Ascendant Dawn
Games like Ascendant Dawn

Games like Ascendant Dawn

A bronze age grand strategy game about leading a nomadic tribe to empire, currently hindered by UI and control issues according to early reviews.

Age of History 3
A single-player grand strategy wargame covering the full arc of human history, from ancient to futuristic eras, with accessible but sometimes shallow mechanics and a median review playtime around 30 hours.
2024-10-23
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Ascendant Dawn
Games like Ascendant Dawn

Games like Ascendant Dawn

A bronze age grand strategy game about leading a nomadic tribe to empire, currently hindered by UI and control issues according to early reviews.

Age of History 3
A single-player grand strategy wargame covering the full arc of human history, from ancient to futuristic eras, with accessible but sometimes shallow mechanics and a median review playtime around 30 hours.
2024-10-23
- Warfare

Strategy

Bird view / Isometric

Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Ancient Cities

A survival city builder in a procedural ancient setting, with mixed reviews citing clunky building and dull gameplay and median playtime around 26 hours.

2023-03-24

Adventure
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Historical

Primitive Society Simulator

An early-access colony-builder with grand strategy elements, leading a tribe from Stone Age to Bronze Age while surviving, multiplying, and competing for territory.

2024-02-26

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Role-playing (RPG)

Epoch Cycle

A brutal single-player strategy/simulation about rebuilding civilization through four apocalyptic epochs, with extreme environmental swings and a compact ~6-hour campaign.

2026-01-16

Strategy
Side view
Simulator

Ascension

A lengthy single-player cultivation 4X strategy game about rebuilding a sect through disciple management and alchemy, praised overall but hindered by a clunky interface.

2025-05-08

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Sandbox
Drama

TFM: The First Men

An open-world colony sim about guiding Adam and Eve across generations, but reviewers call it unfinished and abandoned, with a median playtime of roughly 9 hours.

2022-11-02

Strategy
Fantasy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Sandbox

Forebearers

A chilled, buggy early-access city-builder about leading a displaced tribe to rebuild and defend a settlement, with reviewers logging a median of about 3.5 hours.

2019-04-12

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

City States: Medieval

A medieval city-building and grand strategy game with trade and war, currently marred by frequent crashes in Early Access.

2026-04-20

Strategy
Indie
Real Time Strategy (RTS)

Of Crowns & Chains

A rough Early Access single-player grand-strategy sandbox about leading a nation in a historically-inspired world, with an aggressive AI and performance issues.

2025-10-16

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Simulator
Historical
Sandbox

Bronze Age - HD Edition

A compact single-player tribe-management strategy game set in 6000 B.C., focused on feeding, sheltering, and defending your people while building toward a kingdom.

2017-09-25

Strategy
Indie
Simulator

Jon Shafer's At the Gates

A single-player dark-age strategy game about clan and resource management, but reviewers report an abandoned, buggy, and very short experience.

2019-01-23

Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Turn-based strategy (TBS)
4X (explore, expand, exploit, and exterminate)
Historical
Sandbox

Rise of Ages

A single-player sandbox civilization game spanning prehistory to space travel, undermined by abandoned development and broken quests.

2019-01-28

Action
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

Age of History 3