New city-building game Memoriapolis feels like Manor Lords in Ancient Rome

I always wondered how the advisors in SimCity actually decided on their advice. You could never make them happy. They'd complain about the lack of a fire station, for example, and so you'd build a fire station. But then they'd be on your back about how the fire station doesn't cover the town's whole fire radius. And then it would be wages for the firefighters. And then a second fire station. Such is the eternal, municipal nightmare of city-building games. But Memoriapolis, freshly arrived from early access into its full 1.0 form, lets you take a direct, if morally dubious, role in politics. If you like Manor Lords and Cities Skylines 2, but also long for the gleaming marble of Ancient Rome, this is well worth a try.

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