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Caesar II

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4.3/5

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4.3

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Caesar II
Description
Build Rome in the Ultimate City-Building Simulation! You are the Governor of a Roman province whose capital city (if you build it well!) will become the talk of the Empire. Choose from dozens of authentic structures - temples, aqueducts, bath houses, even the Circus Maximus - and watch your city sp...
Genre:
Strategy - Building - Historical
Tags:
Strategy, Classic, Historical, Building, City builder
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4.3/5

( 40 Reviews )

4.3

40 Reviews

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Product details
1995, Impressions Games, ESRB Rating: Everyone...
System requirements
Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10, 1.8 GHz, 512 MB RAM, 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 7 (co...
Time to beat
7 hMain
9 h Main + Sides
15.5 h Completionist
11 h All Styles

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Description
Build Rome in the Ultimate City-Building Simulation!

You are the Governor of a Roman province whose capital city (if you build it well!) will become the talk of the Empire. Choose from dozens of authentic structures - temples, aqueducts, bath houses, even the Circus Maximus - and watch your city spring to life. Develop resources, open trade routes and promotion will soon follow.

Then expand your territories and move up the ranks. Your challenge - to rise and become the next Caesar - while confronting upstart Gauls, invading barbarians and restless citizens who threaten your eternal cities.

Can you do as the Romans did and build the ultimate city?
  • Build magnificent cities in authentic architectural detail.
  • Develop your province with trade routes, industries, and fortifications.
  • Defend your city from invaders with easy point and click combat.

© 2002 Activision Publishing, Inc. Activision is a registered trademark and Caesar II is a trademark of Activision Publishing, Inc. All rights reserved. The ratings icon is a registered trademark of the Entertainment Software Association. All other trademarks and trade names are the properties of their respective owners.

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This game is powered by DOSBox.
Why buy on GOG.COM?
DRM FREE. No activation or online connection required to play.
Safety and satisfaction. Stellar support 24/7 and full refunds up to 30 days.
Time to beat
7 hMain
9 h Main + Sides
15.5 h Completionist
11 h All Styles

Game length provided by HowLongToBeat

Game details
Genre:
Strategy - Building - Historical
Tags:
Strategy, Classic, Historical, Building, City builder
Works on:
Windows (7, 8, 10, 11)
Release date:
{{'1995-01-01T00:00:00+02:00' | date: 'longDate' : ' +0200 ' }}
Company:
Impressions Games / Activision
Size:
63 MB
Links:
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Rating:
ESRB Rating: Everyone
Game features
Cloud saves
Single-player
Languages
English
audio
text
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Posted on: April 25, 2023

Honved2016

Verified owner

Games: 55 Reviews: 29

Favorite of the series

This second installment of the Caesar series includes field combat, which means that you can send a Legion out to deal with barbarian invaders or conquer rival villages BEFORE they reach your city. One of the other Caesar games allows field battles to be exported and played out in a related (Siege?) game (which I did not see on GOG), while most of the later games have your defenders deal with invaders (or fail to) in an unrealistic piecemeal fashion on your city map, PLEBS ARE NEEDED - Yes, because you assigned too many tasks without sufficient manpower to accomplish them. This is one of the first things you learn to deal with and keep track of throughout the game, and is one of the primary ways that the game limits the player's expansion so you don't "win" the scenario in 15 minutes. Working efficiently within your budgets of both money and manpower are the keys to victory. I find this one a bit more refined than Caesar 1, and a bit more relaxing than 3, a good compromise in my opinion.

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Posted on: February 15, 2023

Silvercrystalct

Verified owner

Games: 64 Reviews: 2

A classic

I may be looking at the game with rose tinted glasses. Caesar II was the first city builder I ever played, it set the stage for how I look at all other city builder games. In laymen terms your objective is to take a backwater province build a city that caters to the needs of your citizens and also send tribute (money) back to Caesar and Rome… if you fail your avatar spends the rest of its life chained to an oar. You need to plan ahead right from the start, your people want food, water, education, healthcare, baths, entertainment, security and etc. etc. But you either don't have access or cant afford all of these things at the start. If you ever played Rinworld and thought Randy Random was unfair, well meet his many times great uncle. You’ll get to many points where everything seems to be smooth sailing and then boom half your city is on fire, barbarians are invading, your last tribute offended the emperor, all the stockpiles in the city are suddenly empty and just when you were about to spend your limited funds someone broke into the temples and made off with your money. And thats just on city only mode, Province mode is even more “FUN” I’ve played 3 and 4, they just seem to lack something that this one had.

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Posted on: November 28, 2024

tproberts777

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Games: 428 Reviews: 27

plebs are needed

plebs are needed ... plebs are needed

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Posted on: February 9, 2025

AxiomaticAxio

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Games: 1566 Reviews: 30

More of a City-Sim than Caesar 3

The later games are less simulators or city builders than they are puzzles, contraptions that involve sending walkers down the right path. Caesar 2 lets you build a city where a road intersection won't destroy your economy.

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Posted on: February 15, 2021

afard333

Games: 95 Reviews: 5

Classic!

Such a fun game from the good old 90’s!! Wish they would remake them for younger generations to appreciate. Or a new version for us all to enjoy.

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