: Your primary role is terraforming land to create flat areas for your followers to build huts. As they thrive, they generate mana, which you use to cast divine "Acts of God" like earthquakes, swamps, and floods to devastate rival tribes.

: The Populous GOG version includes the Promised Lands expansion and is validated for stability on modern Windows 10 and 11 systems. Populous: The Beginning: A New Perspective

: These titles are deeply nostalgic and strategic, though their repetitive nature and steep difficulty curves can be challenging for modern players.

Released in 1998, this third entry shifted from an omnipotent hand to a physical protagonist: the Shaman.