Populous™ Reviews

[i]Populous™[/i] is certainly a forefather within the "god game" genre, but not much else can be said for this decades-old product that Electronic Arts arbitrarily put up for sale on the Steam store in modern times. Essentially, consumers will be purchasing a relic that requires reading of an [url=https://archive.org/details/populousmanual/Populous-Manual/page/n33/mode/2up]off-site[/url] manual in order to understand its 8-bit visuals and peculiar mechanics. Once players have adapted to both the visuals and mechanics, they can then play various worlds that differ in color theme and environmental effects with little difficulty. With god games like [i]Black & White[/i] (2001), [i]Populous: The Beginning[/i] (1998), and [i]The Universim[/i] (2024), it is difficult to justify buying archaic products when their successors are more attractive visually and satisfying mechanically by tenfold in comparison.

This holds up better than I expected for such an ancient game. We should never forgive EA for what they did to Bullfrog. I hope EA get woke AF so that they go bankrupt.

Good for nostalgia/retro players. The tutorial did not work for me, but you can play the Conquer mode just fine. Seek out the manual online; you'll be lost without it. You need to know what the different tools are to do anything. This is mainly recommended for old people who played this game when it originally came out. Alternatively, there are aspects of Minecraft here that you might like.