Games like The Ancients
Looking for games like The Ancients? Here are top open world turn-based strategy recommendations with a historical focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Ancient Cities, Darkout or Project AURA.
1 61%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, grinding61% User Score 1,190 reviewsAncient Cities is a Survival and Strategy City Builder PC game through the ages, strongly focused on history and realism. Currently being developed by Uncasual Games. Starting in the Neolithic era, you will have to guide your people through generations, discovering and improving technologies, managing resources and population, facing threats from raiders and Mother Nature herself. And, ultimately…
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51%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization46% User Score 391 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsDarkout is a sandbox action-game with survival and strategy components. You are the only survivor after your escape pod crashes on a strange planet. The environment is full of mysterious and hostile shadow creatures, and the only way to survive will be to gather resources used to craft and researching new weapons and technologies.The world is sunk in permanent darkness and the shadow creatures sur…
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57%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding57% User Score 825 reviewsProject Aura is a simulation/strategy videogame where you take control of a colony of climate disaster survivors. In the near future, humans will face the drastic consequences of climate change. Forced to take refuge in vital reserves using cryo-preservation, they await a second chance. At the end of the 21st century, humans, finally aware of the great climate disaster, dedicated their efforts n…
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64%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsoptimization, stability64% User Score 307 reviewsDYNAMIC AERIAL ACTION RPG COMBATArmed with a mystical tetherhook and agile glider wings, you will lead your tribe in taking down the gigantic beasts terrorizing and corrupting your homeland. Taking advantage of your agile swinging and flying abilities, you will surprise your enemies with aerial maneuvers that allow you to cling onto their massive forms, and performing critical attacks to bring dow…
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50%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, replayability50% User Score 259 reviewsWe take the colony sim genre into the near future, onto a lush planet where humans are making their first foothold. Characters and alien wildlife are brought to life through a rigorous simulation and the game plays out as a tug-of-war between humans and nature on a planet full of opportunities and dangers. Understanding the alien environment is crucial - discovered resources and crafting options e…
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59%Game Brain Scorestory, graphicsstability, optimization59% User Score 6,096 reviewsPlanet Explorers is an open world voxel based sandbox adventure RPG game set on a distant planet. The game uses a new OpenCL calculated voxel system to allow players to change the terrain in any way, create new objects such as weapons, vehicles, objects, and do it anywhere.
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49%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystability, optimization49% User Score 109 reviewsStone Rage is a prehistoric openworld survival game in where you either play as a humanoid, neanderthal or as a creature. You will find friends and create enemies as you struggle for survival through a prehistoric landscape filled with dangerous animals, scarce resources, and a harsh climate.
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84%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstability, grinding84% User Score 875 reviewsSimmiland is a god-like card game. In this game you indirectly influence a small civilization by manipulating their surroundings by playing cards Playing cards on different biomes and objects will result in different findings. The way you play the game will define how mankind will develop!
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70%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstory, stability66% User Score 209 reviewsCritic Score 83%10 reviewsFrozen Synapse 2 is the sequel to the award-winning turn-based tactical game. Command your squads in a vast procedurally generated city: enter any building, perform any mission, execute any strategy.
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83%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability83% User Score 2,435 reviewsEvolve your primitive hunter gatherers through thousands of years of technological advancement. Feed, protect and grow your tribe, build towns and industry, and advance through the ages in this first person civilization builder for PC.
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