SimEarth: The Living Planet (DOS)

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Description

SimEarth puts you in charge of an entire planet throughout its 10 billion year lifespan. Your ultimate task is to guide the planet’s inhabitants into the stars, from its humble single-celled roots.

The main threats you face include pollution, disease, famine, war and global warming. The controls available to you include the chance to move mountains and continents, creating different levels of species, and unleash tidal waves and earthquakes so as to reshape your planet. All of these things take from your limited energy, which must be replenished.

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Alternate Titles

• "模擬地球" -- Chinese spelling (traditional)
• "SimEarth: Der lebende Planet" -- German title
• "Sim Earth" -- Alternate spelling
• "シムアース" -- Japanese spelling

Part of the Following Groups

• Genre: Simulation - Animal life / Biological
• Maxis Sim series

User Reviews

Best. Manual. Ever.

Paul Varley (13)

Critic Reviews

PC Leisure	Nov, 1990		100
The One	Dec, 1990	95 out of 100	95
Raze	Jun, 1991	91 out of 100	91
Play Time	May, 1991	89 out of 100	89
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Nov, 1990	10.4 out of 12	87
Power Play	Jun, 1991	87 out of 100	87
Entertainment Weekly	Jan 13, 1995	B+	83
PC-Spiele '92	1991	8 out of 10	80
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	1993	75 out of 100	75

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Trivia

The Amiga version of the game was released in the Maxis Classic reissue box, even though it was a full price title, due to being released nearly 2 years after the PC version. Sim Ant was the same.