Game Groups> Populous series Bullfrog's original genre-making suite of "god games", allowing the player to facilitate the growth and spread of their primitive tribe with miraculous assistance as might a benevolent god (or to thwart and restrain the movements of rival tribes as might the vengeful...
You play a god, gaming against other gods in a celestial game of conquest. To win, you must help your chosen people take over the world and wipe out the vermin who worship that other god. Each god starts out with a single human, dumped into the middle...
Populous is the original god-game, a strategy title that lets you shape the isometric isometric world and the fates of its inhabitants. Be sure to check out one of Bullfrog's earliest classics, from the mind of Peter Molyneux! Includes Populous and the Promised Lands expansion. ...
The game's interface is certainly a bit daunting at first, particularly if you don't have access to the manual, but I found that once you get used to it it all becomes fairly natural. The relatively shallow start to the game's learning curve also gives you plenty of time to get used...
[From the manual]: The great shaman has left this plane and transcended into godhood. In her wake the Dakini, Matak and Chumara tribes are in disarray - their own shaman robbed them of the opportunity of immortality. Mad with revenge, the tribes vow to smite down the remains of your tr...