Populous™: The Beginning

The whole of GoG.com's existance was purely for this moment. Now that Populous is here they can stop. They've done the best work they'll ever do, bringing this game back to me.

Imagine warcraft III but you have one hero with ALL the abilities. It's an RTS with a physics engine. You can cast a fire ball beside an enemy to have the blast push them off a cliff and/or into the ocean. The game is absolute choas in the best way. Summon bees in your enemy camps, convert enemy troops with missionaries, or summon an angel of death and watch your enemies visably panic. However your foes can do all of that too. It's old school but holes up very well. Graphics are still very servicable, there's no cap to how many unit you can control at a time, and the game still offers a unique RTS experience. The only real downsides it the lack of functional multiplayer, and some very preditable AI behavior. Still though for $5-10 its worth it for the novel experience alone.

I remember playing this game in it's demo form with a cd purchase of Sim City 3000. I religiously played that demo for years, but was never able to buy the game. Fast forward 27 years later and a core memory has been unlocked. This game for sure paved the way for subsequent God-mode games to come. Nowadays every neat game is behind a pay-wall, but not this beauty. Simply play it to it's fullest from the get go. I'll be mastering this game over the summer. Cheers to GOG for placing this game in their library!

It's great to be able to play this game again. I remember having this game when I was a child. At the time I was fooling around with it not fully understanding the mechanics of the game. Now that I have it again I can play it with strategy. Thank you GOG.com for allowing me to play this game again!

Ah yes, playing the demo version of this was was simply not enough to satisfy my populous needs! Glad to see that GOG brings it back as this game deserves to be shown to everyone who has not experienced this classic beauty!