Civitas

Civitas is a city-building game inspired by Renaissance bird’s-eye-view maps. You shape a procedurally generated world into a growing settlement, managing resources and choosing how to develop its plots without the pressure to survive. The game’s core mechanics are included, with further features described as planned for Early Access and beyond.

Generate your world

Continental landscapes form through plate tectonics. You choose 16 km² map tiles to build on and select a culture, which determines the world’s geographic place names and the names of its Civvies based on the culture’s primary language.

Develop your plots

Plot mechanics let you divide the landscape as you choose and assign each plot a purpose. Developing plots reveals upgrades and decorations. The game includes over 100 resources, from mud to money, which are needed for construction and Civvie happiness.

Grow your settlement

Progress from a hamlet into a town by choosing branches in a progression tree: Labor, Law, Faith, Arts and Trade. This progression covers architectural history from the early Middle Ages through the early Modern era.

Planned features

The description also outlines features planned for Early Access and beyond. Civvies are intended to move through their Boros and carry out daily tasks, with plot narratives following them as they move in, live, pass on, give birth, learn and grow through Shakespeare’s seven ages of man, not necessarily in that order. Neighbouring plots are planned to provide bonuses to production or Civvie happiness, depending on building type or plot purpose.

The plans also include creating multiple cities by generating an Atlas and building on other tiles of the world, establishing trade routes and charting the growth of a nation-state. Further cultural content is planned across different periods and regions, including feudal Japan and ancient Rome, along with more biomes and architectural styles.