Citizen of Rome

4.3
399 reviews
5K+
Downloads
Content rating
Rated for 7+
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About this game

Citizen of Rome - Dynasty Ascendant is a multi-generational family/Dynasty life sim set in the Ancient Roman Republic.

You get to see how life was in the Ancient Republic, participate in their various customs, festivals and Ludi / sporting competitions, while raising a family and moving up in the social and economic hierarchy of Rome.

You can educate your children, marry them off, sponsor their elections and much more. You'll usually play as the eldest of your sons once your character dies.

The game is open-ended without a set endgame just like in real life, but a grand goal for any ambitious Roman family was to land a Consulship of the republic. This could be your goal in the game as well, climbing the Cursus Honorum and becoming a "New Man" - "Novus Homo"

WARNING: The game just like fate will beat you down from time to time and you might find all that you worked for being taken away from you in an instant, but the way things are set up you'll almost certainly end up growing wealthy and reach the Senatorial class at some point despite various setbacks. There is no game-over and life goes on no matter what

A core philosophy of the game is that just like in real life, there's no winning or losing, just experiencing life and having fun at it no matter where it takes you. The game should be fun in its own way at every level, no matter if you're a prole or a senator, but with things just playing differently and with different goals and challenges

We've been constantly adding new things to the game and hope to continue to do so going forward, especially based on player feedback; Please contribute any ideas, bugs and suggestions via our Discord or an email to rome@thestartupengine.net

Gameplay Features:

• Fully offline, no Ads, no In-App Purchases
• Full life sim with: Marriage, Birth, Health/Illnesses, Death, and Succession
• Property and Economy
• Several key Roman festivals
• Traits and Skills & Education
• Apprenticeships and employment
• Elections, Warfare and Class progression
• Random interactions and events
• Achievements
• Dark Mode
• Modding support (Write external storage perm required for this), see https://rome.rangergo.net/modding-support/
• Personality traits, Heir Designation, Inheritable character portraits and much more

Long live the Republic!

Join us on Discord: https://discord.gg/ZVkxjC5

Read an excellent player made guide - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1993435956
Updated on
Nov 30, 2023

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Ratings and reviews

4.3
384 reviews
Cole
April 10, 2024
This game has a great Bone Structure but I feel like it's missing a lot of meat. While there are many jobs to choose they don't really feel like they make a substantial difference to ur characters life at times. Aside from that the actual format the game comes to u in I find that windows will overlap and make the game more difficult to read which is not good for a game where it moves time on its own as I find I'm making miss informed decisions when the "dynasty" square overlaps the income box
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jeff hall
December 9, 2023
Bones of a good game but this many years later its hard to expect actual fixes. Really poorly balanced with unrealistic mechanics like infinite pregnancy and perfectly equal inheritance with 0 options to avoid or change. Early inheritance should be cheaper and not making a child should be an option The play button might as well be removed as clicking it only causes damage to your progress. Once you get money the game stops letting you spend it and starts just taking it cause yolo banking
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Maariyah Mohammed
December 22, 2021
Update: The issue is fixed!!! Glad that I can now play it, love that you can have female heirs now!!! Previously: really really do like the game but it's currently unplayable for me. For some reason my game is stuck on a certain date. If I exit the app it takes me back to that certain date so I can't actually progress. The bug also prevents anyone in the game the ability to get married. I've already reset my game once for this bug so I'm not really sure what to do.
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CitizenOfRome
May 23, 2021
Really sorry that happened, we'd like to figure out what went wrong and get a fix out as soon as we can. Could you please share more details (like any events that happened before this, family status, etc) via our Discord or via an email to rome@thestartupengine.net to help us do so? Thank you

What's new

Release v1.6.8:
+ Minor tweaks and fixes
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Release v1.6.7:
+ Balance changes
+ QoL/UI improvements
+ Bugfixes and other tweaks
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Major Release v1.6.0: Military ranks, household pets, marriage deals and much more!