Zeus + Poseidon

Zeus + Poseidon delivers hundreds of hours of gameplay in one game!

Zeus + Poseidon is a city builder, strategy and colony sim game developed by Impressions Games and published by Activision.
Released on December 15th 2016 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,666 reviews of which 1,602 were positive and 64 were negative resulting in an impressive rating of 9.1 out of 10. 😍

The game is currently priced at 4.99€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified Zeus + Poseidon into these genres:

City Builder Strategy Colony Sim Mythology Classic Singleplayer Historical Simulation Isometric Retro Economy Resource Management Management

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP / Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
Processor: 1.8 GHz
Memory: 512 MB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 7 Compatible 3D Card
DirectX: Version 7.0
Storage: 2 GB available space
Sound Card: Direct X Compatible

Reviews

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Nov. 2024

If you're tired of modern flops like Skylines 2 and would like to get into old school city builders, Zeus is the best for this. There's a lot of quality of life and streamlining in this one compared to Caesar and Pharaoh - you no longer have to place housing near workplaces; there's no longer a dozen needs to satisfy; you can now place neat roadblocks which limit where your walkers can go, allowing you to shape up districts nicely. Some may call it casual, but to me it's fun and ensures I can actually complete adventures before it gets too boring and tedious. The main feature of Zeus is its mythological flavor, which the setting of Ancient Greece perfectly lends itself to. It takes the monument building found in Pharaoh and makes it 10 times more exciting by adding actual gods that walk around your city and confer powerful bonuses. There are also heroes and monsters, and all of them can be your enemy or ally. The world map/diplomacy has also been improved, allowing you to raid your neighbours for resources, conquer them for tribute, ask favors and, of course, trade with them. Some scenarios let you found colonies, which places a new city on the map after you build it up. It is not without flaws, however. Most are due to its old age - you will need to find and install the widescreen resolution fix (1280x720 works best in my experience) and an animation fix for the widescreen fix... yeah. That aside, there are some old bugs that were never fixed as well as some flaws from the game design perspective. For example, invading monsters can be either crippling if they block a critical resource deposit, or trivial if they're placed somewhere you'd never think to build anyway. Same goes for gods - their attacks can be super annoying, their bonuses can get repetitive, like there's 3 of them who add more food to your granaries, while some are too worthless to consider. World map can be trivialized by repeatedly raiding your weak rival to death, solving the economy while improving the relationship with every other rival in the process. If you don't like the existing scenarios, you can make your own - with city maps, events, winning conditions, the whole thing. However, I never had the patience for this, and it feels difficult to get it right. For example, setting up tribute cities pay is a great balancing act - too little and it doesn't change how you play at all, too much and it trivializes your economy. And have too many cities paying tribute - and you get spammed with messages at the beginning of each year. Zeus would be the perfect game to remake, improving on game design and adding some modern features like blueprints, however the problem is I'm not at all confident in the ability of modern gamemakers to do that. Pharaoh New Era was somehow remade to be worse than the original, and Citadelium, while nominally inspired by some of Zeus' features, made me cringe when I saw my Roman trade advisor being a black woman named Fabia... So even with all its flaws, to me Zeus continues to be the best city-builder humankind ever created, being just the right mix of complexity, immersiveness and fun.

Sept. 2024

A game from my childhood that for me is screaming out for a faithful remake to allow for modern gamers to enjoy this wonderful game. You can of course download patches for better resolutions. But if this was to be remade with the current gen in mind, it would be a wonderful step for this gaming classic. The recent release of Age of Mythology: Retold showed how good a faithful remake can be. So I truly hope to see this remade with the same dedication in the future. As it stands, gameplay is fantastic as it ever was. The game offers a fun challenge to the city building genre, thanks in part to the element of events occuring such as God invasions or Enemy City invasions. being able to create a working city with epic temples is always a plus. I'd love somewhere down the line to see an expanded universe in the style of Zeus, introducing additional pantheons, the addition of Atlantis with the Posiedon expansion was great, but if this gameplay could be expanded to include the gods of Egypt, or even a reskinned version of our current gods as they were for the Romans. It would be for me a welcome addition to an excellent game. I'd recommend this to anyone who loves Greek mythology and city building games. This has been a staple of my gaming history from when I first played it back in the early 2000s, to playing it now in 2024.

May 2024

Zeus was the third of Sierra's classic city-builders, along with Caesar and Pharaoh, and I enjoyed them all. Each is a bit different. This one is perhaps a bit whimsical. The Steam re-release is just as good as my memories and well worth the cost.

April 2024

Zeus + Poseidon is one of my favorite games of all time. I played when I was younger when I had the physical copy on CD-ROM. The disc I had only included Zeus, so getting this game on Steam with the addition of Poseidon allowed me to feel excited for new content while still ensuring I would be able to play the game I loved as a kid. I wouldn't consider myself a huge city builder genre fan, but the historical background and story behind this game make it unique in my opinion. If you consider yourself a Greek mythology fan, I think you have to have this game. It is my most played game on Steam, and that's not counting the hundreds of hours I played back when I had it as a CD. Some tips: The HeavenGames forum has a section for players to post their own custom adventures for other players to download. This is one of the best features of the game and these campaigns can add hundreds of hours of unique campaigns/content to the base game. It's absolutely insane to me that this game only costs $10 and I have more play time than a dozen other games I love combined. I can't promise that the nostalgia aspect of the game has something to do with my fondness for it, but I think that anyone can fall in love with this game. There's a lot of humor/ cultural references in the game that really make it entertaining and unique. This will always be one of my favorite games and in an era where new games are competing to have the best visuals, performance, and story, this game remains reliable throughout the years

April 2024

My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you’ll be happy. If not, you become a Philosopher.

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-50% 9.99€ 4.99€

9.1

1,602

Online players

152

Developer

Impressions Games

Publisher

Activision

Release 15 Dec 2016

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