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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.
Nova Roma is a strategy, simulation and city builder game
developed by Lion Shield
and published by Hooded Horse.
Released on March 26th 2026 is available on Windows, MacOS and Steam Deck.
It has received 2,357 reviews of which 2,205 were positive and 152 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.9 out of 10. 😎
The game is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 13.49€ on Eneba.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows® 10 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2200G (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 285 (2 GB)
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 2 GB available space
MacOS
- OS: macOS 12 (Monterey) or later
- Processor: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K (quad-core) / AMD® Ryzen™ 3 2200G (quad-core)
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 1050 (2 GB) / AMD® Radeon™ R9 285 (2 GB)
- Storage: 2 GB available space
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Kingdoms and Castles excelled at what it set out to do, creating a neat, fun, and replayable colony sim. Nova Roma takes the best aspects of Kingdoms and Castles and gives them new depth. Organizing logistics is rewarding, building up population is fun. There are more aesthetic options to experiment with balancing function and form, and the added complexity is streamlined so as not to overwhelm. It's clear that Lion Shield understood what made Kingdoms and Castles so good, and they made another banger. I already love the game in its current form, I can't wait to see what it will become.
Lifelong citybuilder fan here. This is a promising addition to the genre. Some of my favorite parts are: -Flexibility in how and where you path your aqueducts - they don't take up buildable space beyond the start and end square. Designing them, esp trying to path a new one through an already densely built-up area, is an enjoyable challenge -Realistic waterflow mechanics - elevation, degree of slope, and water volume all matter. It's a fun system. Looking forward to seeing how the game grows in further development!
Great city building sim, and has a lot of potential beyond what's already here. If you're into more relaxed city building sims you'll love this game, and I recommend giving it a shot. The bones are great, there's just a couple of tweaks that are needed to the resource management in the game to make it even better. I've spent <$30 on games that are not nearly as great as this one, and I imagine as the Early Access period progresses, there'll be even more to dig into over time. The game was great till the end game when the city is pretty much built out, and that is around the time I started to hit hard in-game bottlenecks due to the game design regarding resources and transportation, but the journey to said point was amazing. Let me start with the Pros/What I really enjoyed before I get into the "could be betters": - The building system in this game is easy to use and quite forgiving, I was placing buildings in places that made sense and the game rarely fought me trying to make layouts the way I wanted to. - I really appreciate being able to click a household and see where all of the people work, good immediate feedback to where labor is and where ease-of-access is required for said labor. - I like the varied resources that are available in the game, each one has it's place and makes it worthwhile investing them into. - Working with the landscape is mostly fantastic, terrain tools are great and Dams are really cool. It only gets a little finicky when you try to edit near large boulders. - Adding details (statues, fountains/baths, entertainment) is neat and fulfilling. - Graphics are simple but effective, fits the game very well. - Managing the NUMBER of your resources is entertaining, I have too much wheat? Need to make more bread. Have too many grapes? Need more wine. Vice versa, not enough olives for all that olive oil? Time to expand farming. Fun gameplay loop! - Tech tree is well thought out and like 99% of the new tech I was excited for. Unlocking the tech seems to be a "have forty upgrade points, buy a lot" followed by "It's been 30 years and I haven't gotten a single upgrade" periods. Still, I like the progression personally. --------------------------------------------------------- Now, my biggest (current) gripes with the game (there's only a like and dislike button, I'd give this game about a ~7/10 relative to other city sims for the time being) also feedback for the dev to make the game better :) 1.) Resources - The bottlenecking with Stone being a resource is massive. There either needs to be double the Stone deposits around the map, or the stone cost for most late game buildings needs to be halved. I get that you don't want to give the player unlimited resources, but by the time I was near the end of the first island, I was buying the maximum stone possible from every merchant just to be able to keep up with the demand. 2.) Resource Storage - Storage spaces need to be way way way more larger internally. With resources later game nearing 1k per resource stack, there is no reason why Granaries, Warehouses, and Stockpiles can only stack x/40 per stack with 12-16 spaces within. There were LARGE fields of the three main storage containers within my island, even then I was constantly losing crops to exposure and materials just littered throughout the roads at all times. 3.) Resource Transportation - Which leads to me to my next issue which is related to the one above, there NEEDS to be a better way of getting resources around the map. I understand that there is the Cart that can move items between stockpiles, but to have to do it manually for each one when there are SO MANY is legit a full time job. I didn't even bother because of the time sink it was, and by the end of my first playthrough, majority of my industry was constantly "in need of x resource" because the main storage for said resource was halfway on the other side of the island where the mining/resource gathering station was. (This is also another symptom of there being like 5 stone quarries on the map, and most of them are near each other). 4.) Masonry/Building degradation - This is yet another result due to the symptoms above, but towards the end of my playthrough my buildings were constantly in shambles and in need of repair. Since I needed as many resource storages that I did, no matter how many masons that I had buildings were all but guaranteed to fall to rubble eventually. I got to the point where I found it easier to actually let the building fall to pieces and rebuild it rather than fight it. The masons needing to grab the resources (which does make sense) to repair the items is the cause of the issue I think, the issue is that getting the resources and getting to the building just takes them an astronomical amount of time (once again, because there are basically 1-2 locations in the entire map to get stone/marble), and they just can't keep up. Other more minor comments that don't warrant a glaring issue IMO: - Maintaining an army is nowhere remotely needed, and is honestly a headache to if you do. Guard towers are all you need, and even if you don't, the invaders just burn a few buildings and leave. This mechanic is just kinda... pointless? Likewise, if it was more punishing I'd actively hate it, so IDK what to do about this - Bridges are janky, they HAVE to be over water which kinda sucks. There are moments where there are rocks/cliffs that would really benefit from being able to build a bridge over to the other side, would be a very welcome addition. - Selling items to merchants is tedious and doesn't really benefit all that much. Let us sell to them directly from our storage and not require us to put the items into the dock. - Baths shouldn't require an Aqueduct into them for usage. Just let us connect them to the water tower (which is typically where I placed them anyways) and use the water tower as the source. Having to double connect every aqueduct to a water tower/bath is tedious. - Upgrading roads should just be a blanket cover and replace, delete and rebuild on existing roads is tedious and not worth it. - I've seen some other comments regarding it, but Tools just... don't exist. They're made and immediately used by everyone and everything, and there's no order of priority to it. My butchers just straight up missed out on getting any cause they were last in line. - The Gods... exist? Once I got to Grand Temples and built one for each of the Gods they just left me alone. Occasionally they'd want me to build them another temple which is like, fine whatever but I just didn't interact with this gameplay element at all. I don't want them to be annoying, but making them allies should benefit me way more than it is currently (the only one I'd use is Jupiter to get rid of flooding). --------------------------------------------- Overall the game is really fun, and has a lot to offer, and only falls off once you get to the late game. I'm probably going to wait for an update before I start another run, but I'm very excited to see how this game progresses and I definitely recommend giving it a shot if you're into city builders.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Nova Roma is currently priced at 29.99€ on Steam.
No, Nova Roma is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 29.99€ on Steam.
Yes, Nova Roma received 2,205 positive votes out of a total of 2,357 achieving a rating of 8.93.
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Nova Roma was developed by Lion Shield and published by Hooded Horse.
Yes, Nova Roma is playable and fully supported on Windows.
Yes, Nova Roma is playable and fully supported on MacOS.
No, Nova Roma is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Nova Roma is playable on Steam Deck, though it might require a few minor tweaks. Make sure to check the Steam store page and community feedback on ProtonDB for exact compatibility details.
This information about Nova Roma is not available yet.
No, Nova Roma does not support VR.
Nova Roma is a single-player game.
No, Nova Roma does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Nova Roma does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Nova Roma does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Nova Roma is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Nova Roma.
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Developer
Lion Shield
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Hooded Horse
Release
26 Mar 2026
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