Elysia: City Builder

A living Greek city builder

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Build roads that matter. Grain, water, goods, and divine favour all travel through your painted island city on foot. Nothing here moves by magic. Build a living Greek island city where every necessity travels on foot. Lay roads, raise homes, feed neighbourhoods, and watch named walkers carry water, grain, pottery, and more from one link of your supply chain to the next. Every street layout has consequences. A broken route stops a real delivery. A labour shortage leaves a workshop quiet. Clear city notices show what failed, why it failed, and what you can change. As your settlement grows from tents into a dense civic and sacred centre, the gods turn city planning into myth. Earn favour through sanctuaries and festivals, call heroes, trade across the Aegean, and defend the city when legendary beasts arrive. Play the complete Bay of Elysia founding mission free, with no timer or interruption. After victory, keep building that city for as long as you like. The one-time unlock opens The Long Summer, a larger challenge in your existing city, and the voyage on to three more islands with six more episodes: the vine terraces of Naxos, the floods of Lerna and the two shores of the Strait. Your founding city is preserved. Random islands, free for everyone, offer open-ended building with your choice of size and goal. Elysia is designed for touch and for focused sessions, while preserving the interlocking systems of a complete strategy game. - Walker-driven roads and supply chains - Evolving housing and visible production needs - A campaign across four islands: Elysia, Naxos, Lerna and the Strait - Greek gods, heroes, festivals, trade, and mythic threats - A painted miniature island made for landscape play - English, German and Turkish text; English and German voices - Offline single-player play with local saves and manual city export One purchase unlocks the full base game. There are no ads, energy meters, consumable purchases, resource packs, daily chores, or paid shortcuts.

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Elysia 2.0: new controls - One bar along the bottom of the screen holds what you use most: population, drachmae, Build, Objectives, World, game speed, the map and Settings. - Build: the categories scroll along that bar. While you place a building, Rotate, Cancel and Confirm sit in the same bar, and a marble box in the bottom-right corner shows the building, its cost and what to do next. - Confirm takes you back to the Build menu, ready for the next building. - New laurel artwork for the welcome guide and the loading screen, where a gold bar fills as your island rises. - City, Appeal, Water and Favour sit together at the top, and the Appeal and Water legends open right beside them. - Redrawn panels for building details, objectives, settings and the gods. The World is now a full-screen view. - Fixes crashes when placing and rotating buildings. Your cities from 1.2 load as they are.

The developer, Birol Aksu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • Contact Info
    • User Content
    • Identifiers
    • Diagnostics
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    • Purchases
    • Identifiers
    • Usage Data

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Seller
Birol Aksu
Size
366.9 MB
Category
Strategy
Compatibility
Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
Languages
English and 2 more
  • English, German, Turkish
Age Rating
13+
  • 13+
  • Infrequent
    Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
    Horror/Fear Themes
    Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
    Guns or Other Weapons
In-App Purchases
Yes
Copyright
© 2026 Birol Aksu