Caesar 3

Its a Great game, difficult but rewarding.. Also, changing the txt document to Give money instead of costing is great. A simple Must buy.. I spent many hours on this game as a kid.. I'm 31 now and still enjoy playing this game, so glad GOG has it..

Caesar III is a Roman city-building simulator where you have to build the ideal Roman city using handfuls of buildings at your disposal. Build houses to give the settlers shelter, give them food, employment, entertainment, fire protection, water, and places of worship (lest the gods get angry with you), and provide government establishments to keep the plebs in line. On the surface it seems simple enough, but it's a circus. I was on the second campaign mission and the game just literally fell apart right before my eyes. The objective was to build farms so I could fill up a granary. Then I got messages to build reservoirs for water, fountains, markets, and all the while trying to provide prefectures and engineering stations to keep my buildings from catching on fire and falling down. Also the game kept telling me I didn't have enough workers to do all of the jobs that were in the city and then when I built more houses, the game kept telling me the workers were eating more food than was being produced, and I fit as many farms as I could into the small area they gave me to build farms in... Then since I was too preoccupied with building houses and farms, and wondering what else I needed to build, I forgot to build temples, so all of the gods started smiting me at once. Then new areas where I had built houses and other buildings started to catch fire since I was just rapidly placing houses down to try and get enough people to work my buildings... and it all just went downhill from there. This is the SECOND mission. I can't imagine how bad it's going to get further down the line... Play at your own peril...

Plenty of fun and also plenty of headache. As manual says, easy to play, hard to master. Bring a calming drink for yourself if you get into building roman city. You'll most probably need it (for those not calm enough, cold shower will help). Good game play will mix with most simple things driving you nuts (Hey, 20% unemployment. Get up your lazy bottom, there's empty farm over there. Oh my, why you always turn left here, I need you to turn goddamn right. Ceres, damn Ceres, you have four temples here, other gods have two, why are YOU upset? *ding* The house between two prefectures caught fire somehow.). So, things are going bad. Time to read the manual. Take your time. Fix problems when they arise. And be prepared for some really (I mean __REALLY__) bad kerning there. So you take a break, maybe sleep on it, but soon you'll return to your people, with new brilliant idea coming in mind, and you know it'll work perfectly this time. Well, it won't. But you'll return again. Linux users - works for me <tm> in ubuntu 16.04+wine-1.6.2.

My favourite game when I was a kid, could not put it down. Seen mixed reviews but gave it a try. The maps aren't as large as I remembered them to be but the gameplay is still great. starting can be frustrating when you think you've nailed a great village and then half your people leave because they are unhappy. But as you build a larger town the problems get easier to deal with. I used to build massive towns until my PC processor couldn't cope, but now on a modern PC that problem has gone. Thanks for keeping this game going. (Windows 10/Core i5/Geforce GTX1060).

Incredible game. This, for me, is the best city builder of all time. Better than Sim City. This is not a chill game where you make nice little cities. No. It's horrendously complex and obtuse. This is a citybuilder where you will be actively punished for suboptimal city layouts. Where Caesar will make demands of you. Where your citizens will need 5 different things, 2 things will always be going wrong, and you will be in debt. Where your cities will be spiraling into doom cycles and you won't really understand why until you grasp the massive breadth of mechanics. Incredibly addictive. Every map is different. Every map has new challenges, new constraints. Just unmatched.