God game
Gods simulation refers to a computer game genre. Within these games, the player acts as a god (or in the case of Populous: The Beginning as a shaman ), where he has to lead a people to fame, wealth and / or autocracy usually. The interaction with these people often runs indirectly, by the God of the environment changes or a creature, such as a Giant ( Doshin the Giant ) commands.
The gods simulation is depending on the perspective a strategy game or a special form of economic simulation, although some features may deviate. For example, unlike in purely economic simulations belong to the gods simulations often acts of war to the game. Gods simulations are usually executed as real-time strategy games.
The first gods simulation Utopia is often called 1981 for the Intellivision, which is also regarded as the first economic simulation and a pioneer of real-time strategy.
Already Populous, which coined the gods simulation was also an early forerunner of the real-time strategy games, and also later gods simulations often assume a difficult to categorize middle position between these two games categories.