Item: Bronze Age
Rating: 76
Author: Dinsun

Our Site Score

76/100

Bronze Age is a surprisingly deep and historically grounded strategy game that tasks you with leading a tribe through the dawn of civilization. It’s less about combat and more about survival and resource management. You have to balance food production, population growth, and technological research while dealing with random events like droughts or tribal raids.

The game does a great job of making you feel the 'weight' of your decisions. Investing in agriculture might help you survive a winter, but it might leave you vulnerable to a neighboring tribe if you neglect your defenses. The UI is clean and informative, presenting complex data in an easy-to-understand way. It’s a slow-paced, methodical experience that rewards long-term planning over quick reflexes. A must-play for fans of historical sims or '4X' strategy games.

Reviewed on: Fri Feb 27 2026

Dinsun Review

Bronze Age is not for the faint of heart. It’s a game of numbers and careful resource management. If you make a mistake in the first ten turns, you’ll probably starve by turn fifty. I respect that. It’s a conservative, old-school strategy game that doesn't hold your hand. The UI is a bit clunky and the graphics are purely functional, but the underlying systems are robust. It feels like playing a digital board game. However, the randomness of the 'disasters' can feel a bit unfair, sometimes wiping out hours of progress through no fault of your own. It’s a niche title for people who actually want to think, which is a rarity on the App Store these days.

Overall Stats

Pros & Cons

Challenging and deep
Educational and historically grounded
Satisfying progression

Steep learning curve
Punishing RNG
Dated UI

Technical Report

Performance: Runs well on older devices. UI text can be small on phones.

Accessibility:

Audience Fit

Buy if: You enjoy challenging, turn-based strategy and management games.

Skip if: You want a casual experience or dislike losing to random events.

Similar Games:

Civilization VI
Pre-Civilization Stone Age

Reviewer Context

Reviewer: Dinsun, 40-year-old conservative hardcore gamer
Hardware: iPad Mini 6
Playtime: 20 hours
Status: Won on Normal difficulty

The Game

Available on: iPhone, iPad, iPod

704623156

$1.99 9+★4.5 202 reviews

Author : MIKHAIL VASILEV18619964037

Pubish Date : Tue Sep 24 2013

Last Update Date : Wed Nov 22 2023

Support Languages : English, Czech, French, German, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian

Genres :

Version 2.1Wed Nov 22 2023

- Updated SDKs
- Updated links on the Clarus Victoria website
Pre-civilization Stone Age and Pre-Civilization Bronze Age are two classic games published in 2013. Both of them received enthusiastic acclaim from gamers around the world. Over the past years, gamers have played them more than twenty million times, built over one hundred and sixty million buildings, resisted over four hundred million raids, and mined over eighty trillion resources. You can be one of them right now!
Choose your starting date – either 4,000,000 B.C. (Stone Age) or 6000 B.C. (Bronze Age) – and lead your people to prosperity!
Key features, highlighted by our fans:
*Exciting gameplay
Simple and easy to use resource manager enhanced with more than 30 events. The Ice Age, natural disasters, enemy raids, wars, nomads, changes in the ruling dynasty, religious leaders, and popular revolts - all will be etched into the history of your people’s ascent. And if you're looking for a challenge, you can try our new survival mode against increasingly powerful enemies.
*Detailed reconstruction of history
Researching more than 60 technologies, from mastering fire to establishing laws, will immerse you in the background of each period. You can build more than 20 historicalbuildings drawn from the architecture of the ancient world. And when you play the Stone Age campaign you will be able to track the evolution of humankind from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens.
Requires iOS 12.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Pre-civilization Stone Age and Pre-Civilization Bronze Age are two classic games published in 2013. Both of them received enthusiastic acclaim from gamers around the world. Over the past years, gamers have played them more than twenty million times, built over one hundred and sixty million buildings, resisted over four hundred million raids, and mined over eighty trillion resources. You can be one of them right now!
Choose your starting date – either 4,000,000 B.C. (Stone Age) or 6000 B.C. (Bronze Age) – and lead your people to prosperity!
Key features, highlighted by our fans:
*Exciting gameplay
Simple and easy to use resource manager enhanced with more than 30 events. The Ice Age, natural disasters, enemy raids, wars, nomads, changes in the ruling dynasty, religious leaders, and popular revolts - all will be etched into the history of your people’s ascent. And if you're looking for a challenge, you can try our new survival mode against increasingly powerful enemies.
*Detailed reconstruction of history
Researching more than 60 technologies, from mastering fire to establishing laws, will immerse you in the background of each period. You can build more than 20 historicalbuildings drawn from the architecture of the ancient world. And when you play the Stone Age campaign you will be able to track the evolution of humankind from Australopithecus to Homo sapiens.

Ratings & Reviews

4.5 out of 5 with 202 Counts

★★★★★

Age Rating 9+

Bronze Age is a thoughtfully designed strategy game that puts you in control of an early human tribe. Your goal is to guide your people from humble beginnings to a thriving civilization. Balance the allocation of your population between hunting, farming, and research. Navigate through historical events, manage cultural growth, and ensure your tribe's survival against environmental and human threats. With a focus on historical accuracy and deep management mechanics, it’s the ultimate prehistoric challenge.

Features

Deep historical resource management

Dynamic event system based on real history

Branching technology and culture trees

Multiple scenarios and difficulty levels

Tips

The Winter Prep

Always ensure you have a 'Grain Surplus' of at least 200 units by the end of the Autumn phase. If you enter Winter without food, your population will decrease by 10% every turn, which can be a game-ending blow early on.

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Gameplays

Technology Tree

Prioritize 'Pottery' and 'Irrigation' in the early game. These two technologies provide the foundation for food storage and high-yield farming, allowing you to focus your population on 'Culture' and 'Military' later on.