Games like Citadelum
If Citadelum is your kind of game, the closest matches are One Military Camp, Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder and KAISERPUNK — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, challenging and chill. 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 →About Citadelum: Citadelum is a city builder set in legendary Ancient Rome. Build your own settlement, gather resources and evolve it into a magnificent city. Explore the world, trade and lead your mighty legions in epic tactical battles. Earn the favor of the Gods or challenge them, if you dare.
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One Military Camp
WHY THIS
Top pick for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citadelum.
Build your own military camp, manage the economy, recruit the best candidates and train them to become elite specialists. Send them on missions across the land to end the war once and for all!
Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadelum.
Second-strongest match for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citadelum.
At the farthest reaches of the empire, a new Roman city is born! Manage and grow your city, please the gods, and survive against barbarians and mythological threats to achieve Roman Triumph!
KAISERPUNK
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadelum.
Third-strongest match for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
Build a city to rule the world in Kaiserpunk, a grand city builder blending production-focused city building with world conquest in an alternate 20th century world. Manage your city, grow industries, build a military, and defeat rivals to become the greatest empire.
Workers & Resources: Soviet Republic
WHY THIS
Shares city building and an atmospheric mood with Citadelum.
Ranked #4 for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
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.
Norland
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadelum.
Ranked #5 for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
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.
Stronghold Crusader HD (2012)
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a nostalgic mood with Citadelum.
Ranked #6 for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
The highly anticipated sequel to the best-selling Stronghold, Stronghold Crusader HD throws you into historic battles and castle sieges from the Crusades with fiendish AI opponents, new units, 4 historical campaigns and over 100 unique skirmish missions.
Stronghold: Warlords
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Citadelum.
Ranked #7 for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
Besiege Great Khans, Imperial warlords and Shōgun commanders in Stronghold: Warlords, the latest 'castle sim' from Firefly Studios. Command AI warlords across the battlefield as you build a castle economy and new gunpowder-fuelled siege engines!
Pioneers of Pagonia
WHY THIS
Shares production chains, city building and a nostalgic mood with Citadelum.
Ranked #8 for Citadelum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
Rebuild hope in a world that was lost in the fog. Lead your Pioneers across the isles of Pagonia, unite scattered tribes, raise thriving communities and discover the history of your people as you reclaim your world in the new story campaign.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Citadelum
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Caesar™ 3
WHY THIS
Shares resource management and a nostalgic mood with Citadelum.
Reviewers of Citadelum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Simulation with Citadelum.
Prove your strength of mind and spirit and you just may be crowned Caesar!
Farthest Frontier
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Citadelum.
Reviewers of Citadelum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citadelum.
Protect and guide your people as you forge a town from untamed wilderness at the edge of the known world. Harvest raw materials, hunt, fish and farm to survive. Produce crafted items to trade, consume, equip and fight with as you battle for your survival against the elements and outside threats.
Zeus Begins
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Citadelum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Citadelum.
Help the young Zeus to come back to Olympus and defeat Cronus. Cronus ate all of his sons but Zeus escaped with the help of his mother,he trained so hard in combat to defeat all the enemies that Cronus send to him. Fight with mythologic creatures and titans across Grece in a beat´em up game!
Tiny Civilization
WHY THIS
Shares a relaxing mood with Citadelum.
Reviewers of Citadelum cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Citadelum.
This is a historical simulation game that promotes the development of civilization based on the match-3 Game. You'll need to gather resources, use skills, discover new technology, and lead humanbeing through a 10,000-year journey to the cosmos.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Citadelum at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Citadelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Citadelum.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Citadelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citadelum.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Bloons TD 6
WHY THIS
Priced ~44% under Citadelum on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Citadelum.
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 ~60% under Citadelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with Citadelum.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Citadelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citadelum.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Citadelum on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Citadelum.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Citadelum.
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!
DORONKO WANKO
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Simulation with Citadelum.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with Citadelum.
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 Indie and Simulation with Citadelum.
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. Shares Indie with Citadelum.
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 and Indie with Citadelum.
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. Shares Indie with Citadelum.
Beautiful Multiplayer Jigsaw Puzzle game where you can design the room you play in!
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Frequently asked about Citadelum
- Is Citadelum verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Citadelum is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Citadelum cost?
- Citadelum is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Citadelum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Citadelum are One Military Camp, Roman Triumph: Survival City Builder, KAISERPUNK.
- Who developed Citadelum?
- Citadelum was developed by Abylight Barcelona and published by Abylight Studios, Gamersky Games.
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