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[Sirus]

Mobile? PC? Console? Anything that stands out?

[marples]

I played it on PC. I also remember that crafting was encouraged, but grinding mobs for materials made the game harder.

[Jiharo]

Haven't played it, but Last Remnant, perhaps?

[Tiruin]

I'm thinking about a game--somewhat 'old', and only a demo as far as I played it: It concerns itself with an egyptian civilization, much like a strategic civilization game. It was isometric, and you built your civilization by making 'huts' which grew based on their connections to 'civil services' and other goods that you grab from the environment around you. It was somewhat pixel-ish, and the last mission of the demo needed you to make some kind of monument (I couldn't do it because of balancing both the flood plains food needs, getting paper across the darn river for my schools, finding out how to make boats that won't die to sudden 2 invaders kicking my boats, and getting my populace happy to do anything).

THere were certain buildings like a well where you have a dude get water from, and he somehow walks over in your roads to the buildings and...somehow that puts out fires and gives the inhabitants water, your residential buildings can 'conglomerate' into a bigger building if they exist in a 2x2 square together, there's some kind of police force I think that helps, and the market can hire market-kids to help deliveries--I never found out how to work this efficiently because I was busy worrying about flood plains and 'oh wow seasonal harvests!'. I also worshipped the Goddess Bast, in that demo.

Then I forgot the name of the game and whether any full-er version can be played. :I As far as I know, there was no direct control over people, but control over the pathing and such. Oh and you can adjust taxes.

[Il Palazzo]

Sounds very much like Sierra's 'Pharaoh'.

[Rolan7]

That sounds a lot like Caesar 2, or maybe one of the later ones I haven't played yet.  Huts upgrade and eventually join into better homes, but only if they're in range of various services.  Places like praefectures send out "walkers" who randomly travel along your road network, determining which areas are considered covered.  And there was an early Total War style combat since, in the campaign, you were expanding the empire's borders - by building nice cities for the locals and defending them, not doing the initial invasions.

[Tiruin]

Sounds very much like Sierra's 'Pharaoh'.

I love you all and thanks a ton!

That sounds a lot like Caesar 2, or maybe one of the later ones I haven't played yet.  Huts upgrade and eventually join into better homes, but only if they're in range of various services.  Places like praefectures send out "walkers" who randomly travel along your road network, determining which areas are considered covered.  And there was an early Total War style combat since, in the campaign, you were expanding the empire's borders - by building nice cities for the locals and defending them, not doing the initial invasions.

There's MORE OF IT!? Wow!

[Akura]

There's MORE OF IT!? Wow!

Several. Aside from Pharaoh Caesar I through IV, there's one for Greece(Zeus, with an expansion called Poseidon), and one for China(Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom). In my opinion though, all except Emperor:RotMK are buggy mess, but all except that one are available on Steam. All including Emperor are available on GOG.

[Haspen]

Hey don't you diss Zeus, I've spent ages on it V:<

* Haspen stabs Akura

[Akura]

You know, I don't think I played much of Zeus(Steam says only 25 minutes). Not sure why. Maybe the tutorials weren't completing correctly I don't know.

[Mech#4]

There is a bit of an issue with Zeus where the gods spawn really slowly compared to the rest of the game. This causes issues with some levels where you need a god to appear and defeat a monster.

There might be a fix for this on the GOG.com forums. Here's one fix someone found involving turning off playback and recording devices temporarily.

Spoiler: Copy of post from GOG.com forum (click to show/hide)

I have read all 3 pages in this thread, searched google extensively, experimented thoroughly, and now I have a solution to offer that might help whoever is reading. This solution requires nothing to download and no files to tamper with. You will be able to play the game at a good speed (90%) and most importantly WITH SOUND.

For reference, I am running Zeus+Poseidon on Windows 8. Obviously, your results may differ. MoMoune did a great job in describing the issue earlier in this thread. I will summarize his findings in one sentence: He found that all was well by simply disabling all recording devices and closing all applications/programs that might in any way involve audio generation (e.g., web browsers, winamp, itunes, etc.). One problem is that this solution does not seem to work for everyone.

I was excited and tried it. Like others in this thread have mentioned, his solution failed for me. However, I noticed that if you disable all your PLAYBACK devices as well as your RECORDING devices, the slow animation bug will be fixed. However, surely this is a solution that is even worse than the problem. After all, what's the point of playing Zeus if you can't hear the exceptional voice acting, the atmospheric music, and the tantalizing sound effects of the gods and monsters?

After disabling all my recording/playback devices, I alt-tabbed, and re-enabled my audio playback functionality. I alt-tabbed back into the game. I unpaused. God/Olympian animations are now working fine despite the fact that sound is working! To double check, I loaded a tutorial involving an Olympian animation (e.g., the last tutorial where Apollo spawns at the start) and to my delight, he loads without issue and I still have sound running.

I wanted to make a video to demonstrate this, but then I realized that the streamrecording software I use automatically involves audio capture and so I wasn't able to demonstrate it "working" while recording.

TL;DR /SUMMARY:

One (painful) solution is to disable all playback and recording audio devices while playing. Make sure you close all programs in the background that might involve audio (this includes web browsers).

A new (better) solution I have found is to disable all playback/recording audio devices, make sure everything works, alt-tab, and re-enable playback devices. Again - make sure you close all programs in the background that might involve audio (this includes web browsers). You must NEVER re-open another program that uses audio while playing Zeus.


Addendum:

This fix will not work if you have ANYTHING in the background that uses audio. The nice thing about this fix is that it is PERMANENT (i.e., you won't ever have to disable and re-enable playback again). However, it is also CONDITIONAL; you must ONLY run the game without any other programs that involve audio (like Chrome) running in the background). It can also be SEMI-PERMANENTLY revert to problem-state: When I opened a stream-recording program, my fix no longer worked - as one might expect. HOWEVER, even after closing this program, the resulting solution was better than the original problem but also worse than the original solution, therefore, for best results, try not to open any other audio recording software ever during the duration of your game. If you do and you're not happy, though, you can always restart your computer and restart zeus. You won't have to repeat the disable + enable sound trick, though, which is nice.

Note, your mileage may vary depending on your setup etc.

Other than that, Caesar III, Pharaoh and Zeus have all worked fine for me. My favorite is the Pharaoh series what with the building of pyramids and large monuments putting strain on your city infrastructure.
I think there's a similar game in 3D called "Children of the Nile".

[AzyWng]

There’s this one open-world game I’ve heard about that’s apparently kind of like Mount and Blade but much more brutal and set in a much different land. I can’t really recall much more of it than that, however...

[LoSboccacc]

for honor?

[Ametsala]

Kenshi?

[AzyWng]

It’s definitely Kenshi - I remember it now.

Thanks.