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Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Return of Rome
Strategy 16 May 2023
Return to Rome is an expansion to an RTS, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition. The DLC introduces multiple new ancient civilizations, three new campaigns and a new, longer, slower-paced game mode.
Total War Saga: Troy - Mythos
Strategy 02 September 2021
The first big DLC for A Total War Saga: Troy, the second part of the Total War spin-off series. Mythos introduces new campaign types, units and modifies some of the core gameplay elements.
Titan Quest: Eternal Embers
RPG 03 December 2021
Titan Quest: Eternal Embers is the fourth expansion pack for the popular hack-and-slash RPG. The DLC offers a new campaign and additional enemy and item types. In addition, it allows players to turn their character into an alchemist.
PowerSlave Exhumed
Action 10 February 2022
Remastered version of the FPS titled PowerSlave, known in Europe as Exhumed. In Powerslave Exhumed we play as a soldier who goes to Egypt to face insectoid invaders trying to take over the world.
The Way of Wrath
RPG TBA (early access since 2024)
The Way of Wrath is a tactical RPG in which you, as the leader of a defeated tribe, prepare for a desperate defense against overwhelming enemy forces in a cold, unfriendly valley.
Asterix & Obelix: Heroes
Strategy 05 October 2023
A cross between a strategy game, card game and board game. Asterix & Obelix: Heroes stars the titular duo, searching for a mysterious treasure that could let Caesar conquer all of Gaul if he gets his hands on it.
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy
Action 10 November 2003
Sphinx and the Cursed Mummy is an action adventure game that takes us to the mythical version of ancient Egypt. During the game, we play as two eponymous characters who try to thwart the plans of the evil god Seth. To this end, they travel through different levels and face problems each in their own way; while Sphinx is an able fighter, Mummy prefers stealth. The game is also enriched by numerous environmental riddles.
Immortal Redneck
Action 25 April 2017
Hybrid FPS and roguelike, in which we play the title peasant. In unexplained circumstances, the protagonist ends up in ancient Egypt - as a living mummy he goes deep into the pyramids, where he hopes to find answers to the questions that bother him. This, of course, means having to face up to the enemy's taboons.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms
Strategy 31 December 1985
Turn-based strategy, which takes place in China during the Han Dynasty. The player's task is to manage his state and to unite the other regions under his rule.
Hegemony Rome: The Rise of Caesar
Strategy 15 May 2014
Continuation of the RTS strategy Hegemony: Philip of Macedon, created in 2010 by the Canadian studio Longbow Digital Arts. The game once again takes us to the ancient times, focusing this time on the famous conquests of Julius Caesar. The story campaign is divided into four chapters, which action takes place in the years 58-52 BC and focuses on the war between Rome and Gaul, waged on the area stretching from the coast of Britain to the Mediterranean Sea.
Spartacus Legends
Action 25 June 2013
Action game based on the popular TV series Starz, known in Poland for its HBO channel. It is a kind of simulator of gladiators' career, from training and initial battles in secondary arenas to spectacular clashes worthy of the Roman Coliseum. The title is distinguished by an extensive combat system and a large number of player configuration options.
Qvadriga
Simulation 04 March 2014
Two-dimensional chariot racing simulator. The production is characterized by a unique expansion, typical of Slitherine studio. The player's tasks include training the riders and increasing their abilities, improving chariots, taking care of finances, as well as indirect participation in races held in historic arenas.
Oriental Empires
Strategy 14 September 2017
A turn-based 4X strategy game set in ancient China and developed by Ntronium Games. Oriental Empires focuses on faithfully recreating historical events concerning the Chinese empire - the game encompasses a period of three thousand years between 1500 B.C and 1500 A.D. The player becomes a leader of a small tribe and their goal is to build up a powerful empire. To do so, they have to cultivate land, gather resources, build new towns, as well as recruit and train the army.
Hegemony III: Clash of the Ancients
Strategy 25 August 2015
The third installment in the strategy game series set in antiquity, started in 2010 by Longbow Digital Arts. The action takes place in the distant past and to the rise of Rome, when armies of the Greeks, Gauls, Romans, and Etruscans fought fierce battles for control of the Apennine Peninsula. While playing, we can either experience the entire path of Rome to hegemony in the ancient world as it happened or try to change history by leading one of the remaining nations.
Total War: Rome II - Wrath of Sparta
Strategy 16 December 2014
The third DLC add-on for Total War: Rome II – another installment of the Total War series, released in 2013. The action of the expansion takes us to the oldest historical period ever recreated in Total War series, as we begin our struggle in 423 B.C., in the initial years of the Second Peloponnesian War, a conflict between coalitions led by Athens and Sparta. Total War: Rome II – Wrath of Sparta contains a completely new story campaign, taking place in ancient Greece and Asia Minor.
Alea Jacta Est: The Cantabrian Wars
Strategy 30 May 2013
The Cantabrian Wars is a small extension to the turn-based Alea Jacta Est strategy embedded in ancient climates. The patch enriches the game with a scenario with the title Cantabrian war, allowing you to take part in the conquest of Spain led by Octavius Augustus or to defend the areas of Asturias and Cantabria.
Total War: Rome II - Hannibal at the Gates
Strategy 27 March 2014
The second DLC for 2013's Total War: Rome II (Creative Assembly). The second Punic war is the general theme of the expansion; the conflict between Rome and Carthage took place in the third century BC. Importantly, the war was also a conflict of two outstanding commanders - Scipio Africanus and Hannibal, a sworn enemy of Rome. The expansion brings a new campaign which is set in the western part of the mediterranean basin, in the years 218-202 BC (each year lasts 12 turns).
Circus Maximus: Chariot Wars
Racing 24 February 2002
Circus Maximus: Chariot Wars studio Kodiak Interactive is an action game, combining elements of racing and fighting. The creators of the title were inspired, among others, by the film Ben-Hur and Gladiator. The plot takes us to ancient Rome, in the times of the great Olympics. We play the role of a competitor taking part in chariot races.
Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission Las Vegum
Arcade 29 September 2005
Asterix & Obelix XXL 2: Mission Las Vegum is a three-dimensional platformer full of arcade elements, additionally sprinkled with a large dose of abstract humour. The producer of this position is Etranges Libellules studio, also responsible for the first part. Publisher - traditionally Atari.
Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny
Adventure 15 June 2007
Cleopatra: A Queen's Destiny is a historical adventure game created by Kheops Studio, known for such productions as Safecracker or The Secrets of Da Vinci: Prohibited manuscript of a developer specializing in games of this genre. The production was published by the French company Nobilis.
Ankh: Battle of the Gods
Adventure 15 November 2007
Battle of the Gods is the third installment of the Ankh series. As in the case of previous titles from this cycle, the action is played in ancient Egypt. We get to know the future of Assil and Thara.
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII
Strategy 01 June 2002
Romance of the Three Kingdoms VII is the next installment of a popular series of strategy games, the first part of which appeared on home computers in 1985 (under the Japanese title Sangokushi). This is one of the most ambitious series of turn-based console strategies.
Europa Universalis: Rome
Strategy 15 April 2008
A spin-off of the popular Europa Universalis series, based on the engine and mechanics from the third installment, released in 2007. In contrast to every previous installment, Europa Universalis: Rome takes us to Antiquity, concentrating on the Roman Empire from 280 B.C. to 27 B.C. – from the First Punic War up to the birth of the grand Roman Empire. When it comes to mechanics, the gameplay isn’t at all different from what we could've seen in the other major entries of the series.
Imperium Romanum: Wilds of Germania
Strategy 18 June 2008
Wilds of Germania is the second extension of the real time strategy, the Roman Empire, by the Bulgarian Haemimont Games studio. However, the title discussed here is not the only production of these artists touching on the subject of the Roman Empire - Glory of the Roman Empire was published in 2006.