Immortal Cities: Kinder des Nils

I like city builders and management games, so I bought this one recently. Pros: As listed before. Funny details (like the apes at the weaponary). Cons: As mentioned before: Crashes, bugs (e. g. a mine that no worker will work on, no matter what). This night-darkness. It's so tiring for the eyes, many long minutes of diffuse redish-brownness. One star down for that! Citizens, not seeing the things right in front of their eyes. I always liked control mechanisms like influence radii. :-) Here, say, a priest, may wander around and never get to the hospital right next to his home. Or just every other year or so. The game's reprodution model is still a puzzle to me. Everything is flourishing, and suddenly the educated die one after another of natural causes, and not a single child of all these noble families old enough to go to school and fill their place. So my scholars decreased from 17 to 6 in two years. It took 3 years to have 2 new pupils and a lot of prestige projects to keep the other citizens in a good enough mood not to leave. Immigration? - Unhappy /retired citizens leave the city. There is trade, there is war. A lot of border traffic. Why no immigration of workers and scholars (as far as I can tell)? So it feels like kind of a survivalist game to me, with the limited amount of new people, the arbitrary illnesses. Only difference: people here don't always act in their own interest. They are like real people. ;-) Unpredictable, taking the long way, making stupid decisions, taking others down in their own downfall, getting stuck sometimes. This, of course, could also be a Pro. It makes the gameplay interesting/challenging, as szenarios can become a bit repetitive. It's a nice enough game to spend some hours.

Wins 10, game will not start as DX9 is not found. DX9 download is no longer available for Wins 10.

This game is great, unfortunatly when I bought a new computer it came with windows 11. I hate the operating system, not only is it clunky, unituitive and takes a lot of extra steps to do the simplest things, but it also makes all my retro games not work anymore. If you have windows 10 or earlier and don't plan to upgrade, go for it, but unless GoG makes a fix that makes it work in Windows 11, stay away as it will not work. I will rate game 4, but since I can't play it anymore it gets a 1 star rating

Compared to Pharaoh: Upgraded graphics, simplified strategy. You can see in this game your ancient "sims" everyday life. Good blend of strategy in "Symcity" style at the ancient Egypt. I wish if there were more add-ons! A little bit expensive. I would gladly pay $5-6 for it.

good