearly as sophisticated as higher end (and high cost) city simulation games out there, this game scores very high in my book due to it's very low price tag! Watch my First Play and Review video right here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7roLhX3RCsU 24 Challenge Scenarios with different goals are included with the first four having a "hold your hand" tutorial to show you everything you need to know to succeed with this game. Add in a Sandbox mode where you can make your own custom…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yet another mobile game port that you can tell a mile away, by how shallow and non existent the game play is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romopolis looks like it might be a rich city building strategy game, but really it's a simplistic tablet puzzle game where you just tap on things on your iPhone screen to meet various arbitrary goals on a very, very small map. $4 is too much for a tablet game on Steam
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What a cute wonderful little simulation game. I picked this gem up today for $0.59 today. And man this is a steal for such a fun rainy day game. It's pretty basic in it's control; click a square, pick what you want to build and if you have the proper resources you then wait out the timere and vwah lah your new building is built. Definitely a resource balancing game at it's very basic. Balancing Houses, with cultural, market, and religeous buidlings against the cost of new workers, new…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'll start this review by highlighting that this is not a city management simulator, as it may seem. It is a collection of 24 puzzles with city building theme and nothing more. The mechanics are also pretty simple; build houses, houses give you gold, gold buy resources/workers, and with them you build more houses. You also buy "technologies" to unlock higher tier buildings, some of which you need to keep the citizens "happy". Each map consists of a 5x5 grid, usually with some squares where you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not a city builder. This is a puzzle-like clicker. Play something else if you are looking for a Rome city builder.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romopolis is part of a trilogy of time management, mini city builder games. It is my favorite of the 3. The goals are reasonable and easily met. There is a nice variety of buildings to unlock and upgrades. Recommended if you like this sort of game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terminé en un peut moins de 10h, petit jeux sympas, plus un puzzle game qu'un jeux de gestion, ou la moindre erreur d'attention obligera de refaire le niveau pour débloquer tous les trophés et médailles. 100% de succès facile a avoir, seul bémol pour ma par le mode bac à sable, pas intéressant mais obligatoire pour faire les 100% de succès. Petite astuce pour le succès de victoires en bac a sable, prendre une carte avec des batiments de départ et mettre condition de victoire posséder 2…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First impression: small casual time management game This is not a city builder! I've seen 8 of 24 levels. This game has workers that you need to assign to tasks that then take time to complete; and there's a reward for finishing on time. Gameplay is using these workers to build houses that generate income and infrastructure that adds bonuses to this income, wasting as little time as possible while following an efficient building strategy. The staple of time management games, clearing obstacles…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lacks engaging gameplay, becoming very boring and repetitive after just the first scenario. Whether you're a fan of puzzle games, or management sims, you'll be left disappointed. 2/10.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game Type/Genre: City Builder Casual: Yes Theme: Roman Controls: Mouse, simple Difficulty: Moderate AI: None Achievements: 20ish reasonably easy to get Micro A simple point and click city builder where what you build is mostly determined based on pre-set level goals. Few building types and few relevant upgrades quickly devolve into a repetitive level goal oriented gameplay. Recommended? I cannot recommend this game. The amount of building types seems sufficient for the relative small…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a level base challenge game. You build buildings for income and parks to bring happyness! The game brings a challenge each day!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely tedious and boring, You're just replaying the game about 100 times back to back but with one extra feature added each time. And the sandbox mode isn't anymore fun. 1/10 not worth it even for the achievements.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm not going to recommend this game in general. It may be suitable in certain situations, though. You should know what you're going into. This is not a city builder game along the lines of SimCity or Caesar. It is more like a simple puzzle game with elements of time management. There are 24 cities to build. In every city, the grid is 5x5 tiles - sometimes with a few tiles unaccessible to the player. In the beginning, only simple buildings are available. Later on, bigger and better buildings…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game was surprisingly excellent. I had hoped for a city builder, but that's not what this is. It's much more of cross between a puzzle game and a time management game. The graphics may be a bit on the not-cutting-edge-side, but the game is polished, surprisingly well balanced, and offered 20 hours of real entertainment to me. I quite enjoyed it. I highly recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →TL;DR 5/10 Structures can breaks seconds before end, instantly failing a bonus; Buy Megapolis instead I finished the 3rd version called Megapolis (6/10) with enjoyment. This 2nd version of Townopolis is an obvious mobile port that frustrates even more. During the first 1/2 of the game, structures cannot be fortified against breakdown. 4 or 5 can break while waiting for your workers to complete just 1 building. At least Townopolis had a feature to Inspect the building to make it immune from…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is a level base challenge game. You build buildings for income and parks to make people happy. Each level is a new "challenge" with a medal if you do it within a certain time limit, with a bonus trophy if you complete the extra task as well. It's games like this one that make me wish Steam offered a "Meh" button. The Polis Series by Lonely Troops are all on the cusp of being good games, but are just lacking a bit. I give this a thumbs up because it has a great foundation to be a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun little game to pass the time. :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Backlog Day: Romopolis It is more puzzler than actual city builder. Constrained map areas where you need to reach various achievements. Starts off super-easy but gets a little challenging. Apparently a mobile port? Kinda obvious due to the interface, but had no store/MTX signs to it.
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Lonely Troops created a lot of amazing games. But before they made those, they created this. What is this? It's a game from a boring trilogy. All three of these games are almost the same. They are cheap and they look quite appealing. You can even buy a cheap bundle of them all. Townopolis, Romopolis and Megapolis trilogy. It's a bit misleading in terms of the gameplay. They look like a classic city builder simulator. But it's quite the opposite, it's a basic clicker. You click stuff and then…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great little game. Got it on sale and definitely got my money's worth out of it. Neat little puzzles that get progressively harder. Easy to get achievements.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not recommendable
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the second game in the Townopolis Collection. In this game, you basically do the same as in Townopolis, except in Roman times. As in the predecessor, this is more of a relaxing game to wind down or wind away time.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually a..decent.. little game. Nothing amazing, but will burn a bit of time. Feels like something from the late 90s. I'd give it a 5.5/10 rating.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game catches your eye at first glance, but thats it. It starts to get repetitive after a while. It is still worth a shot if on sale though. I wish there was a neutral recommendation option on a situation like this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Small, short and simple. It's a basic city management game which runs fine. Only a few types of resources to worry about and enough upgrades to make it fun. It's only really challenging when you're against the clock but it's fun as a time passer.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a pretty nice puzzle/planning game, If you ever played the Build-A-Lot games, it's pretty much just like those, but set on Ancient Rome (as one would assume by the tittle), and it does the formula very well. Even tho it is just like Build-a-lot, it is less polished than those games, blend graphics, no flashy animations, different backdrops or even a way to zoom in, what is really missed, but for it's price, it's excusable. I would recomend this game, it's a good game for it's price,…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its more of a strategy type game rather than city simulation. The campaign is very short and simple, but some stages can be a little tricky.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I recommend this game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun casual game, about 7 hours of content
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →⚔️"Romopolis"⚔️ is Free on Microsoft Store Link - https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9pp1jj7n7620?hl=en-US&gl=US #Romopolis #FreeGame #Microsoft #FreeGames #Free_Games #gaming
unlabelledView post →Nice sequel to Townopolis.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a nice little time/resource management puzzle, it's a lot of fun (and also challenging without being frustrating) to figure out the right solution to beat the short levels. I don't know what all these negative reviews were expecting, apparently they didn't look at a single picture or video... The game is exactly what it shows in the pictures, nothing more and nothing less. It should be obvious that you don't get something like SimCity here from the price alone...
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →pretty sure this was made in scratch
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like it, it may not have highly complicated mechanics to riddle around on, but it's made in a way that you don't have to see the same mechanics too often, so that you can choose to relax or put in extra effort and still have fun. Well solved in a way for various skillsets as there are optional harder goals, even if you don't change the difficulty.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mildly recommended. If you are looking for a casual puzzle city builder, then this might work. The graphics are dated, levels are fairly simple and the gameplay is more of a time management style. It does have some charm and the scenarios can be challenging. For a few bucks, you can get several hours out of this one.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It takes a bit to get into it but once I did, figuring out each level is a challenge. Like a logic problem. Fun!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very fun city builder with a Roman aesthetics. Most resource management games have a tendency to bore me very quickly; but Romopolis looked really nice, so I decided to try the demo. To my surprise, I had a really good experience and decided to buy the game to continue playing :) My favourite feature is how each match has a goal to reach, so we aren't playing endlessly just accumulating resources forever. There is a purpose to everything! 🏟️
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i very much enjoy this game, it's not overly hard, but the later levels of the campaign mode make for a nice puzzle
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romopolis is a decent build simulation game. It's the most easily understandable game in the XXXXPolis series. As an architect, you will build more and more houses under Caesar's order. These buildings are very beautiful. However, each map only has 25 or less squares to build houses. Tips: 1. I suggest you get most of achievements in the sandbox mode. Because you will become very busy in the campaign mode. 2. When you are ready to challenge the campaign mode, first earn the medal in limited…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →[100% Completion Review] Outline: First things first, this game is not a 'colony sim', a 'city builder' or any other kind of simulation. It is a puzzle game and that is all. Essentially a small, level based, resource and time race puzzle game using a loose Roman city context. It's basic, but it's fun, it's simple yet challenging toward the latter half. It has pleasant music and is fun to 100% with no nonsense achievements. Verdict: If you fancy a little Roman city themed puzzle game to pick…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Romopolis is a simple city builder, I got this as part of a bundle and tried it out once I saw the Rome theme. Overall, very fun, but the campaign is basically a long tutorial with no actual story. I was hoping sandbox mode would have larger maps, but alas. The game is nothing groundbreaking, but it's enjoyable. Good to relax to after work.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cute little building game, good for stress relief.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you consider it a puzzle game with time management added to it then it's okay I guess. Just don't expect this to be a simulation or anything resembling it. It's a casual puzzle game. 5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A nice and simple game for playing once in a while.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a simple but fun sim game. Well worth the cost, especially on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For the low price that it has, I think this game is really good. Some levels are harder than others so you really need to think how you place your buildings and retry the levels several times.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a fun little casual game. I find it more enjoyable than its prequel, Townopolis.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No don't buy it
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