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Pax Augusta
Pax Augusta is probably the most authentic ancient city-building simulation. Build flourishing cities and look after your citizens. Earn gold with production and trade of goods and build impressive monuments. Strengthen your influence and become a Roman emperor!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-25.
“Very nice city builder. It plays well and the visuals and buildings variety make the city feel realistic and organic. The campaign is well paced and brings a progressive learning of the game mechanics. I was waiting for a good Ancient Rome city builder for many years and this…”
— a player, Steam review · 27 hrs played“The initial release did have some bugs that made parts of the game unplayable, but the developer is supporting and updates are coming. Things might still break as updates and changes occur, but beyond this, it is a great Roman city-builder - especially for someone who grew up…”
— a player, Steam review · 47 hrs played“An otherwise great city builder except YOU CANNOT REBIND KEYS. Instead, it gives you a handful of preset options, such as using WASD, arrow keys, or numpad for camera movement, but will not let you simply manually rebind keys to, for example, ESDF. Absolutely ridiculous design…”
— a player, Steam review · 0 hrs playedAchievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-26.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Patch 1.05.00
Gameplay Fixed a bug that prevented flood and fire disaster events from triggering. Fixed several bugs in Story Mode, especially in the Britannia campaign, where it was impossible to leave the island.
Patch 1.04.07
Performance & Optimization The movement animations of the NPCs have been optimized. NPCs that are not visible are no longer animated, which significantly reduces the load on the GPU. The shadow castin
🏛️ Pax Augusta – Important Update: Performance, QoL & Security
🏛️ Pax Augusta – Important Update: Performance, QoL & Security Balancing / Gameplay Changes & Quality of Life Updates This update delivers important performance, stability, and quality-of-life improve
Patch 1.03.00
Balancing/Gameplay changes / QoL • Aqueducts: The ability to cross aqueducts was disabled because it irritated too many players. • Personal Slaves: Prices increased 10 times. • Decoration (Sedan): Res
1.02.01 - Hotfix
Hotfix Some players reported that after pressing the P key, the buildings were never completed.
Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-25.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Simulation · Strategy · Rome · City Builder · Historical · Grand Strategy · Resource Management · Management · Realistic · 2.5D · Isometric · Singleplayer (Steam store community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, German * , French, Italian, Spanish - Spain * |
| Achievements | 19 |
| Official site | https://pax-augusta.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 64-bit Processor: Intel Core i5-6402P or AMD Ryzen 1300X Memory: 16 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 4 GB or AMD Radeon R9 380 4 GB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 35 GB available space Sound Card: Integrated or dedicated DirectX 11 compatible soundcard