City/State Building Games

[Xanthippe]

I loved the original Civ.  I have not particularly enjoyed the sequels, because I am more into the management of resources, building of cities, economic thing than the military thing, and the sequels have focused more on the military aspect.

I played and enjoyed Europa: The Guild (per some F13er's recommendation, thanks) but I'm done now.

How is Age of Mythology?

What other games like that are out there that might be worth playing for me?

TIA.

[Sky]

1503/1602AD. Kinda quirky, but it was a damned fun little builder/trade game. I've gotta load that one up again some day.

Also, Patrician III was a cool game.

I like this genre, too. I like building up nice empires and cities, the combat gets in the way most of the time in games like Civ.

[Yoru]

In the not-too-distant (2-3 year) period, there was a line of games from the development team of the old Caesar city-builders. I believe one of those was called 'Pharaoh'; I recall playing the demo and having a decent time. Sadly, that's all I can bid forth from my memory at the moment.

[Merusk]

I loved the original Civ.  I have not particularly enjoyed the sequels, because I am more into the management of resources, building of cities, economic thing than the military thing, and the sequels have focused more on the military aspect.

90% of my wins in Civ 3 and 4 have been Economic/ city building in nature.  I only go to war when I'm forced into it.  I'm a turtle/ city perfectionist. (Hell even after I win, I continue until I've got everything built in all my cities...It's a disease.)

[Kail]

New games, I'm not so sure about.  I do know a few old games you might want to try out, but you've probably already seen them.  For the long shot, if you haven't played Master of Magic, you'll probably want to give it a try.  It's a bit easy, but still really fun and, y'know, free.

[stray]

I'm going to have to order Patrician III, I think.

I like these type of games too, but there isn't enough of them around these days.

[Pococurante]

90% of my wins in Civ 3 and 4 have been Economic/ city building in nature.  I only go to war when I'm forced into it.  I'm a turtle/ city perfectionist. (Hell even after I win, I continue until I've got everything built in all my cities...It's a disease.)

Same here - in fact I stopped playing head to head with my friends simply because if I wanted to just kick their ass I'd play something else like Warcraft.  I'm a born builder and just lack that killer instinct I guess.  Though early in the game I am ruthless about absorbing at least one of my nearest neighbors.  Man's gotta have room to stretch his legs...

[raydeen]

http://www.immortalcities.com/cotn/

Very nice little game here from the makers of Caeser and Pharoah. It uses the Empire Earth engine. City/Civ building game but nowhere near as deep as Civ or the Ages games. Should be a nice little budget title by now as well. It's probably a year or year and a half old. Ran on my crappy old laptop so it should run on whatever you've got.

[Trippy]

http://www.immortalcities.com/cotn/

Very nice little game here from the makers of Caeser and Pharoah. It uses the Empire Earth engine. City/Civ building game but nowhere near as deep as Civ or the Ages games. Should be a nice little budget title by now as well. It's probably a year or year and a half old. Ran on my crappy old laptop so it should run on whatever you've got.

That looks interesting. Thanks for the link I'm downloading the demo now. I played all of their city building games while they were part of Impressions.

[AOFanboi]

In the not-too-distant (2-3 year) period, there was a line of games from the development team of the old Caesar city-builders. I believe one of those was called 'Pharaoh'; I recall playing the demo and having a decent time. Sadly, that's all I can bid forth from my memory at the moment.

Pharaoh and an expansion (Egypt), Zeus and an expansion (Greece) followed from and built on Caesar III gameplay. Apparently both very good, I only have Pharaoh but get bored by the gameplay quickly. Caesar IV is on its way, I read a preview that made it cound interesting.

But where's my Colonization II, Firaxis? Daddy needs a fix, even if Civ IV rocks.

Edit: In case people thought the words in parenthesis were the names of the expansions, they're the names of the periods. The expansion names are Queen of the Nile and Poseidon.

[Lum]

Check out Crusader Kings, as well. I raved about it here. You can play as a fairly peaceful royal family (choose an Orthodox house and you aren't even pressured to go Crusade).

[Strazos]

My only problems with games that represent you cities and territory in a very abstract way is that I like actually Seeing my creations - like when my capital cities in Civ4 have like, 9 wonders in them.

[raydeen]

My only problems with games that represent you cities and territory in a very abstract way is that I like actually Seeing my creations - like when my capital cities in Civ4 have like, 9 wonders in them.

That's the one thing that sold me on Children of the Nile. You could zoom right down to street level and watch people and their pet monkeys walk around doing their thing. Made it feel a bit more immersive.