You know, this game just randomly popped into my head a couple of days ago, and it was just driving me nuts that I couldn't remember what it was called. So after I wrote that post I went to bed, and when I woke up in the morning I remembered the name all of a sudden. It's called Millennia: Altered Destinies. It's a 1995 game from Take 2 Interactive. I even managed to find a place that still had it.. [removed link] - sold game ~Luchsen
And it seems to run very well in XP under dosbox. This is truly one of the most original games out there. And it is pretty obscure too, I remember it wasn't a big hit at all when it came out, and I just found it randomly floating around a BBS. This game's a real brainteaser, and it's got quite a twist with the time travel bit. Much of the dialogue is pretty funny. And there is a perverse sense of pleasure you get from guiding a race of people, living on an cold icy world for thousands of years. Guiding them all the way up to the brink of space travel, only to then go back in time and erase the invention of fire from their history and watch them disappear real quick. It's not as easy game, but once you start thinking in 4 dimensions you get the hang of it eventually. I'd definitely recommend it to anyone.
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