Roads of Rome: New Generation is a time-management strategy game featuring resource allocation and road construction across 40 levels on iOS.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
—
Games
Sentiment
3.9
155 reviews
Nemesis
Bloody Bastards
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Players hire this app for a structured, story-driven historical campaign that serves the need for low-stakes, casual strategy progression.
For Casual gamers interested in time-management strategy games with historical or fantasy themes.
What does it look like?
Key features
Resource allocation and road construction tasks across 40 levels.
Game interface and narrative available in six languages.
How much does it cost?
Freemium model utilizing in-app purchases to monetize a free-to-play base.
Velocity
Dormant developmentopaqueShow more...
The app has reached a zombie state, as the last recorded release occurred on September 6, 2019, nearly 7 years ago. There has been no development activity, feature updates, or maintenance patches in the intervening years. The project appears to be abandoned by the developer.
Who built it?
Qumaron
11 apps tracked · Games
Farm Mania 3: Hot Vacation
Roads of Rome 1
Farm Mania 2
Jane’s Hotel 3: Hotel Mania
Jane’s Hotel 1
Island Tribe 5
Farm Mania 1
Roads of Rome New Generation 2
Island Tribe 4
Roads of Rome: 3User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads frustrated. Users appreciate core time management gameplay loop provides a satisfying challenge for long-term franchise fans and visual design and artwork quality maintain the aesthetic standard expected by series enthusiasts, but report unresponsive touch controls during high-speed tasks force players to tap repeatedly to trigger actions.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Core time management gameplay loop provides a satisfying challenge for long-term franchise fans
- Visual design and artwork quality maintain the aesthetic standard expected by series enthusiasts
- Unresponsive touch controls during high-speed tasks force players to tap repeatedly to trigger actions
68 of 68 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Frustrated overall
Read the full review analysisUnlock 2 more frustration themes and 1 user request, each backed by review evidence.
Access the full report for freeCompetition
Competitive landscape for Roads of Rome: New Generation.
How's the Games market?
The app maintains a 3.9-star rating across 155 ratings, but recent sentiment is declining due to technical regressions.
The rivals identified
By Tibith
Both apps leverage historical themes and combat-oriented mechanics to engage players, though they differ significantly in their execution of physics and scale.
- Features physics-based 2D combat mechanics that provide a more visceral, skill-based experience than target's strategy.
- Maintains a massive, highly active multiplayer arena that dwarfs this app's single-player narrative focus.
- Offers deep equipment customization, allowing for granular character progression that this app lacks.
Oh! Edo TownsContender
Simple Sandbox 2 : Middle AgesContender
Travian KingdomsContender
Last Land: Empire WarContenderUnlock the head-to-head verdict: where this rival wins, and where it loses.
Access the full report for freeThe Analyst's Read
Key takeaways for Roads of Rome: New Generation.
Where is it heading?
Casual strategy traffic is consolidating around fresh entrants, and the current maintenance-mode updates leave the app exposed to rivals with faster live-ops cadences. The PM must address stability to prevent further erosion of the user base before the next major competitor entry.
- Technical regressions in the latest update (unresponsive touch, missing tooltips) erode the daily active habit, which compounds the rating drag.
The SWOT
- Core gameplay loop provides a satisfying challenge for franchise fans
- New sequel to expand on existing mechanics
Next best moves
Rebuild touch input sensitivity because unresponsive controls make levels impossible to complete → reduce churn.
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The developer's history of forcing re-purchases is a deliberate, albeit high-churn…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
Cross-platform progress synchronization (available in Heroes of Match 3 but missing here)
Since the last report: The app's competitive outlook has declined due to technical regressions and user frustration with monetization, shifting the focus from content expansion to urgent stability remediation.
Bottom line
The core time-management loop retains long-term fans, but technical regressions and aggressive monetization damage user trust, so the PM must prioritize stability fixes before attempting further monetization.
Unlock 3 critical frictions, 1 market threat, 1 more prioritized move and the analyst’s take.
Access the full report for freeSources
- [1] App Store, source
Report last updated