I’ve been playing
Pharaoh (1999) for the last few weeks.
Played it as a kid but was too stupid and lacked the necessary attention span to really get into the game. My housing blocks constantly reverted back to slums no matter how many bazaars or whatever other necessary municipal building I built. Or Buildings burned down or collapsed because the fire brigade or the architects always came too late to prevent this shit
Now I know how to use road blocks to control movements of my citizens and suddenly I got stable apartment blocks and no blazes devastating half of my city, I also figured out a slew of other things that makes life easier
Got to admit though that the game doesn’t really explain a lot of these things adequately in the tutorials. Had to look it up online instead.
Anyway, game is a lot of fun, though it’s also a massive time eater, particularly when you got to build monuments. And fighting is some fiddly shit. Don’t know how many of my soldiers drowned because they just wouldn’t get out of the way when the Nile’s flooding
Not sure I’m gonna finish all the missions, because I also bought
Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (the last 2D city builder from Impressions Games, based in Ancient China). And then there’s a game called
Lethis, a 2D Caesar-type city builder based in a fantasy steampunk world, that’s been released a few years ago. When there’s a sale for it on Steam or GOG, I’m gonna try that one out too.
