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Sid Meier’s Civilization III: Play the World is a Management, City Building, Strategy, Tactical, and Single-player video game developed by Firaxis Games. Like other Civilization games, the player is controlling one of the most deliberating units with the aim to manage their essential resources like the economy, army, food, etc. Moreover, the game has added three new playable modes, Elimination, Regicide, and Capture the Flag.

In the official turn-less mode, all the acts are taken simultaneously by each player, and a turn ends when the turn timer runs out. In a certain time limit, the player must launch his attacks regardless of planning the attack. On the other hand, simultaneous mode lets the players play their turns at one time. The moves must be made strategically according to the placement of units and buildings. Classic mode is the most playable mode where each player takes his turn separately.

Pre-Civilization Marble Age is an Adventure, Strategy, Turn-based, and Single-player video game developed by Clarus Victoria for Windows. Throughout the game, the player has to lead a Greek civilization from ancient times to the advanced era and dominate the world. Along with managing the resources, the player has to raise the population and research new technologies. Adopting flawless development strategies and deploying accurate policies is the key to victory.

Moreover, the player can earn gold coins to unlock upgrades and become a great civilization manager. The game has a number of cities, and the player can select any city to beautify it. Every city has a certain amount of population and class type. Furthermore, every city is notorious due to its specification; for example, Sparta is well-known for fertile land, Corinth is famous for its modern army and prehistoric culture.

Sid Meier’s Civilization VI: Rise and Fall is a Strategy, Simulation, Turn-based, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Firaxis Games. Unlike other Sid Meier’s Civilization games, the main gameplay revolves around building an empire and guide a civilization through the different ages. It is in the player’s hand to inspire the lead around the world or will lose cities.

Establishing a Golden Age for the civilization is the main target of a leader throughout all the ages. The dark challenges will give the player a tough time, but he must respond well to such challenges and rise again in this Heroic Age. With the newly added Governor system, the player can customize their cities. The game has seven governors, and each of the governors has its own attributes and offers different playstyles. Along with the addition of the governor system, this installment has introduced almost eight new civilizations and nine new leaders for endless possibilities.

Idle Civilization: World History developed by kodoo is a Strategy, Historical, and Single-player video game for Android. Throughout the game, the player will come to experience the history of humankind from primitive structures to an advanced society of things with innovations and time travel. It all depends on the player’s decision and socio-economic formations.

The performance of the productive forces bends upon the historical events, panic battles, and the Crusades. The outcome of the story is dependent on the player’s decision, such as one decision can change the player’s life whereas the same decision could be a source of failure at the same time.

The game has multiple endings where every time the player has to make a unique step to experience different results. Jump into the adventure, be knowledgeable about the different historical events, experience several ancient times, and make multiple choices. The core features of the game are Multiple Endings, Different Historical Events, Time Travelling, and Addictive Gameplay.

Civilization Revolution is a Strategy, Turn-based, Management, and Single-player video game developed by Firaxis Games. Throughout the gameplay, the player oversees a civilization where the primary target is to care for the individuals and provide them advanced resources over the time. The game offers sixteen different civilizations, where each one has a unique leader.

Every faction starts with limited resources and a unique capability that includes technology, a Great Person, or a particular ability. As the game advances through time, the player must establish the faction to get new capacities and a particular number of technologies. Every faction can have up to four rewards that may differ from one civilization to another civilization.

The player can achieve victory in four unique manners such as Domination, Culture, Economically, and Technologically. The game offers NPC barbarians that will offer war to a distinctive civilization. In multiplayer mode, the player can make a play along with four players in one-on-one or two-on-two battle modes.

Civilization IV is a Strategy, Turn-based, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Firaxis Games for Windows. It serves as the fourth main instalment in the series of Civilization and offers the same gameplay with previous releases. Throughout the gameplay, the player takes control of one of the civilizations and gathers resources to expand and develop the selected civilization.

The player can hire soldiers to develop a strong army and defend the empire. As the player gains the victory, the game awards experience points to the player, and these points prove to be beneficial to unlock the upgrades and equipment. The game offers several resources to expand the city and allocates a spare space to build various buildings. It limits the player to develop one military unit and build one building at a time; additional resources are kept in the queue.

As the player makes progress, the performance increase and virtual currency add which a player can use to purchase the advanced equipment. The game has 18 different civilizations and several maps, such as plains, deserts, or tundra, to groom them into an attractive city.

Like other releases, this game has fog of war that allows the player to view the territories with having units or without units. Civilization IV has core features, such as 18 Civilizations, Different Maps, Resources, Equipment, Virtual Currency, Military Units, and Experience Points.

Age of Civilizations II is a Strategy, Historical, Simulation, Politics, Casual, Single-player, and Multiplayer video game developed by Lukasz Jakowski. It serves as the sequel of the Age of Civilizations by offering some advanced features. The main goal of the player is to conquer the world or bind it together by using military and crafting strategies.

It offers several civilizations extending from the most prominent domain to the littlest clan, where the player needs to lead his civilization. The game takes the player to the history of the human age by age, where the player can explore several secrets. It comes up with a wide range of maps with historical borders, a diplomatic system, and a point to point a variety of populations.

The game offers a virtual currency that a player can gain by flagging in different sectors of the world. The player can create its world and choose the desired scenario from different situations, such as history scenario, diplomatic scenario, etc. Age of Civilizations II has core features, such as Different Civilizations, Virtual Currency, Wide Range of Map, Several Scenarios, and Historic Gameplay.

Civilization VI: Gathering Storm is a Historical, Strategy, Adventure, and Single-player video game offered by Firaxis Games. It serves as the seventh main installment in the series of Civilization and introduces the same gameplay as the other titles offer with some advanced features. The player needs to find the secret behind the environmental changes that whether the changes come randomly or it relies on the environmental decisions.

The game offers natural disasters, such as volcanic emission, cloudbursts, hurricanes, dirt storms, the rising level of rivers, blizzards, and cool breeze. The player must store the water by building several resources, such as dams and barriers to take benefits later. Some of the disasters prove beneficial for the player; for instance, after volcanic emissions, influenced tiles may have their yields expanded.

The player can also research green power alternative solutions, such as geothermal power stations as the civilization discovers mountains, rivers, and desserts and named the places accordingly. The game introduces Diplomacy for the player through which he can earn diplomatic points by many sources and must win public votes to achieve diplomatic victory.

The game also offers eight civilizations, nine leaders, new technologies, civics era, and two scenarios, such as The Black Death and War Machine. In the Black Death, the player needs to lead the nation calm and alive in the mid of the 14th century, while the war machine allows the player to take the role of Germany to capture Paris or as France to prevent its capture.

The game has core features, such as Eight Civilizations, Nine Leaders, Two Scenarios, Strategy-based Gameplay, Natural Disasters, and Diplomacy.

The Rise of Nation game series includes some really great games like Rise of Nation: Thrones and Patriots and Rise of Nations: Gold Edition. This epic real time strategy game is developed by Big Huge Games. This game is based on the historical events of time and travels back to almost 6000 years of ancients. Main features include heavy Warfare, city building, governance, troops, battles, thrones, trade and merchandise etc. This super amazing RTS game never lets you feel like you are wasting your time while playing this game. Graphics and game-play are quite like Age of Empires. Storyline and user interface are a bit different. Rise of Nations expansion pack offers new nations, campaigns for single players, more troop units and some really great new wonders and government types to choose. This amazingly wondrous and engaging game can be played only on PC.

Anno 2070 is a Real Time Strategy, Economic Simulation, City Building and Construction video game developed by Related Designs and Ubisoft Blue Byte. The game is set in the year 2070 where the global warming has melted a huge ice cap and because of the rising sea level, a number of ancient cities have vanished from the face of the earth. The remaining parts of the land are scattered in the form of small islands. It is now your responsibility to explore and rebuild the islands from scratch. You must create groups of people with specific skills and assign them different tasks to design and rebuild the lost cities using advanced technology and tactics. Anno 2070 allows you to rebuild and re-settle people in the cities and govern over the most flourished and prosperous economies ever. Anno 2070 is a great game to play and enjoy, if you want to experience true building and construction gaming with a touch of RTS, you must play this game.

Sid Meier’s Civilization V or shortly named as Civilization V is a wonderful 4X Turn-based MMO-RTS video game by Firaxis Games. The game is based on the player who leads a civilization from Primordial times to the future on a methodologically created map. The game lets you use your skills and experiences for the Research, Exploration, Diplomacy, Expansion of the lands, Economic and technological development, Governmental and Military Conquests etc. Civilization V inherits a lot of characteristics and mechanics from Civilization IV but a slight change is the absence of a lot of expansion packs. Unlike the previous versions of the game, Battle and combat characteristics are quite changed, Cities can now defend themselves by devastating the enemies situated nearby, and a lot of military restrictions are gone. Sid Meier’s Civilization V resembles Age of Mythologies a lot, story-line and game-play is quite overhauled and the game provides with Single and Multiplayer Campaigns so you can enjoy it more. Graphics are greatly enhanced as compared to the older versions of the game. With 2 expansion packs Civilization V: Gods and Kings and Civilization V: Brave New World, this game offers wonderful visuals, a brilliant game-play etc.

Civilization III: Conquests is the 2nd Downloadable Content Pack for the fabulous game Civilization III and introduces eight civilizations developed by BreakAway Games and published by Atari. The game has both Single-player and Multiplayer modes and focuses on Turn-based Strategy gameplay with Role-playing elements. The Hittites, the Byzantines, the Incans, the Sumerians, etc. are prominent civilizations in the game from which the player has to select his one of them to start the game. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets the player establish his empire, recruit an army, and gather resources to expand his empire. The player can control his people to develop the city, place buildings, and use defenses to fend off enemies by getting into his city. As the player proceeds, the game unlocks additional content to use. The player can battle enemies in turn-based combat and use his strategy in his turn to eliminate the foe. There are different levels, and each level offers unique scenario, challenges and more. With core features, and addictive gameplay, Civilization III: Conquests is the best game to play.

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization mixes the Real-time Strategy, and Turn-based elements developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. It is the remake of the turn-based strategy game Sid Meier’s Civilization: Colonization released in 1994 and lets the player control shelters from one of four nations such as Netherlands, England, France and Spain. It takes place in the fictional land in the period from 1492 to 1792. The primary objective of the player is to build up his colony, create an army and train it to defend his territory from enemy’s attack. The player must lead his army in battle against enemies and take down them, claim their land and loot their resources to expand the empire while scoring the points to unlock additional content to become the master with modern features. There are a variety of levels, and each level is more difficult compared to previous one. With core features, superb mechanics, and addictive graphics, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Colonization is the best game to play and enjoy.

Age of Mythology is a Myth-based MMO-RTS video game by Ensemble Studios. The game is basically a Spin-off from the Age of Empires Series and is based on Greek, Egyptian and Norse mythologies. With an Age of Empires inspired game-play and mechanics, Age of Mythology features Admiral Arkantos from Atlantean Origins who is destined to explore the game world divided into 3 most significant cultures and hunt down Cyclops, a companion of Poseidon, and an enemy of Atlantis. Age of Mythology offers a typical gameplay to a lot of other MMORTS games and because of that it allows you to defeat a number of enemy units, build structures, towns, farms etc., train villagers into fully skilled fighters or soldiers, wage epic wars against the neighboring and distant Civilizations, Rival Towns etc. Your main task in the game is to always keep on advancing your tribes and to achieve that goal you’ll have to start from Archaic Age then eventually upgrades to Classic Age, Heroic Age and finally reach to the Mythic Age. Each and every upgrades to any age unlocks more unique Units, Technologies etc. and allows you to be in a more advanced time than the previous. Age of Mythology offers four types of main resources such as Food, Gold, Favor that you can use to train your troop units, build structures, research etc. Age of Mythology lacks one main resource Stone and lets you use other things instead of that. Furthermore, Age of Mythology offers brilliant options to build a strong economy, diplomatic relations with friendly nations etc. With a number of units classified into seven main classes such as Infantry, Cavalry, Archery, Naval, Heroes, Myth Units and Siege Weaponry controlled by Human Units, options to build multiple types of buildings such as Economic buildings, Markets, Farms, Military buildings, Research Facilities, Defensive Structures such as Towers and weapon Mounts etc, Age of Mythology offers a brilliantly engaging and quite addictive gameplay to enjoy.

Tropico is a City Building, Construction, and Management Simulation by Pop Top Software and Feral Interactive. The game allows the players to get into the role of “El Presidente.”, Rule over the Island in the Carribean Sea in the Era of Cold War. As the primary goal of the game is to stay always in Power, the players are required to keep the population of the Island Happy. If the Populace is unhappy with the El President’s actions, they may vote somebody else instead of the player. All the non-governmental powers and Factions can unsettle the Rule of El Presidente, so the player must keep all of these factors controlled. If there are Powers that get unhappy with El President’s rule, they will form an alliance and challenge the players so the players will need to keep them happy as well. As this game is all about Democracy and Foreign relations, diplomacy and Trade, the players must be good at every said aspect or else he/she can lose the title. Customizing the Island’s Map, political and economic relations, enemy intrusions and other governmental affairs are the most critical and challenging tasks to perform. With all the addictive gameplay, constructions, management and socio-economic elements, Tropico offers various game modes such as Scenario, Custome Game, Random Map and Campaign. Furthermore, Tropico offers brilliant character customization options for the character of El Presidente and allows the players to select any of the real life figures such as Che Guevara, Augusto Pinochet, Fidel Castro, Hernando Blanco, Lou Baga and Sancho Baraega, etc. Tropico is an amazingly addictive and quite surprisingly informative simulation to enjoy. Do give it a try for an excellent City Building, Construction, and Management experience.

Townsmen is a Strategy-based Building and Management Simulation developed by Handy Games. It takes the players back to the medieval Era and tasks them to build their own City. The game’s ultimate goal is to develop a tiny village into a fully advanced and thriving Empire, boost the economy, and produce the happiest villagers ever. It allows the players to find mining spots, harvest all the necessary resources, and enjoy constructing them.

The players are also tasked to build fields, gardens, markets, erect statues, build massive and attractive monuments to decorate the city. Bandits in the game are the worst of all problems. The players must build barracks, guarding towers, recruit and train soldiers to protect the citizens. The game offers to run the businesses smoothly to make an economically strong nation.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to manage a whole kingdom, a city or a territory and wage wars against the enemies to either conquer them or to loot their resources, survive and flourish an amazing and prosperous civilization? Well if you want to experience an amazing King or a General like feeling, Rise of the Nations is the game built just for you. Rise of Nations is a Single and multiplayer MMO-RTS Video game that provides with a great blend of fantasy elements. The game allows you to be part of a hugely mapped and beautifully created game world, Construct Buildings (Barracks, Forts, Defense, Markets etc.), Make Allies, Wage Wars against your enemies, Gather up Resources etc. The game also lets you accommodate more than eighteen different races, train more troops from eight unique classes and use best strategies against your enemies. Rise of Nations basically focuses on the balance between Economy, Offense and Defense and encourages you to fully strategize your every move in the game. Rise of nations offers a marvelously engaging and quite immersive game-play, a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaigns, great visual details and loads of brilliant things to discover. Do try it out if you haven’t yet and enjoy the ultimate fun.

Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a truly amazing and quite engaging Fantasy based MMO and Real Time Strategy video game developed by Big Huge Games. The game allows you to play a number of campaigns and missions, conquer your enemies and loot their resources. The main objectives of the game include City building, accommodations of your people and troops, construction of defensive structures etc. You must make best strategies to defeat your enemies and to make your defenses impenetrable. You can accommodate different sets of individuals and for that you’ll need to build different buildings like Military barracks, Markets, Palaces, Maguses (Research labs) and industries etc. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends lets you be in power and write the fate of all the people living in your settlement. For resources you must wage wars against your enemies and use best of your skills and strategies to conquer them. Rise of Nations: Rise of Legends is a great RTS game to play and enjoy. Do try it out.

Roads of Rome: New Generation is a Real-time Strategy, City-Building, and Single-player video game developed by BigFish. The game takes place in the stunning world and lets you create and lead a Roman Empire. Due to an earthquake, your empire has been destroyed and your main objective is to create new shelters, rescue your people, and restore the life. You must build new roads, gather resources, and unlock further content using your experience points. It has four different modes and forty stunning levels. The game becomes more difficult as you progress in it. It unlocks other levels as you complete quests or complete an objective. Craft different items, build amazing houses, buildings, and structures, and prove yourself as the best King. You can control the Empire’s citizen to create different things. The game combines the elements of crafting, building, and you can play the game from an isometric view. With detailed environment, mouse controls, different modes, stunning visuals, win the love of a beautiful girl, gain respects points, and excellent gameplay, Roads of Rome: New Generation is the wonderful game to play and enjoy.

Command and Conquer Generals: Zero Hour focuses on Real-time Strategy gameplay and supports both Single and Multiplayer modes created by EA Lost Angeles and published by EA Games. The game includes new units, abilities, and modes of play known as Generals’ Challenge. There are different factions such as USA, China, GLA, etc. and you can select one of them to get access to the game world where you have to lead your army in the fictional world and fight against others to progress. Each faction has its strength and weakness and a set of units and weapons. Build your base, recruit army and equip them with advanced weapons. Defend your base and upgrade your units using your rewards and bonuses. Gather resources, and conquer another base by defeating them. It has different modes such as Reborn, Contra, and Rise of the Reds, Shockwave, Operation Firestorm and more. There are a series of missions with unique gameplay and quests. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Roads of Rome is a Strategy, Time Management, and Single-player Simulation developed and published by Realore. The game takes place in unknown locations around the world full of mysteries and dangers. It puts you in the role of the protagonist, who must explore the beautiful scenes, complete a variety of tasks and progress in the game. You have to follow the romantic story, take up tasks to complete and manipulate barbarian lands to earn points. According to the story, a brave general (the protagonist), falls in love with the daughter of Caesar and wish to marry her. Caesar decides his daughter get married with someone else. Caesar sends his troops to build multiple roads across the land, find new areas and expand his Empire and power. If you complete all these tasks, Caesar will become happy from you. There are a set of levels, and each level needs a completion of certain tasks to progress. Intuitive Controls, Realistic Sound Effects, Four Mini-Games and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is a Downloadable Content Pack for the Turn-based Strategy and 4X video game Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth. The expansion pack introduces new features such as water gameplay, revamped diplomacy system, hybrid affinities, and exploration system. It supports both Single and Multiplayer modes developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The game features several dimensions to aquatic gameplay. Unlike previous titles, aquatic-based cities can be moved. The player can take on the role of the protagonist and the primary task is to create units to defend his empire and make strategies to take down enemies. The player can explore the environment from isometric view and can create his army to face off enemies. In the beginning, the player needs to colonize the ocean by creating floating settlements and harvesting resources. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide offers prominent features such as Colonize the Ocean, Dynamic Leader Traits, Four new Factions, New Artifact System and more. Sid Meier’s Civilization: Beyond Earth: Rising Tide is the brilliant game to play and enjoy.

Roads of Rome 3 offers an exciting gameplay, revolving around Real-time Strategy, Time Management and Building elements developed and published by Realore for multiple platforms. The game casts the player in the role of the protagonist, and his ultimate task is to fend off barbarians by fighting against each other and rebuild shelters before time runs out. There are Forty-three ridiculous levels available, and each level needs a completion of individual objectives. During the game, the player controls the character, collect resources like gold, woods, stones, etc. and harvest crops to earn points. The player can use his resources to rebuild bridges, overcome obstacles and make his land beautiful using lots of items and decorations. The story focuses on the female protagonist named as Julia, who lived with his people and enjoy peace. One day, a messenger appears with bad news about Barbarians spreading destruction everything in Roman Province. The player must stop the enemies and rebuild the city to become the master. Roads of Rome 3 offers core features such as Resource Management, Strategy Gameplay, beautiful Graphics and more.

Sid Meier’s Civilization III serves as a 3rd entry in the series of Sid Meier’s Civilization created by Firaxis Games and published by Infogrames. The game mixes the Resources Management, 4X, Turn-based Strategy and Business Simulation elements played from an isometric perspective. In the game, there are fifteen different civilizations available including Russians, Egyptians, Aztecs, and more. The player needs to select one of fifteen factions to get into the world where he assumes the role of the ruler with an objective to make strong his military and cultural attributes. Each civilization has its unique weaknesses and strengths. The player must lead his army to participate in combat and struggle to conquer the weakest territory to loot the resources and claim the land. There are multiple ways to win the battle such as Military, Cultural and Diplomatic. The player has to collect resources to build new cities, grow foods to feed his labor and citizens and earn money to discover new technologies and craft weaponry to equip his troops to defend his empire. With prominent features, immersive gameplay, and smooth controls, Sid Meier’s Civilization III is the best game to play and enjoy.

Supreme Commander or popularly known as SupCom is a wonderful Real-Time Strategy and MMO video game by Gas Powered Games. The game allows you to Pilot giant Mechs named as Armored Command Units (ACUs) and lets you build your own Base, build more Mech units like the one you are piloting, use sophisticated technologies to upgrade your mech units, wage wars against the enemies and conquer their outposts. You can select anyone of the three main factions, go hunting on the enemies and eventually expand your mechanical reign. With a number of fantastic Single and Multiplayer Campaign, missions and side missions for you to engage yourself in and enjoy a brilliant experience. Supreme Commander is the predecessor to 1997’s “Total Annihilation” if you consider it to and it offers almost similar game-play and mechanics and allows yo to have a totally unique MMO-RTS experience. With a futuristic game setting, beautifuly created 3D visuals and all the thrilling Campaigns in the game, Supreme Commander is one of the best games of this specific genre.

Civilization II is a Single-player and Multiplayer Turn-based Strategy video game developed and published by MicroProse for Microsoft Windows. The game serves as the part of the Civilization series and offers the similar gameplay like its previous. It brings new units, world wonders, civilizations, and advanced technologies. The game changes the graphics from a top-down perspective to an isometric view. During the gameplay, you have to build an empire, recruit armies, and command your soldiers in the battlefield to fight against greatest leaders. Take the strong political decision, update your army, make your strategy and fulfill the requirements of each level to become the master. The game rewards you with XP points which can be used to unlock further content like units, defenses, troops and more. Civilization II includes prominent features such as Command your Armies, Negotiate with Rivals, Construct beautiful World, Map Editor and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords is the first Downloadable Content Pack of the famous Turn-based Strategy video game Civilization IV, developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The DLC pack introduces new features to the original title such as the Great General, Vassal States, Eight new Scenarios, Six New Civilizations, Ten new Leaders, Three new Leader Traits, Unique Buildings, Three new Wonders, and more. It comes with a new type of Great Person unit, called the Great General. According to plot, Great Generals established when the total experience earned by the military units of the civilization against other civilization reaches to the certain thresholds. The Vassal States enables the player to take up other empires and expand his empire to advance through it. In the game, the player must establish his empire by selecting the buildings, assume the role of the leader, command his army in battlefield and take down opponents to loot the resources in turn-based system. Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: Warlords includes prominent features such as Unique Buildings, Leader Traits, New Wonders, Improvements, new Resources, and more. Check it out, and have fun.