Game:

Populous II: Trials of the Olympian Gods (1991)

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You play a god, gaming against other gods in a celestial game of conquest. To win, you must
help your chosen people take over the world and wipe out the vermin who worship that other
god.

Each god starts out with a single human, dumped into the middle of the wilderness. Sometimes
there is inhabitable land in sight, sometimes not. To get a chance to win, you must change the
landscape, creating flat land for your followers to build on. The more followers you have, the
more powerful you will be, so take care of them. Build as fast as you can, because the other god is
doing the same.

When you have enough followers, you can make the leader of your people into a hero. He will
then go around the land you have built, literally taking strength from the people into himself, and
working his way toward the enemy. When he gets there, he will engage in holy warfare upon your
enemy's people. He will burn; he will kill. And he won't stop until they're all dead... or he is.

But you don't have to let your people have all the fun; the gods have other tools as well. You can
drown your enemies one at a time with your land lowering powers, submerge their towns in
swamps, or raise a volcano in the middle of their best farmland. Even better, you can flood the
land and drain all the people who didn't build on high ground.

And when you win, you'll have 500 more worlds to conquer. A god's play is just never done.

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