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SimLife

SimLife, a DOS game was released by the very talented group Maxis Software Inc. in 1992. Little did they know that they will end up making history. Play this game again here.

SimLife description

Interesting "biological" strategy with amazing freedom of choice and – forgive me the authors – with some orientation for lovers of all kinds of perversions.

In SimLife you can create your world – that world in the fullest sense of the words: our planet with its ecosystem (but it will have to consider!), their plants and animals, and when you create them you are only limited by your imagination. Well, of course, set some basic "pieces", but combine them as you like.

In practice, this means that. "Blank" is really existing terrestrial animals and plants. You (by editing their DNA [sounds great, right?]) can change the code of the physical traits of creatures and mix it with other codes, creating hybrids of all living beings with each other and also changing their size, habitat, diet and more. It really is POSSIBLE to create egg-laying kangaroo or a giant snail, which is the day eats a whole forest.

However, great attention is paid to the modeling environment when creating the world (and in the future, it is also possible to "edit") we can set the ratio of land and water on the planet, the average temperature, temperature cycles, the changing seasons, the relative humidity (also changing), depth of soil, etc., and all this will be interrelated with each other.

All this is done, apparently in order to eventually try to create such a world where natural conditions are those beings that live there, so they could survive and create a viable population. That is not enough to come up with some unprecedented thing – you also need to create for her a world where she could feed and multiply. So one should not assume the game is some kind of child's play. Please perverts with animals as you want, but then don't complain if your creatures die. Subverted also to the mind, and this is definitely a difficult task.

Graphically, the game is similar to other games in the series "Sim...". The special colors and abundance of objects do not have to wait, but what is drawn quite cute, albeit small. It is clear that read here will have more than watching anything.

Verdict – the best entertainment for those who always secretly dreamed of becoming a mad scientist and create unimaginable monsters, but for some reason did not. And besides – one of the first and most detailed "simulations of God" and very complicated, in fact, the game gives a huge scope for creativity and imagination to all lovers of strategies of this kind.

Have you ever wondered what kind of video games were played in the good old days? Try playing SimLife online now and we are sure you will not stop playing again.

Source: Archive.org, Mobygames.com

SimLife

Genre:
Simulation
Year:
1992
Publisher:
Maxis Software Inc.
Platform:
DOS
Developer:
Maxis Software Inc.
Perspective:
Top-down
Gameplay:
Managerial / Business Simulation