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Cradle of Rome cover art

Cradle of Rome

Awem Studio · Next Game · 2010-02-20

Steam

Casual

Modes: Single player

Releases: Feb 27, 2007 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Nov 18, 2008 (Nintendo DS), Mar 31, 2009 (Wii)

Build the heart of the Ancient Roman Empire and become its Emperor! This legendary city was one of the most beautiful and powerful capitals to have ever existed in the ancient world! Resurrect the masterpieces of Roman architecture. The Coliseum will make a good training school for your brave gladiators.

90%
positive of 68 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (2 outlets, IGDB)
80/100
IGDB user rating (2 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)
Cradle of Rome is the first in a series of tile-matching puzzle and strategy video games developed by German studio cerasus.media and published by D3 Publisher on November 18, 2008 for the Nintendo DS handheld game console. The Wii version was released on March 31, 2009. The game has been brought to Steam since 2007.

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 47% of 19,897 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 2.7k–5.4k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 68 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at MacGameStore (2024-12-21) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320122026Week of 2012-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.74$1.992015-01-012025-01-012015-01-01 — best price $6.992015-01-22 — best price $13.492015-01-23 — best price $12.952015-01-28 — best price $13.492015-03-19 — best price $13.492015-04-01 — best price $15.952015-04-04 — best price $15.952015-04-15 — best price $15.952015-04-17 — best price $15.952015-04-20 — best price $23.742015-04-21 — best price $15.952015-04-24 — best price $15.952015-04-29 — best price $15.952015-04-30 — best price $15.952015-05-01 — best price $15.952015-05-07 — best price $15.952015-05-12 — best price $9.992015-05-18 — best price $16.492015-05-19 — best price $15.952015-06-03 — best price $15.952015-07-10 — best price $6.992016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-12-22 — best price $7.492017-01-02 — best price $9.992017-06-23 — best price $7.492017-07-05 — best price $9.992023-04-25 — best price $5.592023-05-08 — best price $6.992023-07-03 — best price $3.492023-07-18 — best price $6.992024-05-03 — best price $4.992024-12-21 — best price $1.992025-01-01 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

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Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualMatch 3

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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