The game focuses on urban planning, economics, and resource management.
You can play the campaign or start your own city, choosing between several maps and difficulty levels.
- Begin with a small settlement near a river. Your citizens will grow their own food and find the products they need at the first market stalls.
- Build a temple and hire priests to increase your religious influence and attract new citizens.
- Pay the salaries of your workers with crops from your own fields.
- Build walls. The game has no warfare or attacks, but walls are required to construct certain buildings and to level up the houses.
- Help your citizens achieve a balance between farmers, artisans, and vendors while considering your own needs of workers for the State.
- Increase your agricultural areas with irrigation canals.
- Provide services like Water, Security, Health and Beautification, and your citizens will reach a higher standard of living.
- Improve your economy with manufacturing buildings, better transportation, storage, trading, and profit.
- Build palaces, gardens, temples, and a great ziggurat.
- Research new technologies to unlock buildings and create new trade routes.
