Citizen of Rome

421 reviews
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Teen
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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, military career, honors, and Class progression
• Random interactions and events
• Achievements
• Dark Mode
• Pets!
• Modding support, 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
Experience life in Ancient Rome in this old-school multi-generational life sim
Updated on
Sep 10, 2026
Available on
Android, Windows

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Ratings and reviews

405 reviews
A Google user
April 6, 2020
It is a very good idea, but the execution isnt that good. There is barely anything to do besides buy property and the occasional random event(i personely got the same events over and over.). It would really benefit the game if you could do more outside of random events. And some of the job names are in Latin and theres no translation or even a description of any job, a job description for the jobs with latin names would be really helpful.
15 people found this review helpful
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david
May 20, 2025
It can be fun, but the amount of event pop-ups are ridiculous when the game is sped up. I'm trying to save up money, but instead, I'm just busy pushing buttons to get rid of the events. It's the same events over and over and over... and I have to press the same damn buttons over and over. There is no reprieve. They are pretty much back to back, and the game starts to feel tedious. I will try to start a new game and do things differently to see if it changes anything... automate options would be
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Erin Alexander
December 11, 2020
Update: As of right now, the issue with the game crashing when a certain event pops up has been fixed!! Apparently the latest game update did fix it, but I did have to delete the app and reinstall it. And, when I reinstalled all was fixed and my previous game data was saved!! This is an awesome game, so glad the issue was taken care of!!
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CitizenOfRome
October 17, 2020
The latest release v1.3.6 fixes this without having to reset your game. In v1.3.5 we'd recommend you avoid this event by choosing the don't steal option (only one of the several outcomes in that event leads to this crash) Truly sorry for the inconvenience and thank you for your patronage!

What’s new

Release v1.6.35:
+ Latest Weekly Build
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Major Release v1.6.0: Military ranks, household pets, marriage deals and much more!