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Start here01A settlement that begins as a handful of Stone Age huts and researches its way through the ages towards the far future. Houses, workshops, goods buildings and decorations all have a job, Great Buildings demand serious planning, and hex-grid battles add a tactical layer. The deepest builder on our shelf, and the one with the longest road.
Most beautiful02Choose elves or humans and grow a city where nearly every building can be upgraded and changes its look as it levels. More than two hundred technologies to research, quests across a world map and relics that boost production. The calmest, prettiest builder we tested, with combat kept to the margins.
Best campaign03A city builder that moves through great historic cultures such as Classic Greece, Egypt, the Chinese Empire and the Roman Empire. Research new technologies, trade goods between cultures, form alliances with other players and fight strategic PvE battles against figures like King Minos, Leonidas and Hannibal. Bright, brisk and generous with spectacle.
Most peaceful04A medieval village built on fields, animals and workshops. Grow wheat and mill it into flour for bread, press grapes into wine, keep heritage breeds like the Mangalitsa pig, then choose which customers get your wares. Guilds, special regions and tower-building competitions add variety. No sieges, no armies, just a busy village.
Most personal05Guide a Stone Age tribe as a benevolent deity. Gather berries and mushrooms, hunt reindeer and wild boar, teach your Stonies to make fire, carving stones, spears and fishing rods, then help them build huts and religious sites. Families grow, children grow up, and the camp slowly widens as knowledge spreads.
Puzzle twist06A management game where you build up a production empire and break it up with hidden-object riddle pictures. Search scenes, discover more hidden objects as you go, and team up with other players in families. Runs in the browser through WebGL with no download. The odd one out on our shelf, in a good way.
