Polylithic
Gather, craft and build a Stone Age settlement, alone or with up to 9 friends, in a bright open world that fights back.
70% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Games like The Ancients
Did The Ancients leave you in a replayable frame of mind? These games are a good place to start.
Ancient Cities
Ancient Cities is a survival city builder set in the European Stone Age. Pick any time and place, from the end of the Ice Age to the late Neolithic, and guide a tribe through generations: gather, hunt, build, and watch your people live and work on their own in a fully simulated world. Slow, detailed and surprisingly peaceful for a game about not starving.
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64% of 1,927 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 37$29.99Folk Emerging
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems. Explore the wilderness, hunt megafauna, outsmart competitors in trade & autobattler combat. Discover fire, agriculture, politics... and survive to tell the tale.
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85% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$24.99Dawn of Man
Lead a band of Stone Age humans through 10,000 years of prehistory: hunt mammoths, stockpile food for winter, raise megaliths and research your way to the Iron Age. A slow, satisfying survival colony sim where each settlement tells its own story.
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86% of 17,172 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 305$24.99Polylithic
Lead a Stone Age tribe from desperate hunter-gatherers to the first real settlements. Craft humanity's earliest tools, hunt mammoths, tame a hyena, and grow a village in a bright low-poly world that would very much like to eat you. Play the story alone or build your tribe with up to 9 friends.
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70% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99Sapiens
Sapiens is a prehistoric colony sim where you start with nothing and guide a small tribe across thousands of years of discoveries, on a procedurally generated planet bigger than Earth. Build towns piece by piece, research by poking the world itself, and play alone or build sprawling cities with friends.
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79% of 2,080 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$24.99Humanica
Humanica is a settlement builder that starts you in 10,000 B.C. with sticks, stones and a handful of hungry settlers, then walks you all the way to iron tools and windmills. Explore a hexagonal world, shape the land itself, and grow a village that looks as cheerful as it is hard-won.
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92% of 234 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99Rise of Man
Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements. Can you guide your people through the ages and conquer all the challenges ahead of them.
17% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Africa, ten million years before anyone wrote anything down. You lead a small clan of hominids from the treetops to two legs and beyond: exploring a beautiful, dangerous world, learning by doing, and passing every hard-won skill down the generations. No tutorials, no map, no mercy. Slow, strange and unlike anything else.
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81% of 9,907 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 105$39.99Primitive Society Simulator
Lead a Stone Age tribe from flint tools to bronze, feeding your people while five ancient nations circle. Part colony sim, part grand strategy: build, farm, fight, trade and make rivals pay tribute. Every run plays out differently, at your own pace.
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83% of 657 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99Bronze Age - HD Edition
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.? Oh, you know, the usual - feed your people, build them shelters, defend them from raids of neighbors. And if you are lucky, sooner or later you will build a kingdom and become their king!
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77% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.80The Tribe Must Survive
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age. Build your camp, overcome disasters and uncover new areas. Manage fears and diminish internal conflicts, as your Tribe grows. Every decision matters. Will your Tribe survive?
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63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99Jurassic Clans
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans. Ensure your people thrive in this dangerous world by surviving and evolving your tribe. Search for resources to expand your village, research technologies, defend your people from predators and prepare for the upcoming apocalypse.
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46% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than The Ancients
Humanica
Guide a small band of settlers through the ages, shaping a colorful hexagonal world into a thriving village at your own pace.
92% of 234 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99
Rise of Man
Rise of Man is a pre historic strategy game with city building and survival elements.
17% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Bronze Age - HD Edition
What was it like to be a chief of a tribe in 6000 year B.C.?
77% of 371 Steam reviews are positive$0.80
The Tribe Must Survive
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.
63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Jurassic Clans
Jurassic Clans sets in a world where dinosaurs co-exist with humans.
46% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Paleon
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Prehistoric Tales
By a twist of fate, you turn out to be the chief of a small tribe of islanders invaded by neighbors.
73% of 64 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Caveman Craig
A strategy/survival game set in a prehistoric world of dinosaurs and cavemen.
86% of 101 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Evolution of Ages: Settlements
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world.
85% of 279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
Rise of Ages
Rise of Ages is a sandbox game, allowing you to explore, build, found cities, make wars and evolve technologies to reach the highest level of a…
40% of 189 Steam reviews are positive$16.99
Stone Rage
Stone Rage is a prehistoric, open-world survival game. Play as a Cro-Magnon or Neanderthal and shape-shift into beasts as you secure your place in a…
40% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Hidden gems like The Ancients
Humanica
Guide a small band of settlers through the ages, shaping a colorful hexagonal world into a thriving village at your own pace.
92% of 234 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99
Primitive Society Simulator
Guide a Stone Age tribe through farming, crafting and trade while rival nations watch your borders, all in runs that unfold differently every time.
83% of 657 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$19.99
Polylithic
Gather, craft and build a Stone Age settlement, alone or with up to 9 friends, in a bright open world that fights back.
70% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Paleon
Your time machine is broken. And it looks like you are stuck in the past. Try to create your own civilization and return home!
81% of 387 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Tribe: Primitive Builder
You are the builder of an exiled tribe on a realistic island, chopping wood, crafting axes and spears, and raising shelters, kitchens and workshops…
79% of 703 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$19.99
Soulmask
Start with bare hands in the wilds, raise a settlement of tribespeople you can step into, and push from thatch to stone across rainforest and desert.
76% of 18,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,369$29.99
Sapiens
Guide a small band of early humans from bare survival to thriving settlements across a vast, colorful prehistoric world.
79% of 2,080 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 18$24.99
The Universim
Guide a tiny civilization from caves to rockets, with tornadoes and lightning at your fingertips.
79% of 8,485 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 508$14.99
Revival: Recolonization
Set in a post-apoc version of Earth, Revival is a 4x strategy game where the world and its rules can change at key moments, creating a deep and…
69% of 338 Steam reviews are positive$19.49
As Far As The Eye
Guide a small tribe across a procedurally generated world, building and harvesting at each halt before the flood catches up.
73% of 1,643 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$24.99
Evolution of Ages: Settlements
Evolution of Ages is a game of managing resources in the ruins of our world.
85% of 279 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$8.99
The Tribe Must Survive
The Tribe Must Survive is a survival base builder strategy game set in a harsh Lovecraftian Stone Age.
63% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Newest games like The Ancients
Folk Emerging
Lead nomadic families through the Stone Age in this turn-based 4X strategy game with in-depth characters, cultures, and ecosystems.
85% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
Polylithic
Gather, craft and build a Stone Age settlement, alone or with up to 9 friends, in a bright open world that fights back.
70% of 321 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$14.99
Lugal: Bronze Age Survival Game
Survival Craft with PvE, CO-OP, Questline that lasts for several hours. Historic Bronze Age vibes.
74% of 38 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$14.99
Soulmask
Start with bare hands in the wilds, raise a settlement of tribespeople you can step into, and push from thatch to stone across rainforest and desert.
76% of 18,686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,369$29.99
Ascendant Dawn
Ascendant Dawn is a grand strategy game where you lead a nomadic tribe in a brutal bronze age world.
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Humanica
Guide a small band of settlers through the ages, shaping a colorful hexagonal world into a thriving village at your own pace.
92% of 234 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$14.99
In Next Life
An online multiplayer game of crafting, survival, civilization building, and player collaboration.
66% of 156 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6Free
Epoch Cycle
Apocalypse is Not the End, It's Your Beginning. Become the supreme leader of a civilization in an apocalyptic world.
69% of 81 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Native Hunter
Inspired by an existing indigenous tribe, where they live on an island called "North Sentinel Island".
72% of 60 Steam reviews are positive$17.99
Of Life and Land
Lead villagers through wild lands where every animal and plant is fighting for its own place.
82% of 293 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$12.49
Ancient Savo
Raise a family in the pristine woodlands of ancient Finland. Manage your homestead, craft tools and items, barter for goods, live off the land.
94% of 16 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$6.99
Wastelander
Wastelander is a turn-based strategy game where you must survive and escape from a desolate planet ravaged by powerful storms.
88% of 34 Steam reviews are positive$2.49