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1992 · Impressions Games · City-building · Historical

Caesar

In Caesar, your job is to govern your province as efficiently as possible. Much of your time will be spent in designing and building the capital city of your Province. Housing, water-supply, industry and many other factors will have to be balanced to produce a successful city.

Released: 12 October 1992
Platforms: Amiga Atari ST Atari ST/STE MS-DOS macOS
Genres: City-building Historical Real-time strategy Simulation Strategy
Developers: Impressions Games
Publishers: Impressions Games
Series: Caesar
Modes: Single-player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
Themes: Fantasy Historical
Country: United Kingdom
Age ratings: ESRB E USK 12
Languages: English, French, German

About

Caesar is a 1992 city-building video game published by Sierra On-Line in which the player undertakes the role of a Roman governor, building ancient Roman cities.

Released in 1992 on the Amiga and ported the following year to Atari ST, PC and Macintosh, the game is similar to SimCity. In addition to similar graphics and user interfaces, it also came with issues of micromanagement, including complicated city-planning requirements such as building the right number of schools, theaters, libraries, bathhouses, and other amenities within suitable distances of residential areas.

Keywords

ancient rome
management
economy

Media

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Reception

According to Sierra On-Line, combined sales of Caesar and Caesar II surpassed 400,000 units by the end of March 1996.

In June 1993, Computer Gaming World recommended Caesar to SimCity fans who "wished for more buttons to push, knobs to adjust and wires to reroute". The magazine concluded that "Caesar provides that rare quality in strategy gaming — an experience whose rewards prove equal to its challenges ... [it] provides the serious player with a real lion's feast". A survey of pre-20th-century strategy games in the issue gave the game three-plus stars out of five, calling it "More of a game than a simulation, but it can be fun".