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Stratagem Interactive · Published by Stratagem Interactive
Last updated 27 Sept 2026
Rebuild a shattered settlement from the devastation of the Black Plague into a flourishing Renaissance metropolis. Manage production, construct iconic landmarks, and recruit powerful masters as you play through historically inspired narrative missions.
Guide Florence through the Black Plague to become a Renaissance hub by managing production and recruiting influential masters in this strategic narrative experience from Stratagem Interactive.
About this game
Experience the Renaissance in HistoriCity: Florence, a city builder that invites you to develop a bustling Tuscan metropolis in the aftermath of the Black Plague.
Place housing, commerce, religion, and civic structures to attract new citizens and grow your workforce. Upgrade production buildings to fulfill your citizens' demands, and watch their housing merge and improve. Manage resources and finances to construct iconic landmarks and recruit renowned masters with powerful abilities.
Advance through a series of historically inspired narrative missions and grow your city from a humble settlement into a thriving center of Renaissance life.
Shape Your Narrative
Define the composition of your growing metropolis by establishing residential, commercial, religious, and mixed-use districts. Progress through a full set of historical missions that allow you to experience the moral purge of the Bonfire of the Vanities, the failed assassination of the Pazzi Conspiracy, and the civic upheaval leading to the exile of the Medici.
Weave Your Economy
Design production networks and distribute goods efficiently. Hire and fire individual workers as you connect farms, workshops, and urban industries into interdependent supply chains that respond to the evolving needs of your growing population. Establish trade relationships, manage taxes and wages, and balance spending to expand and grow.
Evolve Your Housing
Improve residences automatically by meeting inhabitants' ever-expanding needs. Simple houses become larger and more elaborate, while prosperous neighborhoods organically grow denser as improved homes merge into larger apartments. Over time, distinct districts emerge, from bustling city centres to quieter, more spacious rural outskirts.
Influence Your Society
Engage with a fully simulated Renaissance population going about their daily routines. Staff brothels and taverns for heads' of household entertainment, place Podestà offices in high-crime areas to catch and punish citizens who turn to a life of crime, and upgrade your churches to host elaborate Easter services for the entire community every spring.
Indulge Your Ears
Enjoy a full soundtrack of period-accurate music from renowned Italian composers such as da Milano, Dalza, and Capirola, expertly performed by internationally acclaimed lute virtuoso Elizabeth Pallett. Vibe out to twenty-three tracks of Pallett's expressive playing that bring the atmosphere of Renaissance Florence to life.
Key Features
Complete historical narrative campaign
1:1 simulation of all workers and resources
Fully upgradeable production buildings and auto-evolving housing
Innovative per-employer 'job wheel' worker assignment
Town decorations, including authentic heraldic banners
Iconic wonder buildings (eg Florence Cathedral, San Marco, Santa Croce)
Famous masters with unique powers (eg Michelangelo, Brunelleschi, Galileo)
Survival challenges (eg drought, famine)
Data views (eg charts, heatmaps) to aide in decision making
Relaxing period-accurate soundtrack performed by Elizabeth Pallett
Cats
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS *: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1 (64-bit)
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.0GHz or AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+, 2.5GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 256mb or ATI Radeon HD 5670 256mb or Intel HD Graphics 4600
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
*languages with full audio support
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Patch Notes (Alpha 3.0.7.5)
Featuresadded tooltips to all elements in the emporium trade UIproduction building descriptions include the category of produced resources (basic food / luxury food / fine good)Tuningcancelling an active trade deal no longer counts as a trade failure Fixesadvanced decorations do not unlock even after constructing required buildingsafter changing screen resolution, edge panning boundaries become inaccurate until game is restarteddecorations do not cast shadowsupgrading a structure throws an error when upgraded structure cannot hold all existing resource typesupgrading a structure sometimes throws an error regarding pickup reservationsconstable state machine sometimes throws error when quitting gamehighlighting decorations sometimes logs debug warningRead full article on Community Announcements (Stratagem Interactive)AnnouncementsOfficial
Alpha 3.0 - Crime & Punishment is live!
Hi everyone! The new Alpha 3.0 version of HistoriCity: Florence is now available to play via demo!This is our biggest ever update by a very large margin, as it contains the truly massive amount of new features and changes we've been hard at work on since the last update nearly fifteen months ago.We know it’s taken longer than expected, so first we want to thank you for waiting so patiently and for continuing to believe in this game. The love and attention we get from the community are huge for our motivation and morale, so thank you honestly and sincerely for helping us get this far!Without further ado, here are the biggest/most important user-facing changes contained in the new update, which we are calling ‘Crime and Punishment’: 10 new resources:onionscabbagegarlicleatherclaymilkcheesegoldjewelrypottery 11 new structures:cabbage patchonion bedgarlic bedvegetable cellarcobblerpodesta’s officeclay pitcreamerygoldsmithpotters’ workshopmedici villa 19 new worker outfits:vegetable cellarer (male & female)cobbler (male & female)clay digger (male & female)cheesemaker (male & female)goldsmith (male & female)potter (male & female)constable (male)plus six new outfits for Easter service (three male, three female) 27 new building upgrades:emporium (2)butcher (2)tax collector (2)potters’ workshop (2)clay pit (2)cobbler (2)builder hut (1)weaver (2)creamery (2)tavern (2)artists’ workshop (2)market (2)vegetable cellar (2)podesta’s office (2) 56 pairs of model variants (active/inactive):barn (3)granary (1)emporium (3)mine (3)tailor (3)tax collector (3)woodcutter (3)brothel (1)butcher shop (3)clay pit (3)builder hut (3)cobbler’s shop (3)creamery (3)potters’ workshop (3)tavern (3)weaver (3)artists’ workshop (3)market (3)vegetable cellar (3)podesta’s office (3) Core mechanic: CrimeAs your city grows, crime becomes a concern which impacts immigration. Brothels and taverns increase the chance of crime nearby, while churches reduce it. If crime gets too high, your citizens may decide to...Read full article on Community Announcements (Stratagem Interactive)Community & EventsOfficial
City Builder Fest Demo Released!
Features: BROTHELS and TAVERNS introduce our new Entertainment mechanic with a new mission - use these structures to satisfy Heads of Households' new need for Entertainment as a housing upgrade requirement, and keep the Tavern stocked with Wine and Mutton to satisfy visitors' existing hunger and thirst needs as well. MORE HOUSING, QUICKER - a new house and two new apartments extend our housing upgrade chain to nine levels, with tuned upgrade requirements so each level only requires one or two new things BUTCHER SHOP - assign Butchers to turn Mutton into Chops as a luxury food, now required for Easter Service in larger settlements Boosted early game immigration rates to improve opening pace Color-coded residents' needs text based on current satisfaction level (green/yellow/red) to make it much easier to tell what you still need to achieve the next level of housing More granular city grading (X+/X- grades) and a wider range of mapped values makes it easier to track changes in grades Reduced derelict houses' undesirability radius so initial housing upgrades can occur without first having to clean up basically the entire derelict town Removed 20-tile radius limit on pegfolk searching for goods, they now search the entire map Tuned Easter Service grading for fairness, placing more emphasis on the most recent years Tuned Market/Churches/Santa Maria max workers, Market max resources Refreshed per-profession job wheel colors for better differentiation New dynamic SFX for assign/release worker UI Female immigrants use different 3D model Hover hints on all resource icons, regardless of where they appear in the UI Bugs Fixed: Artists wouldn't build statues until their workshop was completely full of supplies Statues installed in plazas were not rendered after a game was saved and loaded Pausing then unpausing while in a faster game speed reset the game speed back to 1x Loading a saved game would trigger an extra immigrant spawn event Plazas' and churches' desirability ranges w...Read full article on Community Announcements (Stratagem Interactive)Community & EventsOfficial
Next Fest Gameplay Livestream
In which a HistoriCity: Florence developer livestreams gameplay during Next Fest.Read full article on Community Announcements (Stratagem Interactive)Community & EventsOfficial
Next Fest Gameplay Livestream
In which a HistoriCity: Florence developer livestreams gameplay during Next Fest.Read full article on Community Announcements (Stratagem Interactive)
