Primitive Society Simulator

Primitive Society Simulator combines colony management with grand-strategy competition. You lead a branch of Ancient Chinese people, starting with a small tribe where you craft tools, build houses, hunt, farm and raise livestock. From the eastern Yellow River basin to Mesopotamia, you can rule other tribes or be ruled by them.

Expand your influence

You encounter five ethnic groups in Asia: Rongdi, Baiyue, Ancient Chinese States, Aryans and Assyrians. War, cultural promotion and migration can increase your influence over them, while different tactics let you pursue expansion in different ways. You can rush early, expand culturally, trade or enslave, encourage migration, or compel other tribes to pay tribute or become your vassals. After each victory, you can restart and pursue new paths.

Tribes that submit can provide tribute, slaves, armies and resources. A technological advantage lets you acquire advanced tools and bronze for trade. You can prioritize reproduction through fertility worship, or train professional soldiers and plunder extensively.

Lead your tribe

Leaders manage groups and reduce repetitive actions. You can assign group schedules for labor, cultural development, technological research or training. Leaders gain battlefield experience and can be promoted to nobles; noble ranks unlock unique unit types, attire and room facilities.

A unit's organization represents its shared morale. When a member is attacked, the unit loses organization as well as that member taking damage. If a leader's unit reaches zero organization, the whole unit routs. Training, mood and noble rank can improve organization, while dealing organization damage offers a way to win without killing enemies directly.

Build and preserve

Specialized rooms meet the tribe's needs, including bedrooms, slave quarters, kitchens, meeting halls, granaries, execution grounds and altars. Slaves can be forced into lifelong labor or adopted into the tribe to bear children; you can also execute them to suppress rebellions or sell them.

Tribespeople gain knowledge through labor, but lose it when they die. Carving knowledge onto stone monuments preserves it, and future generations can use the monuments as learning tools.