You can also try the new Hegemony game: Hegemony: Clash of the Ancients. It covers Celts, Etruscans, Greeks, Romans and Illyric Tribes.

Well, I'm Greek myself so that may be why I think Ancient Greece is overrated. My viewpoint comes from the fact that until the 20th century, eveyone sang the praises of Ancient Greece and forgot the other important Greek entity that was around for quite a while -the Byzantine Empire. "Byzantium" (I'm putting this in quotes because that wasn't the name people used at the time) not only maintained the ancient Greek civilization, but also enriched it with the christian values, which made the western civilization that much better, since the ancient Greek religion wasn't really all that moral. And then there are the Greeks of the early modern times, which strongly held these combined values even though they were conquered by the Turkish. I prefer then to see Greek history as a continuous development, and I think that it wasn't only Ancient Greece that mattered, but Byzantium too. In that vein, I think Byzantium is hugely underrated, and thus ancient Greece overrated by comparison. Both are important, but the importance of one is way more known than that of the other...

Already checked it in (along with Hegemony 2). My purse is not fat as famous King Croesus's :)

Yes, I understand what you're talking about. But I want to say that Βασιλεία τῶν Ῥωμαίων is really hugely underrated only in Western world, mainly due to Christianity Chasm and its consequences (and prerequisites too). Western world wants to forget (or to conceal) the role it had played in disastrous events of 1204 A.D., and the immense influence those events have had on the history of European civilization.

On the contrary, we here, in Russia, tend to keep the memory of our mutual history, we do remember whence our faith came, whence even our very cyrillic writing came from, whose heirs Russian tzars considered themselves, and the best books about history of Byzantine Empire have been written and are written namely in Russia.

And don't forget the prophecies of Paisios Agioreitis about the future of Greece and Constantinopolis and the role that Russia shall play in it.

Sorry, I forgot to mention that I look only for PC games.

Hannibal: Rome and Carthage in the Second Punic War - there is a demo.

It's in the starting post.

Yes, I do know this title, and it looks very interesting and stylish, but price is too steep for me, Slitherine doesn't know what 'regional pricing' is, alas :)

My bad, I read through it and forgot when I was thinking of some suggestions.

Grand Ages: Rome a very much underrated city builder and conquest game.

Also one of the reasons why Grand Ages: Medieval failed since everybody was expecting a city builder.

I wonder why Grand Ages: Rome isn't yet on gog.

https://ru.gamersgate.com/DD-GAR-STEAM/grand-ages-rome-gold-edition

https://ru.gamersgate.com/DD-GAR--STEAM/grand-ages-rome

I can't realize what are these ^ games? The name is the same but screenshots are very different.

And description says there is a prequel - Imperium Romanum that looks quite decent too.

But howbeit they all are Steam-venomed... I prefer to stay pure of this sickness.

You mentionned Hegemony. The other 2 games in the series are worth mentioning as well (Hegemony Rome & Hegemony III)

Otherwise nice list.

0 A.D. ?





The latter is the initial game. The former is the revised version, including the Age of Augustus "expansion" ( read : revision ) pack.

You can also get them still on dvds like I got it.

There's also a Game Boy version (though I have only played the NES one).

Edit: Watching part of a video of the GB version, the first thing that becomes apparent is that the sound design in the Game Boy version is horrible; the music seems to be missing its harmony (yet they still insist on including the percussion line), and the sound effects are obnoxious.