Populus (AppID: 3929800)
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A low-fantasy colony sim where you never command a single settler. Explore pricing history and player statistics for Populus.
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- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Intel HD 3000
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 / 11 (64-bit)
- Processor: Dual-core 3.0 GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated or modern iGPU with OpenGL 3.3 support
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (64-bit) or later
- Processor: Dual-core 2.0 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL 3.3 compatible GPU
- Storage: 200 MB available space
- OS: Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (64-bit)
- Processor: Dual-core 3.0 GHz
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: Dedicated GPU with Vulkan support
- Storage: 200 MB available space
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About This Game
A low-fantasy colony sim where you never command a single settler. Shape laws, set priorities, and watch an autonomous society build, trade, worship, and fight under your rule.
Detailed Description
Populus is a low-fantasy colony sim where you donβt control subjects directly. You set the rules, choose priorities, and build the conditions they live under. Your people act on their own, shaping the settlement with their choices.
Build industries, trade with the homeland, and expand your foothold in a land full of untapped resources and new opportunities. Every decision, taxes, policies, religion, military force, reshapes your growing society, influencing how people work, worship, and fight for their beliefs.
Indirect control: Issue orders and policies, let settlers act on their own judgment.
Dynamic society: Watch social classes, faiths, and factions emerge naturally.
Trade and politics: Develop industries, forge trade routes, balance economy and power.
Unscripted stories: A living colony that changes based on your leadership, not micro-management.
In Populus, you donβt play the settlers. You play the system that governs them.