City Building is a series of historical city-building games developed by Impressions Games, BreakAway Games, Tilted Mill Entertainment (following Impressions' demise), and published by Sierra Entertainment. The series began in 1992 with Caesar, set in the Roman Empire, and consists of twelve games to date, including expansion packs.

In the City Building series the player is put in charge of providing goods and services to the populace of their town, ensuring crime is low, and reducing the risk of disease, fire and building collapse. The player must also strike a balance between imports, exports and taxes to keep their town financially strong. The player is also responsible for defending their town against invasion by building a military.

The series covers four ancient civilizations: Roman, Egyptian, Greek and Chinese. Titles released up until 2004 used the same isometric view game engine, although progressively tweaked and modified according to the theme of the game. Subsequent titles use three-dimensional graphics engines.

Games

The series includes:

  • Set in the Roman Empire:
  • Caesar (1992)
  • Caesar II (1995)
  • Caesar III (1998)
  • Caesar IV (2006)
  • Set in ancient Egypt:
  • Pharaoh (1999)
  • Expansion Cleopatra: Queen of the Nile (2000)
  • Remake Pharaoh: A New Era (2023)
  • Immortal Cities: Children of the Nile (2004)
  • Expansion Children of the Nile: Alexandria (2008)
  • Set in ancient Greece:
  • Zeus: Master of Olympus (2000)
  • Expansion Poseidon: Master of Atlantis (2001)
  • Set in ancient China:
  • Emperor: Rise of the Middle Kingdom (2002)
  • Set in the Middle Ages:
  • Medieval Mayor (TBA)

Medieval Mayor

Medieval Mayor was an announced city-building game set in the Middle Ages by Tilted Mill Entertainment for the PC and tablets. Walkers would once again be limited by roadblocks instead of the more recent radius-based or pseudo walker systems, In later interviews, Chris Beatrice expressed both his continued desire to eventually make the game and reticence to start development.

References

  • Official Medieval Mayor website
  • Top 25 Most Underrated Games of All Time from GameSpy (#25) posted on rome.ro