SimEarth: The Living Planet

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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" -- Traditional Chinese spelling
• "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.

DOS

Paul Varley (13)

Critic Reviews

Entertainment Weekly	SNES	Apr 02, 1993	A-	91
Entertainment Weekly	DOS	Jan 13, 1995	B+	83
PC-Spiele '92	DOS	1991	8 out of 10	80
Amiga Action	Amiga	Oct, 1992	80 out of 100	80
Joker Verlag präsentiert: Sonderheft	Amiga	1993	75 out of 100	75
Nintendo Life	Wii	Jun 23, 2009		60
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	TurboGrafx CD	Apr, 1993	20 out of 40	50
Amiga Power	Amiga	Sep, 1992	41 out of 100	41
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Wii	Jul 26, 2009	3 out of 10	30
Computer Gaming World (CGW)	Macintosh	Jan, 1991	Unscored	Unscored

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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.