Un buon RTS molto simile, per chi li ha giocati, ai primi The Settlers.

È decisamente complesso da gestire, con molte strutture, molte professioni da ssegnare ad una ad una ad ogni abitante della cittadina che vi accingerete a creare, spesso in conseguenza di una certa esperienza acquisita dall'abitante in altre prfessioni affini. Un esempio: il ceramista deve prima essere stato un raccoglitore d'argilla ed avere ottenuto una discreta esperienza in questo campo per essere assegnato al laboratorio corrispondente e stesso discorso vale per falegnami, panettieri, ecc.

Lo stesso aspetto della generazione della forza lavoro è tutto a vostra completa discrezione: avrete possibilità di far sposare le persone, di assegnare loro un'abitazione, di decidere il momento più opportuno per... diciamo... aumentare la vostra popolazione e decidere il sesso e di conseguenza l'utilità di ogni nuovo arrivo.

E questi sono solo i primi punti di difficoltà ed al contempo di interesse che caratterizzano il gioco che mi siano venuti in mente. Ci sarebbe materiale per scriverne ulteriormente, a dire la verità: la gestione delle risorse, i cartelli per indicare la strada ai vostri abitanti... Insomma, non esattamente un gioco per tutti: ci vuole pazienza (tanta), soptattutto all'inizio per imparare a gestire al meglio il tutto e ci sono alcuni... Tempi morti che potrebbero infastidire alle volte (e qui viene in aiuto la possibilità di aumentare la velocità dello scorrere del tempo).

Una volta fatta la mano (anche grazie ai tutorial studiati abbastanza bene), l'esperienza diventa sicuramente godibile e appagante.

P.s. Funziona perfettamente su windows 10 professional 64bit e scheda grafica Nvidia 540m.

Bello bello bello; mi ricordo ancora quante ore ci ho passato sopra in epoca pre-steam...
Però al giorno d'oggi risente veramente tanto del passare degli anni.
Andrebbe giocato solo per cultura, perchè è stato un gran titolo e vale la pena rispolverarlo.

Un gioco che ricorda l'infanzia. Bello, avvincente, con una storia coinvolgente alle spalle. Lo conoscevo già. felice di riaverlo.

Molto bella e complessa la parte gestionale, un pò meno quella dedicata al combattimento che risulta piuttosto semplice. Carina la campagna.

Brilliant, underrated game.

This was my first game ever played. I perfectly remember how amazing the simulation and the city building was. Not even Settlers had the intricacies that Cultures has.

This is presumably the 2'nd game in the Cultures series although not shown explicitly anywhere. I did not find the original around, unless taking the GOG version.

This is the ultimate society simulation and city building strategy game. People live, work, die - of old age, hunger. Each person has a profession. The game also involved standard resource collection but needs specified buildings to produce certain goods/tools.
There is also war, combat. It's not terribly complicated, but diplomacy with other people, micromanagement plays a huge role.

There is an interesting multiplayer mode. Today it won't hurt to use Hamachi or GameRanger to make it work.
The game is totally worth it if you like Black & White or The Settlers series. Games aren't made anymore like this. It's a niche that is appropriately maintained by this old clascic.

Great Odin's beard; it's Cultures!

NOTE: I have not played much on Steam, but I played the Cultures games a LOT back in the day.

The Cultures series of strategy/city-builder or "society simulator" games were made by three of the guys from Blue Byte who were part of the design and creation of The Settlers/Die Siedler II: Veni, Vidi, Vici. Enough said! Regarded by many city-builder fans as the spiritual successor to the original Setters series; while I did enjoy Settlers 3 and 4 I feel that these were much better games. It's very similar to those however, albeit with a much more personal touch. From the micromanagement of the workers and people (e.g. you have to breed them and provide living spaces close to workplaces) and the RPG-ish elements (workers skill-up and professions/technologies are branching) along with a story-driven campaign, this under-rated classic is an absolute must-have for any fan of the city-builder style of strategy games.

Pros:
- Vikings!
- Excellent micromanagement
- Decent 2D/sprite graphics that still look great today (despite being over ten years old you can still use 1080p resolution and the UI scales well)
- Random banter and social dynamics of your little virtual Vikings; you actually care about each and every one
- Detailed progression of technology/professions
- Decent-enough story line to keep you engaged
- Roads (not required for transport but beneficial), singposts, trade routes and remote settlements on large maps
- Ships!
- Can suck you in for hours at a time...

Cons:
- ...can suck you in for hours at a time ;)
- Can get a little repetitive if you don't care about storylines
- Warfare can be a bit tedious and difficult (especially because it really hurts when just one of your soldiers are killed in battle *sob*)

Casual game. Is entertaining and long enough. Is old, but still looks fine. Some stuff is funny. Nothing is really hard and there's always a fastest way to win, instead of doing all the grind. That's nice, but also becomes at times futile. Nevertheless is good value for the buck. No bugs, no crashes. Simple story, but is fine. Nothing here is great strategy, just managment and relaxed combat with some enjoyable humor.

Works Perfectly for me on Win10 sounds, graphics, resolution (1080) and the window scrolling is smooth.
Big favourite of old times. I wish someday they will make a new version of this game. It has a bit slow gameplay you have to take care of literally everything but i totaly love it.

Its strange for me that you guys have problem i have nothing special on my PC i just keep my drivers up to date.

Grew up playing it, had the CD version. Literally cried when I've misplaced the disk. 10/10, one of the best games I've ever played. It aged really well, too.

The game i played in my childhood, My English and logic wasnt enough to complete the campaing.Now i bought the game and completed the campaing.What a game, it really feels good building your village and keeping your villagers happy.It took 22 hours to complete campaing.I enjoyed and worth every second of it.