M.U.L.E.

First of all this is the DOS-Version and not the Amiga-Version but you only get the manual for the Amiga-Version. In my opinion the DOS-Version is inferior to the Amiga-Version. For example in the DOS-Version the computer can hunt the wampus and doing so provides a large unbalanced amount of money. You can get up to 1000$ per turn which is way to much. Another example is that the racial benefits doesn´t work or there is usually only a single land auction per game. apart from the differences in the version the game isn´t well designed and balanced. All of the fancy strategies advertised in the manual doesn´t work. Getting rich by creating shortages or monopolies don´t work because the AI and every advanced player will and can quickly counter it. You will quickly notice that the game is basically reduced to mining smithore in the lower difficulty levels and mining/finding crystite in the higher ones. Producing medium to large amounts of food, energy (or smithore) will put you in an severe disadvantage and you are nearly guaranteed to loss the game by a wide mark. The best strategie is mostly to take one valley plot for food and to plain plots next to each other for energy to be autark and the rest of the plots will be crystite (or smithore). The replayability of M.U.L.E. isn´t really that high. Moreover the controls are clunky and sometimes unresponding. Also the game speed isn´t well adjusted. Parts of the game is way to fast to react especially with the control issues but countering it by reducing the cycles will slow down other parts of the game to much. All in all the game can be fun for a game or two because of the nice concept and the nostalgia but is too flawed to hold up in the long term. I also would recommend to get the Amiga-Version if you would like to give it a try!

I used to have this for both my old PCjr and my C64. It was my all time favorite party game with some friends. So I saw this pop up and thought it would be awesome to pick up for my kids and I to play. Except, the keyboard controls suck, the graphics aren't anything like I remember with either the C64 or PCjr. Any modern joystick seem to not to bind with the right controls, remembering this was built for the old simple one button joysticks. Even looking up controls on the internet to see if I could figure something out lead to no joy. The included manual in this release tells you nothing and makes reference to a quick reference card for all key commands, which I haven't found. That said, the game use to bring me really awesome joy, this version I was hoping would be awesome, but it is just lacking and sad that we can't have a way to get the right keyboard or joystick bindings or displays to work to make it look decent.

I found no way to determine if I am a seller or a buyer in the auction phase. None of the keys move my icon none of the mouse buttons. I dont have a controler or a joystick and it is not worth it to buy one to play this game. It is also true that I cant be sure it works with either, but Im guessing you would here about it if it didnt. Still I was hoping that gog wouldnt release a game that is not playable with a mouse and keyboard without a easy workaround like binding the arrow keys to joystick coordinates. By the way I loved mule on my atari 800.

M.U.L.E. was considered a ground-breaking title for its time thanks to its non-violent, multiplayer gameplay, cute alien animations along with a funky PC Beeper tune. Nowadays, it feels like a dated verison of Monopoly in SPAAAACE. If you want to try a modern alternative to this, try Offworld Trading Company.

Not the best way to play the game