Utopia - The Creation of a Nation
1994
Utopia takes the Sim City gameplay concept and adds
a military element to it. The game is set in the distant
future, where your job is nothing less than Colony Administrator
for a new settlement on some far-flung planet. Your aim
is to provide the highest Quality of Life rating for the
colonists. You do so by ensuring that there is enough life
support, power, housing, employment, police and entertainment
to keep the citizens of your colony happy. Hindering your
goal are random events such as solar eclipses (which can
render your solar panels inactive) and also a different,
hostile alien race that inhabits the planets in the many
scenarios at offer. Not only do you have to be a good mayor
but you also have to be a good general. Resources must not
only be attributed to civilian research but into weapons
research, intelligence and the building of tanks and spaceships,
if you wish to survive long enough to see your colony flourish
into a metropolis. As a rule, you will have built a strong
colony before the aliens come, but the final push towards
a QOL of 80% or higher can only be achieved once there is
no outside threat.