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The only control you have on your followers is that you put on a giant ankh anywhere on the map and tell your leader to go there (which subsequently your followers will follow suit) and also you can order them to attack the other followers. The objective in each level, like I said before, is to grow your followers and defeat the other god’s followers, but here’s the gist of the game: you don’t actually control your followers directly, but the world they’re in! What do I mean with this? Well, you can only control the terrain, the weather and your followers’ leader to an extent. To help the team visualise the gameplay, they used LEGO blocks.īut before looking at said gameplay, let’s first look at the covers, shall we?īut whatever the mode you choose, you end up in the main gameplay screen where you have an isometric view of the current world in the center, a book in the upper left corner that shows an overview of the world, an horizontal scale, a coat of arms in the upper right corner that shows your mana level and the followers’ info and several icons in both lower corners, the left with your commands and the right with the game’s options.Īlthough the icons are all pretty self-explanatory and the gameplay is somewhat intuitive, I still recommend reading the manual before playing to get a good idea of each icon and their function. And then, after increasing and reducing the terrain into flatland, the peeps were programmed to build houses that would grow in size the more flatland would be available to them. Peter Molyneux came up with the initial idea of Populous first by watching Glenn Corpes’ work and then by experimenting with the AI, in which small sprites (called “peeps” by Molyneux) travel through the land until they encountered water.

In 1992, it was ported to the Acorn 32-bit and the following year for the Macintosh.

In 1991, it was ported to the Master System and Turbografx-16. The following year, it was ported to the Genesis/Megadrive, PC-98, Sharp X68000 and the SNES/Super Nintendo. It was originally released in 1989 for the Amiga, Atari ST and DOS. Populous is a managerial/strategy game developed by Bullfrog and published by Electronic Arts. And it’s only fair that I start with Bullfrog’s first and possibly biggest success ever: Populous. Well, it isn’t too hard to figure out which Bullfrog game I’ll start reviewing for this retrospective.