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Populus (1998) & "god games"
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The obvious answer would be Black & White and its sequel, which for many is the definitive god game. You're an untouchable god interacting with your world and physically manipulating it with your hand, but you also have a giant animal familiar that you raise to also interact with the people. You create miracles and either help or terrorize the population into following you. Not much combat if that's what you're looking for, but it's a unique game that unfortunately has not seen a worthy successor in 20+ years.
Agreed. Still waiting on a Black and White 2 spiritual sucessor, that game is still unmatched in its weird little genre. It definitely scratches a unique itch.
They're working on an open source version of the first one.
But I'm also waiting on a spiritual successor of the Black & White games. I loved them!
Edit: I mean, there's Universim which is quite fun as well, but it's not B&W.