Caesar III nostalgia
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“I came across Caesar III when it first came out in 1998 and spent hundreds of hours playing it.”
Steam review · 22.5 h played ↗
CaesarIA
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Mixed · 43%Mixed · 43%rdt.322015City Builder · Economy · Strategy
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 3 h ago
The verdict
A free, unfinished open-source fan remake of Caesar III that delivers nostalgia but is buggy and abandoned. Skip it if you want a polished game; buy Caesar III instead.
Great for
Caesar III fans wanting a free nostalgia trip and tolerant of bugs
Main risk
Game-breaking bugs and abandoned development block progress around the third mission
What players love
Potential and supportive developers
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 positive reviews
“it is a project. It is still in development and does not play as seamlessly as a big dev city builder.”
Steam review · 3.5 h played ↗
Free and open source
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“These guys are trying - and for free - to recreate one of the classic games albeit with its own feel.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗
Faithful city-building economy
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“You must find a perfect balance between citizens' happiness, gods' happiness, a working infrastructure, peasing Caesar and other things.”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗
What players complain about
Abandoned, no updates
Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews
“Developer has stopped updating or posting. Save your money.”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Game-breaking bugs block progress
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“wont let you send goods to rome”
Steam review · 31.6 h played ↗
Better to buy original Caesar III
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“It's an unfinished game. Install Caesar 3 instead, also on the Steam store.”
Steam review · 10.5 h played ↗
Unfinished: missing textures and text
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“there are black textures all over the place, which are things the developers have not finished texturing yet.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗
Crashes and display problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews
“full screen mode doesn't work and just display a black screen that forced me to RESTART THE COMPUTER”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗
Unfair achievement tied to unavailable DLC
Mentioned in ~1 in 38 negative reviews
“One of the achievements is literally to buy the paid DLC for a game that's not being developed anymore.”
Steam review · 0.7 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown150 MB
Minimum
OSXP
Processor1500 MHz or better
Memory256 MB RAM
Storage150 MB available space
Recommended
OSXP or later
Processor1500
Memory512 MB RAM
Storage150 MB available space
OSXP
Processor1500 MHz or better
Memory256 MB RAM
Storage150 MB available space
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