Games like Nova Roma
If Nova Roma is your kind of game, the closest matches are Whiskerwood, Corsair Cove and Norland — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, chill and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Nova Roma is a Roman-themed city-building strategy game developed by Lion Shield and published by Hooded Horse. Players manage growing settlements through base management and colony building while navigating a divine favor system where gods intervene and make demands. The god-objectives mechanic structures progression while atmospheric historical theming creates the setting. Players describe the experience as atmospheric, chill, and contemplative, highlighting the relaxing city-building that avoids overwhelming complexity. Reviewers note the art style blends Rome with modern charm. The challenging gameplay features grind-based progression in a medium-length experience designed for extended sessions. Currently in Early Access at $29.99 USD, it holds a 96% positive rating from 1085 Steam reviews and runs on Steam Deck.
About Nova Roma: The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Players who liked Nova Roma also play
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Whiskerwood
WHY THIS
Shares production chains, city building, grind based progression and an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Top pick for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse.
Corsair Cove
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Build a sprawling pirate haven, raise a fleet to explore the high seas, and take on the Crown to keep the Age of Piracy alive! From ale to flintlock pistols, and from scallywags to swashbucklers, you’ll need to manage complex production chains and govern a rowdy crew to reign supreme over the seas!
Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Third-strongest match for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Lead your noble family in this medieval colony sim, facing off against class conflict, religious struggle, and political treachery. Tend to your people’s needs, uncover the lost knowledge of a fallen empire, and engage in nefarious plots against your enemies.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares city building and an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Ranked #4 for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Build a soviet republic from an impoverished country into a rich industrial superpower in a city builder with intricate production chains and a fully simulated global economy. Manage the lives of your citizens from education to work and party loyalty to criminal activity.
Manor Lords
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Ranked #5 for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Manor Lords is a medieval strategy game featuring in-depth city building, large-scale tactical battles, and complex economic and social simulations. Rule your lands as a medieval lord – the seasons pass, the weather changes, and cities rise and fall.
Blacksmith Master
WHY THIS
Shares resource chain management, resource management, grind based progression and an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Ranked #6 for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Manage your own medieval smithy in Blacksmith Master and supervise the entire process from mining ores and gems to designing and selling finished products. Forge everything from weapons and armor to tools and cooking utensils to fund your craft and become the Blacksmith Master.
Ostriv
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Ranked #7 for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Ostriv is a city-building game that puts you in a role of a governor of an 18th century Ukrainian town to challenge your creative skills and management abilities.
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Nova Roma.
Ranked #8 for Nova Roma fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Nova Roma
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Songs of Syx
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Nova Roma.
Reviewers of Nova Roma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Songs of Syx is a fantasy city-builder with vast battles simulating thousands of citizens and soldiers. Start off as a small village and build, scheme, and fight your way towards a mighty empire. The mechanics are deep and true to life, where tiny events can spiral into the collapse of kingdoms.
Banished
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Nova Roma.
Reviewers of Nova Roma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
In this city-building strategy game, you control a group of exiled travelers who decide to restart their lives in a new land. They have only the clothes on their backs and a cart filled with supplies from their homeland. The townspeople of Banished are your primary resource.
Caesar™ 3
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and an immersive mood with Nova Roma.
Reviewers of Nova Roma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
Kingdoms and Castles
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a relaxing mood with Nova Roma.
Reviewers of Nova Roma cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Nova Roma.
Kingdoms and Castles is a city-building simulation game about growing a kingdom from a tiny hamlet to a sprawling city and imposing castle. Make trade agreements, alliance, and war with neighboring AI controlled kingdoms. Each villager and resource is individually simulated.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Nova Roma at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Nova Roma.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Stardew Valley
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Nova Roma.
You've inherited your grandfather's old farm plot in Stardew Valley. Armed with hand-me-down tools and a few coins, you set out to begin your new life. Can you learn to live off the land and turn these overgrown fields into a thriving home?
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Nova Roma.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nova Roma.
The Bloons are back and better than ever! Get ready for a massive 3D tower defense game designed to give you hours and hours of the best strategy gaming available.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Simulation with Nova Roma.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~77% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Early Access with Nova Roma.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Balatro
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nova Roma.
The poker roguelike. Balatro is a hypnotically satisfying deckbuilder where you play illegal poker hands, discover game-changing jokers, and trigger adrenaline-pumping, outrageous combos.
Don't Starve Together
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Nova Roma on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Nova Roma.
Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Nova Roma.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Nova Roma.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
SuchArt: Creative Space
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Nova Roma.
Paint on any surfaces with numerous tools in Creative Space — a free sandbox version of SuchArt: Genius Artist Simulator. Create masterpieces, complete commissions, and decorate your studio in the most advanced artist sim!
Outpath: First Journey
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Outpath: First Journey is a prologue chapter of the main game, Outpath. An experimental clicker base building game. Craft, gather & manage resources, build your base and buy more islands to exploit and expand!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy with Nova Roma.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Jigsaw Puzzle Dreams
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Nova Roma
- Does Nova Roma run on Steam Deck?
- Nova Roma is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Nova Roma cost?
- Nova Roma is listed on Steam at 29.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Nova Roma?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Nova Roma are Whiskerwood, Corsair Cove, Norland.
- Who developed Nova Roma?
- Nova Roma was developed by Lion Shield and published by Hooded Horse.
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