knights and merchants the peasants rebellion

I could watch my townsfolk go about their daily routines for hours, carefully monitoring the production and distributing of resources and reworking the routes through town to make them more efficient. I absolutely adored setting up the town, laying out the roads, and putting people to work chopping down trees, building structures, and working in bakeries and lumberyards and smithies or on farms and vineyards. And Peter Molyneaux’s Black and White, a kind of cross between Populous and a Tamagotchi, has been something I’ve revisited multiple times over the years.īut the first game of this type that I ever played is the one that has stayed with me the longest: Knights and Merchants: The Peasants Rebellion. The Sims is a popular and addictive example, of course. I have always been attracted to games (or simulations or digital toys or whatever you want to call them) that let me set up a world and then watch to see how its inhabitants managed.

Since last week I’ve been thinking about so-called god games and their close cousins, construction and management sims.

Knights and merchants the peasants rebellion