Autonomous Civilization
Tom Hestas Games iPhoneiPadiPod touchMac
Autonomous Civilization is a free Games app for iPhone and iPad by Tom Hestas. Requires iOS 17.0. Updated August 21, 2026.
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 5 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Aug 21
- 2026 · v0.20.0
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About Autonomous Civilization
The automation age has begun. Your civilization is not ready. Choose the United States, European Union, China, or Japan and guide it from 2026 to 2051 through a period of extraordinary technological and social change. Autonomous Civilization is a systems-driven strategy game about turning innovation into durable prosperity. Research artificial intelligence, build autonomous freight networks, secure critical industries, strengthen the electricity grid, negotiate international agreements, and help society absorb the disruption. Every solution moves the bottleneck. Faster automation can raise productivity while displacing workers. Reshoring can strengthen supply chains while driving up costs. Clean energy can cut emissions while straining the grid. Trade restrictions can protect one industry and weaken three others. MAKE CABINET-LEVEL DECISIONS Choose a limited set of policies every six-month turn. Commit fiscal resources and political capital, then watch immediate, delayed, and unintended consequences unfold. LEAD FOUR DISTINCT CIVILIZATIONS Each playable bloc has its own institutions, industrial strengths, demographic pressures, political constraints, and viable route to victory. BUILD THE PHYSICAL AUTOMATION ECONOMY Develop AI, autonomous systems, smart infrastructure, robotics, and social adaptation. Research alone is not enough: regulation, manufacturing, public trust, and infrastructure determine whether technology actually delivers. NAVIGATE A LIVING WORLD Respond to market corrections, strikes, cyberattacks, climate damage, supply shortages, pandemics, migration pressures, elections, and industrial breakthroughs. Rival blocs pursue visible strategies and react to the same changing world. SHAPE TRADE AND DIPLOMACY Form standards alliances, climate accords, mineral partnerships, and AI safety agreements—or use tariffs and export controls to slow a competitor. WIN MORE THAN AN ECONOMY Civilization Score measures prosperity, social cohesion, sustainability, technological capability, and strategic resilience. Raw GDP or maximum automation alone cannot secure victory. Designed natively for iPhone and iPad, Autonomous Civilization includes touch-first navigation, multiple local save slots, deterministic campaign seeds, reduced-motion support, an interactive tutorial, a permanent Field Manual, and transparent explanations for changing statistics. No accounts. No advertising. No in-app purchases. No tracking. Campaign data stays on your device.
App privacy
The developer, Tom Hestas, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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