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Polismos
Polismos is a city builder set in ancient Greece. To ensure your city's prosperity you will need to care for your people, trade valuable resources, enact wise policies, and maybe even dominate other cities.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-26.
“Great little game. The challenge is to stay afloat economically, with other challenges as well, but the main 'puzzle' is how to grow sustainably. has some GREAT IDEAS THAT I CANT SEEM TO REMEMBER EVER BEING USED IN SIMILIAR GAMES, for them alone it is worth trying this game. One…”
— a player, Steam review · 8 hrs played“Yes, but... Is what id say right now. Its a wonderful city builder and a great PUNISHING strategy game. If you don't preplan every move you make, you WILL fail. But that truly doesn't lend itself to the unforgiving hand of RNG. It is a remarkable game, and I cant wait to see how…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“Update: The game is a 5/10 and that's only if you accept its shortcomings generously. After an additional 10 hours I am happy to report that I was right. The terrain remains an insurmountable obstacle. Scaling in size and owning all of your neighbors is pretty fun, however, and…”
— a player, Steam review · 14 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.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Divided Empire: SENGOKU
Greetings city leaders of ancient Greece! I'm thrilled to announce Divided Empire: SENGOKU - my upcoming strategy game set in feudal Japan! Lead your clan through Japan's turbulent Sengoku period and
Version 1.1.1 b
Unity recently discovered that their game engine had a security flaw and recommended developers to update their games to fix the issue - thus this update :) No other changes.
Version 1.1.1
Error fixing Fixed a bug that could happen when placing a building at the map edge. Fixed a potential miss-match between player gov. form and the info shown in the world city-panel. Fixad an issue whe
Version 1.1 is up!
I'm happy to announce that the first major update for Polismos is finally up :) Highlighted changes Warehouse: store goods for later use! Monopteros: small & cheap recreation building Delay demands: g
Version 1.0.5
A (very) small patch to fix a bug... Errors Fixed a bug that could cause save files to not load As usual, huge thanks to those that take the time to report bugs! :)
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-26.
| Genres | Simulation, Strategy |
| Player tags | Historical · Base-Building · Simulation · Strategy · Open World · Singleplayer · City Builder · Resource Management · Sandbox · Economy · RTS (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English |
| Achievements | 12 |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS: Windows 10 Processor: i5-2400 / X4 760K Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: GTX 760 / Radeon 7950 Storage: 10 GB available space