Roger Gassmann and Senatis to Release Pax Augusta in April 2025

For more than six years, solo developer Roger Gassmann has been working on Pax Augusta, a city-building game designed to be as authentic as possible. Together with German publisher Senatis, the game will be released in April 2025.

German publisher Senatis and Swiss solo developer Roger Gassmann will release the Roman city-building simulation Pax Augusta for PC on 17 April 2025. A demo is available on Steam until the beginning of April.

Pax Augusta is probably the "most authentic" (according to Gassmann and Senatis) city-building simulation set in ancient Rome, and puts players in the role of a governor building new cities along the Roman frontiers in the provinces of Gallia Belgica and Germania Magna. Players will build residential areas, marketplaces, temples, baths and more as the city grows from a small outpost to a metropolis. They will have to import and export goods, look after the needs of the citizens and deal with the changing whims of the emperors. Career mode allows players to prove themselves as a capable governor, Story mode tells the story of a Roman equites who aspires to become a senator, and Sandbox mode allows players to build without the pressure.

"I am a big fan of games like the Caesar series and Imperator: Rome, and in my search for more games of this kind, I finally decided to make one myself," said developer Roger Gassmann about the creation of Pax Augusta. "I can't wait for the game's release on 17 April and would like to thank the community for their support, including historians and architects whose feedback has been invaluable in making Pax Augusta as authentic as possible!"

Pax Augusta is being developed by Roger Gassmann, a solo developer from Switzerland. Gassmann has been fascinated by Roman history since a school trip to Augusta Raurica. As a big fan of games like Imperium Romanum, Imperator: Rome and the Caesar series, he decided to learn to code in order to develop his own Roman city-building simulator. Pax Augusta started as a hobby project in early 2019, and has grown into something much bigger with its growing community. The game's publisher is Senatis, based in Frankfurt am Main, with an office in the US as well, which specialises in traditional PC and console games. The company was founded in 2018, and its Managing Director is Wolfgang Duhr. Duhr was previously managing director and co-founder of 2tainment. Senatis will also publish G-Rebels, an action-packed combat flight sim from Reakktor Studios in Hannover, in 2025.

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