Utopia: The Creation of a Nation

Utopia takes the game concept of Sim City and adds a military element to it. The game is set in the distant future, where your job is nothing less than colony administrator for a new settlement on a distant planet. Your goal is to achieve the highest quality of life for the colonists. To do this, you ensure that there are enough resources, energy, housing, jobs, police and entertainment to keep the citizens of your colony happy. Standing in the way of your goal are random events such as solar eclipses (which can render your solar panels useless) and also another hostile alien race that inhabits the planets in the many scenarios on offer. You not only have to be a good mayor, but also a good general. Resources must be put not only into civilian research, but also into weapons research, intelligence and the building of tanks and spaceships if you want to survive long enough to see your colony blossom into a metropolis. Generally, you will have built up a strong colony before the aliens arrive, but the final push towards a quality of life of 80% or more can only be achieved when there is no outside threat.