Posted on: April 27, 2025
Gonnzo50
Verified ownerGames: 40 Reviews: 1
Fun old school
Populous was a prelude to standard RTS games of the 90s. Still works today
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Populous™
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Includes Populous and the Promised Lands expansion.
Miracles are child's play. Earthquakes are serious fun. The all-powerful can perform miracles in their sleep. But omnipotence isn't what it used to be. These days, it takes awesome natural disasters to dominate a world. You give them good land. You tell them when to farm and when to fight. You make them content beyond their wildest dreams. But then they become raging arsonists. What's a deity to do? Disasters are your divine prerogative - volcanoes, quakes, swamps. For stubborn non-believers, nothing beats a flood for spring cleaning. Cruel ice, lush grassland, parched desert... With 500 worlds, a deity's work is never done.
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!
Miracles are child's play. Earthquakes are serious fun. The all-powerful can perform miracles in their sleep. But omnipotence isn't what it used to be. These days, it takes awesome natural disasters to dominate a world. You give them good land. You tell them when to farm and when to fight. You make them content beyond their wildest dreams. But then they become raging arsonists. What's a deity to do? Disasters are your divine prerogative - volcanoes, quakes, swamps. For stubborn non-believers, nothing beats a flood for spring cleaning. Cruel ice, lush grassland, parched desert... With 500 worlds, a deity's work is never done.
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!
Populous™ © 1994 Electronic Arts Inc.
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Time to beat
12 hMain
24 h Main + Sides
47.5 h Completionist
17.5 h All Styles
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Strategy, Classic, Management, Real-Time, Isometric,
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Managerial, Good Old Game, Supernatural
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Posted on: September 28, 2025
cloudrider7
Verified ownerGames: 3 Reviews: 2
Exactly as I remembered
Would prefer the SNES sounds and music, but this is a faithful reproduction of the original DOS game so no complaints on gameplay.
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Posted on: September 30, 2025
drew337
Verified ownerGames: 80 Reviews: 2
Classic game
They don't make games like this anymore
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Posted on: October 4, 2025
Kcaine
Verified ownerGames: 45 Reviews: 3
My First Addiction
This game was my first computer addiction on Atari STe. Amazing to see it restored for PC/Laptop gaming. Exactly as it is originally. Bringing back games like this is why I love GOG.
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Posted on: October 14, 2025
Incubuspawn
Verified ownerGames: 131 Reviews: 7
I love this game!
This is where it starts, eventually leading up to Black and White, which we still need on Gog.
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