The Sumerian Game

Un gioco gratuito che oltre ad essere molto divertente (provare per credere) è gratis e vi insegna anche qualcosa, cosa si può volere di più? Ovviamente consigliatissimo, dategli una chance e non ve ne pentirete!!!

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Excited to play this game brought back to life!

Amazing, I can't believe this legendary game is playable once more! I highly recommend people try it, it's a must for anyone passionate about computer game history!

"The Sumerian Game" is slightly more than meets the eye, but not much. This museum piece is a recreation of a primitive 1960's mainframe (yes, mainframe) kingdom simulator. The game was made for students as a proof of concept. Really, all this does is track a few variables in a looping cycle of "turns" where you distribute grain and do other basic things as the mainframe tracks a few variables. Now, in the mid 20's, the game is back... and while this is a fascinating bit of computer history, at the same time there's a requirement to review this as a game (because it's on the Steam store) and whether people in the 20's should be downloading it and playing it 60 years later. The answer is no. What do you do in the game? As mentioned you're just typing in some numbers like how much grain to keep for seed and how much to let people eat. There's no value as a real PC game in 2025, and as a historical piece this would have perhaps been better done up as a web page and enshrined in the Internet Archive. To quote Indiana Jones, "That belongs in a museum". And, seriously, this is of enough quality to warrant being put on show in a museum. Competing on the same platform with Counter-Strike 2, however, not so much. The graphics aren't great, it's just a text only game (it's 2025, come on). That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. This is only free in a rudimentary sense... the developer has their hand out for a $10 USD "donation" for this as you're expected to buy some extra DLC from Steam... digital panhandling. Like the homeless guys who splash dirty water on your windscreen at the traffic lights. No thanks. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 12 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough. I do however hope this does properly get enshrined as a historical artifact somewhere more appropriate.

this game resurfaced to life thanks to the huge research work from the developer, we can experience authentically what computer games were at the dawn of this technology

I'm glad I was made aware of this, cause I think it's really cool to recover a piece of old computer history! The base game itself is definitely simple, although it's not easy to maintain the city. I haven't delved too far into the Supporter Pack materials, but I think it's worth it to buy the Supporter Pack just as a show of support for projects like this!

Only 2k24 steam release I played so... a very good project that is worth supporting btw [spoiler]waiting for updates[/spoiler]