This Roman city builder is the perfect game to play while waiting for Anno 117

Anno 117: Pax Romana is just around the corner, slated for release on Nov. 13 this year. However, if you’re itching for some antique city-building right now, there’s one indie game that you would love, and it just got its huge 1.0 release.

The game in question is Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder, released in full on Sept. 16. The game is just as its name describes: a citybuilder set in the times of the Roman Empire, placing you as a governor of a province deep within Germania. Your goal is to found this new settlement and build it from the ground up, all the while combating various dangers, such as barbarian attacks or mythical creatures who care about nothing but wanton destruction.

All the mechanics you’d expect from Anno are there: taxation houses, military buildings, walls, defenses, industrial complexes, farms, and so on. You can produce an incredible number of resources, use them to elevate your citizens’ quality of life, or trade them with other Roman provinces for gold and other goods.

You start with nothing but an idea and work your way up, building homes, temples, courthouses, farms, and so on, until you’ve grown into a true work of city planning art.

Where Roman Triumph differs from Anno is its heavy reliance on the mechanics revolutionized by Banished, making this title more of a colony survival game than a proper city builder. You must help your citizens persevere through harsh winters, heavy rains destroying crops, barbarians invading to take your money and resources, and mythical creatures like dragons swooping in to burn everything to the ground.

It’s a game that’s very heavy on the real-time strategy mechanics, but that is only during events of attacks, which are quite rare by default settings (or disabled altogether if that’s your prerogative).

All in all, it’s the perfect game to sink your time into while waiting for Ubisoft’s next title in the long-standing Anno series. It’s also on sale in celebration of its full release, so do make sure to get it while it’s hot.

Meanwhile, you can also check out older titles like Anno 1800 or, to be more closely related to antique vibes, Anno 1404.

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