Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jun 12, 2014

  Great classic city building game! Experience dozens of missions, buildings and other geat stuff in the Roman era! If you have Windows 7 or higher, it can be a little tricky to start it up sometimes. 8/10
• gamedeal user

  Jun 23, 2014

  I've played this game a LOT before steam existed but now that its on steam I bought it and haven't played it much the steam version is definitly more child friendly with a "kid" difficulty! I LOVE this game so I have a slight bias... If you love city builder games this is definitly a game you should look into.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 27, 2014

  This is in my top 10 games of all time. It's rediculously addicting, blisfully simple, and occasionaly the most frustration found in a video game since double master hand in SSBM. If you like city builders, and graphics from the early 2000's, look no further.
• gamedeal user

  Mar 20, 2022

  Countless hours of fun on the retail box version, if you too have no internet with abusive parents on a 90s computer at an impressionable age.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 13, 2022

  Amazing game, just great at scratching that little nostalgia itch. The graphics haven't aged too well, but the gameplay mechanics are superb and the game has a lot of soul, with challenging and fun missions and enough personalization options to make each city look and feel distinct. Really a great little city builder. It's just a shame that this version has a recurring BUG that totally ruins your cities sometimes for no discernible reasons. Sometimes, your workers simply refuse to go to work, despite having a house, workplace, work schedule, fulfilled needs... they simply don't go to work. Happens with ressource producing buildings, such as woodcutters or tunic makers, happens with water carriers or public services buildings, so it's not linked to storage issues in the city. And it seems to mostly happen in maps with mulitple missions during the campaign. Probably a bug of the Steam version or linked to the age of the game. It is a damn shame that a game still sold on Steam has a bug that problematic. Especially since there are no real solutions. You can try deleting and rebuilding the workplace, building it somewhere else (which costs money and thus can kill a city on hard difficulty), reinstalling the game, restarting, and so on, but nothing seems to work consistently. Sometimes the bug just happens, sometimes it leaves you alone. For this reason, I do not recommend buying it as is. This stupid bug is just unacceptable in a game over 20 years old and still sold on Steam. Developers, get your act together and solve this before trying to sell it to more people. TLDR : this version has a game-breaking bug, don't buy unless it gets fixed.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 16, 2022

  I can be almost certain that no one reading this came here on accident and you and everyone else had this game at some point while you were young and want nostalgia, and you will get nostalgia from this game.
• Leanansidhe

  Jan 22, 2023

  After like 10+ years they still haven't fixed a glitch that essentially breaks the game. Workers remain idle at home despite having the requirements to produce tunics. For a resource collection game this is literally game breaking. You cannot complete entry level campaign missions because workers do not perform their tasks.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 11, 2015

  I got this game because it reminded me of Pharaoh and Master of Olympus:Zeus, which I spent plenty of hours on when I was younger. I wasn't disappointed, I enjoyed building my cities which could grow quite quickly once you have managed to start making good money. I found some difficulty when I first realised that when the houses evolved they needed to be rehomed and I had to do a lot of remapping of my city to fit in my estates. My own fault for not checking the tutorial before each campaign mission. It's all about balance. Big cities can be hard to manage if you haven't got the means to meet everyones needs. Also vagrants don't stop coming, by trying to house all your workers more vagrants come to the citie even if you don't have the jobs for them. This doesn't stop you from being able to play the game, it is only a slight annoyance in that you can't really create a perfect city. It also has a military side to it for those who would like it, adding another level in the game. Trying to keep yourself well defended whilst also keeping your city happy and growing adds the next difficulty to the game.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 22, 2015

  Although I've only played this game for a few hours on steam, I can assure you that I've racked up more time playing this game, as I've still got the hard copy from when it first came out from 2006, and let that be an indicator of how good of a game this is. To start with, the game is very simplistic in design and approach, but don't let that fool you into think this game is easy. To put it simply, it is relaxing but challenging, but the challenge can be set harder if you want to try at a much more diffcult level. But overall, this game is a pleasure, and, I should think I will play many more hours to this game for many years to come.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 2, 2016

  This is full of bugs. Some of the industry workers will not work. It doesn't matter if they are on red (work) or blue (free) time the well workers will just sleep in their houses or at the well and do nothing, It is the same story with stone workers, and wine workers.