CLUSTER BUILD-GAME-PLAYERS-2 · 16 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2011-11-17
Historical empire-building strategy games
This cluster comprises 13 strategy games centered on building settlements, cities, or empires across historical eras, with combat, resource management, and territorial expansion as core mechanics. Dated entries appear sporadically from October 2010 to August 2025, with small concentrations around 2017 and 2021. Among members with traction signals, Forge of Empires: Build a City, Rise of Cultures: Kingdom game, and Battle Nations are listed as leaders, all with zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 2 hand-coded · 13 unlabelled
Operator · 3 hobby · 12 commercial · 1 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 16 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01Forge of Empires: Build a City0★20 dayslivecommercialCity-building strategy game that evolves a settlement from the Stone Age to modern times through technology research and territorial expansion.
- 02PRIME_KINGDOMS0★8 days—hobbyPersistent third-person kingdom-building game where players expand a small village into cities and empires while managing NPCs and territory.
- 03Rise of Cultures: Kingdom game0★16 dayslivecommercialStrategy game where players build cities, explore historical cultures, and manage resources to rule their lands.
- 04Battle Nations0★1 molivecommercialStrategy game where players build a city, raise armies, and engage in battles to expand their empire.
- 05Mafia City: War of Underworld0★19 dayslivehand-codedcommercialStrategy game where players build a mafia empire by stealing, forming alliances, and competing in turf wars to become the city's leader.
- 06Ancient-Iran-0★1 molivehobbyHistorical strategy game where players build and manage a city across eras.
- 07Game of Khans - Horde Battle0★17 dayslivecommercialHistorical strategy game where players lead a Mongol horde to expand an empire via combat and management.
- 08Brutal Age: Horde Invasion0★27 dayslivecommercialPrehistoric strategy game in which players build cities, train troops, and compete against global players.
- 09European War 5: Empire0★3 molivecommercialHistorical strategy game where players build empires, command armies, and fight major battles across six eras of world history.
- 10War Eternal0★1 molivecommercialStrategy game in which players conquer kingdoms, choose unique civilizations, and build empires through warfare and diplomacy.
- 11Colonies at War0★21 dayslivecommercialA colonial strategy game that lets players pick a nation, build armies and navies, and conquer neighboring territories during the nineteenth century.
- 12The King Of Ocean0★5 molivecommercialMaritime trading strategy game where players explore medieval Europe and the Caribbean, manage trade, and build a seafaring empire.
- 13Grand Drug Dealer: Simulator0★3 molivecommercialStrategy simulation game in which players expand a city-based empire, talk to customers, plan supply lines, and unlock new districts.
- 14Valor™0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedcommercialStrategy game where players manage cities, form guilds, and engage in player-versus-player combat to conquer territories and rise to dominance.
- 15JSettlers0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceA remake of a classic economy-building strategy game where players construct settlements, manage resources, and battle opposing players.
- 16Medieval Strategy Game0★unknownliveai-builthobbyBrowser game where players build and manage a medieval settlement through strategic decisions.
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