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

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

User Reviews

Best. Manual. Ever.

DOS

Paul Varley (13)

Critic Reviews

Raze	DOS	Jun, 1991	91 out of 100	91
Play Time	DOS	May, 1991	89 out of 100	89
Power Play	DOS	Jun, 1991	87 out of 100	87
Power Play	Macintosh	Feb, 1991	87 out of 100	87
Play Time	SNES	Apr, 1993	72 out of 100	72
Amiga Force	Amiga	Oct, 1993	68 out of 100	68
Electronic Gaming Monthly (EGM)	SNES	Mar, 1993	25 out of 40	62
Nintendo Life	Wii	Jun 23, 2009		60
Amiga Power	Amiga	Sep, 1992	41 out of 100	41
Super Play (UK)	SNES	Jun, 1993	34 out of 100	34

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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.