"Computer Gaming World" in June 1993 recommended "Caesar" to "SimCity" fans who "wished for more buttons to push, knobs to adjust and wires to reroute". The magazine concluded that ""Caesar" provides that rare quality in strategy gaming — an experience whose rewards prove equal to its challenges ... provides the serious player with a real lion's feast". A survey of pre 20th-century strategy games in the issue gave the game three-plus stars out of five, calling it "More of a game than a simulation, but it can be fun".