This group collects the Interactive and Networked Media Landmarks subcategory's members whose own description names them a real-time or turn-based strategy game, a city-building, life-simulation or social-simulation game, spanning Civilization, StarCraft, Age of Empires and Warcraft: Orcs and Humans alongside SimCity, The Sims, Animal Crossing, FarmVille, Populous and the educational simulation The Oregon Trail. It is kept apart from this subcategory's Puzzle and Casual Games group by its members' emphasis on resource management and system-building over short-session mechanical challenge.
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Era of EmergenceThe Sumerian Game is described in the strategy source as an economic simulation strategy game, covering both sides of this bucket with one title. Browse By
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The Sumerian Game (1964), a text-based early mainframe game designed by Mabel Addis, based on the ancient Sumerian city-state of Lagash, was the first economic simulation game.
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