Island Builder: Cities of Rome

Fun and Addictive

Contains adsIn-app purchases

About this game

Take the role of a visionary Roman governor and build your island empire across distant seas in this peaceful city builder with strategic depth. Begin with a modest settlement and grow it into a flourishing civilization through tile placement, smart planning, and resource management. Explore new islands, harvest resources, and build thriving cities that reflect your leadership, all at your own pace.

Manage production chains, balance your citizens’ needs, and trade to sustain your expanding realm. Every decision matters: placing terrain tiles to unlock new land, crafting materials, optimizing trade routes and constructing landmarks. Each island presents a new puzzle to solve as your world comes to life, one tile and building at a time.

Game Features:
Build and manage: Design your ideal cities with houses, roads, workshops, and monuments.

Explore islands: Discover new lands, resources, and challenges across expanding archipelagos.

Optimize and solve: Balance production, trade, and logistics in a satisfying strategic puzzle.

Lead your people: Fulfill your citizens’ needs, deploy advisors with unique skills, and watch your Roman empire prosper.

Strategize and expand: Plan wisely to grow from a small settlement into a great island empire.

Expand, explore, and forge your story as a true master of island strategy and city management — the seas await your command.

Ratings and reviews

Currently on scenario 3, I really love the idea of the game, but everything takes forever to-do. Would be great if you had more than one transport ship or could add multiple goods per transport. No fun playing for 15 minutes before having to wait and come back 30 minutes later to continue playing. Would also love a free build sandbox to just build and play. Overall, it's enjoyable, but only in small increments.

REALLY enjoying this so far! it takes me back to the old "rome" city builder games on the computer! (which I was obsessed with growing up). The graphics are cute and it seems not difficult to maneuver the buildings and etc if needed. I also would recommend maybe more "idle" tasks, something to collect or to do since you are waiting a long time for resources, ships, etc

one of the best strategy city builders I've played. you have to manage space and resources. good mechanics and tech tree. Map 3 seems to have a bug, it says I need 650 population to move on. houses can only be upgraded to level 2, which at max needs met only makes 615. 10 houses on each of the three islands. I hope this gets fixed as the game has been great.

What’s new

Salve, Governor!
Bug fixes to improve the player experience.