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CivCity: Rome
CivCity: Rome, an innovative city builder inspired by the world of Sid Meiers Civilization, and created by a collaboration between Firefly Studios and Firaxis Games, invites players to shift focus from building a multi-city empire and zoom-in on the great cities of the Roman Empire, culminating in R
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.
“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 21 hrs played“just 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…”
— a player, Steam review · 20 hrs played“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…”
— a player, Steam review · 28 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-07-23 23:33 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
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Screenshots
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Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.
| Genres | Strategy |
| Player tags | Strategy · City Builder · Rome · Simulation · Historical · Singleplayer · Sandbox (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Spanish - Spain |
| Estimated owners | 100,000 – 200,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | http://www.2kgames.com/civcityrome/civcity.html |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Windows 2000/XP (Windows 7 is not supported), 1.6 GHz processor, 512 MB RAM, 2.5 GB uncompressed space, 64 MB video card (with Hardware T&L, nVidia GeForce 3/ATI Radeon 8500 or better), DirectX 7 compatible sound card, DirectX Version 9.0c