Citadelum

It's a cozy city builder game reminiscent of Caesar 3 with a sprinkle of Zeus:Master of Olympus

Really nice flow, graphics and overall atmosphere. I would like some more research tree options but no big deal. The game is excellent as is

Pretty sure everyone isn't having this issue but the audio glitches out, stuttering for me pretty bad. Restarting the game fixes it sometimes, but even after the game is closed sometimes my graphics card will crash later in the evening. I'm pretty sure its from this game and probably the same thing that is causing the audio issue. That said, the game is just alright. It doesn't break the mold on the genre or anything. It could use bit more development, but if it hasn't gotten that by now (2 years post-release) I doubt it will.

It's a fun city builder styled in the old Caesar series. I generally don't play any city builders, so I can't compare to anything recent, but I am thoroughly enjoying my playthrough. The missions are excellent tutorials. They start small with small goals, and slowly build on what you learned on the previous missions until you're managing a full city with farms, mines, clay pits, temples for appeasing the gods, a circus maximus, and all the fun stuff of Roman times. I found the UI to be great. While I would've liked to have a larger area for resource shortcuts at the top, everything else seems well done at displaying information. You can easily see how much of each resource you're producing, how much is being used by your city, and how much is being imported/exported. This allows you to run a streamlined city without over- or underproducing. The tooltips are helpful, and the overlays are great at highlighting trouble areas. There is an overland map that you can discover, as well. And I found this part to be less engaging (and even distracting) from the city building. It also seems like there is a benefit to not discovering the outlying areas at first, as each enemy army discovered increases the chance that you'll be raided. The battles themselves are lackluster, which is fine from a game centered on city building. But thankfully they included the ability to auto-resolve the battles if you wish. Those things only slightly detract from what is an enjoyable city builder.

Good fun, could have completed it quicker on some maps but wanted to build all the epic buildings. Combat can be easily cheesed by just using horses to kite enemies back and forth infront of archers but otherwise fun :)

Another one just checking my time played.

Simple game with decent visuals and decent gameplay. I personally was not a fan of the gods mechanic and disabled it straight away. It will scratch the itch for the city-builder genre, but I would not pay full price for it. Get it on sale if it's cheap enough, but there are definitely better titles out there.