A city builder for iPhone & iPad

Build a city.
Outlast the ages.

Guide one settlement from a Stone Age campfire to a space elevator. Lay roads, settle families, and watch every home grow taller as you meet its needs, across 8 ages of history.

Coming soon to the App StoreFree · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26 Explore the ages
  • No ads
  • No in-app purchases
  • Fully offline
An Industrial Age island: brick terraces, factories with tall chimneys and grey roads covering the whole island.

Ten thousand years, one island

Eight ages to live through

Every age changes the look of your whole city and unlocks new buildings, new needs and a wonder to raise.

  1. Stone Age A fire, a few huts, and the whole world ahead. Stone Circle
  2. Bronze Age Metal, markets, and the first fields of grain. Great Ziggurat
  3. Classical Age Columns, philosophers, and running water. Colossus
  4. Medieval Age Timber towns gathered around stone towers. Cathedral
  5. Renaissance Domes, banks, and the printed page. Grand Dome
  6. Industrial Age Steam, brick, and the roar of the machine. Iron Tower
  7. Modern Age Glass towers and lights that never sleep. Sky Spire
  8. The Beyond A city that reaches for the stars. Space Elevator
  • A Stone Age island: a small camp of thatched huts and dirt paths around the Town Center, in a clearing of the forest. Stone Age
  • A Bronze Age island: a growing grid of dirt roads with mud-brick homes, fields and a market, ringed by forest. Bronze Age
  • A Classical Age island: red-tiled villas, amphitheaters and gardens along stone roads, with forest beyond. Classical Age
  • A Medieval island: timber townhouses and red-roofed homes around stone streets, with the Colossus standing tall. Medieval Age
  • A Renaissance island: a dense city of red-roofed palazzos, plazas and amphitheaters across most of the island. Renaissance
  • An Industrial Age island: brick terraces, factories with tall chimneys and grey roads covering the whole island. Industrial Age
  • A Modern Age island: office towers, grey avenues and old quarters side by side, from coast to coast. Modern Age
  • An island of The Beyond: glowing white streets, glass habitats and a soaring spire among the older quarters. The Beyond
The same island, age by age. Rendered by the game itself.

How houses grow

Meet a need, rise a level

A house on a road starts at level 1. It climbs one level for every service that reaches it, in order, up to level 11. Tap any home in the game to see exactly what it is missing.

  1. Level 1 A road Connected to the Town Center
  2. Level 2 Water Well or Aqueduct Fountain or Water Tower
  3. Level 3 Faith Shrine or Temple
  4. Level 4 Market Market
  5. Level 5 Health Bathhouse or Hospital
  6. Level 6 Culture Amphitheater or Stadium
  7. Level 7 Safety Watch House
  8. Level 8 Education School
  9. Level 9 Power Power Station or Solar Farm or Fusion Reactor
  10. Level 10 Transit Metro Station
  11. Level 11 Wellbeing Biodome
The grandest home of each age, from a Stone Age hut (level 3) to a habitat of The Beyond (level 11).

Every age ends with a wonder

8 wonders, one story

Grow your people, gather the stone, gold and knowledge, and raise the wonder that carries your city into the next age.

  1. The Stone Circle, wonder of the Stone Age

    Stone Age

    Stone Circle

    Great standing stones aligned with the solstice sun. Raising them carries your people into the Bronze Age.

    Needs 45 people

  2. The Great Ziggurat, wonder of the Bronze Age

    Bronze Age

    Great Ziggurat

    A mountain of mud brick reaching for the gods. Completing it opens the Classical Age.

    Needs 120 people

  3. The Colossus, wonder of the Classical Age

    Classical Age

    Colossus

    A bronze giant raised over the harbour. Its completion brings the Medieval Age.

    Needs 260 people

  4. The Cathedral, wonder of the Medieval Age

    Medieval Age

    Cathedral

    Generations of masons raise a spire of stone and glass. It heralds the Renaissance.

    Needs 450 people

  5. The Grand Dome, wonder of the Renaissance

    Renaissance

    Grand Dome

    An engineering marvel no one thought possible. Under it, the Industrial Age is born.

    Needs 700 people

  6. The Iron Tower, wonder of the Industrial Age

    Industrial Age

    Iron Tower

    A lattice of riveted iron for the world's fair. It ushers in the Modern Age.

    Needs 900 people

  7. The Sky Spire, wonder of the Modern Age

    Modern Age

    Sky Spire

    The tallest tower ever built. From its top, the sky no longer looks so far away.

    Needs 1,000 people

  8. The Space Elevator, wonder of the The Beyond

    The Beyond

    Space Elevator

    A ribbon to orbit. Your city's story, from campfire to the stars, is complete.

    Needs 1,100 people

From the game

  • Title screen: Build a city. Outlast the ages. The New City and Settings buttons float over a grown island.
  • From campfire to cathedral: a Medieval town, with the goal card Consecrate the Cathedral.
  • Homes grow as you meet their needs: inspecting a Renaissance palazzo lists the needs it already has.
  • A living city, day and night: an Industrial city at night, its windows lit.
  • Every age brings new stories: the A Duel of Wits event invites you to accept the challenge.
  • Eight ages. Eight wonders. The Renaissance dawns and unlocks the School, Bank, University and Plaza Fountain.
  • All the way to the stars: a city of The Beyond with biodomes and the space elevator.

A world with stories

Caravans, festivals, and the odd sea monster

44 events drift through your city's history. Traders ask to camp by your market, scholars have flashes of insight, and a very polite lizard may surface in the bay. Fires, fevers and blackouts strike wherever a watch, a bathhouse or power doesn't reach. Every disaster is recoverable: ruins can be repaired.

See every event

  • A Wandering Stranger
  • The Great Hunt
  • Trade Caravan
  • A Duel of Wits
  • Harvest Festival
  • A Flash of Insight
  • Bumper Harvest
  • A Glittering Vein
  • The Road Connects
  • Fire!
  • Fever in the Streets
  • Rising Waters
  • Thunderstorm

Genuinely free

Just you, an island, and history

Erapolis is free to play from the first campfire to the last wonder. There is nothing to buy and nothing watching you.

  • No ads

    Not a banner, not a video, not ever.

  • No in-app purchases

    No timers, no energy, no premium currency.

  • No accounts

    Open the app and build. There is nothing to sign up for.

  • No tracking

    The game collects no data at all. Read the privacy policy.

  • Fully offline

    Play on a plane, in a tunnel, anywhere.

  • Saves stay on your device

    Your cities live on your iPhone or iPad, and nowhere else.

Made for iPhone and iPad

Small island, lots of craft

  • A living 3D island

    Tilt, rotate and pinch a diorama that moves through a gentle day and night.

  • Liquid Glass

    Controls that feel at home on iOS 26, in light and dark appearance.

  • Generated music

    A soundtrack and soundscape that change with every age.

  • Accessible

    VoiceOver labels, Dynamic Type, Reduce Motion and haptics throughout.

Your campfire is waiting

Free on iPhone and iPad. No ads, no purchases, no accounts.

Coming soon to the App StoreFree · iPhone & iPad · iOS 26