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" -- 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.

DOS

Paul Varley (13)

Critic Reviews

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Power Play	DOS	Jun, 1991	87 out of 100	87
ASM (Aktueller Software Markt)	Windows 3.x	Jan, 1993	10 out of 12	83
Amiga Joker	Amiga	Oct, 1992	81 out of 100	81
Amiga Action	Amiga	Oct, 1992	80 out of 100	80
PC-Spiele '92	DOS	1991	8 out of 10	80
All Game Guide	Macintosh	1998		80
Play Time	SNES	Apr, 1993	72 out of 100	72
Amiga Power	Amiga	Sep, 1992	41 out of 100	41
Eurogamer.net (UK)	Wii	Jul 26, 2009	3 out of 10	30

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Trivia

The PC version of SimEarth took approximately 23,500 hours to program.