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Populous: The Promised Lands - Play Online

DOS - 1989
Also available on: Amiga - Atari ST - Sharp X68000

For small DOS games like Populous: The Promised Lands, you can play online immediately with your browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Edge, Opera...). This feature is experimental, the game may not work properly.

Warning: game save should work, but you should try it early! Also, be careful to select the right game executable in the list above.

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Planet 12 Mar. 2020

Bob you just need to flatten out the land for your people to make them stronger. the AI is slower at that.

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BOB 01 Nov. 2019

Terrible game. don't bother your time with it. the AI produces more people then you, faster than you. it always wins battles, has better tech than you, moves faster than you, responds faster than you and is simply better than you in every single way.

the game is pointless, you cannot even get past the first level. doesn't matter what you do, the enemy is always more numerous, stronger and faster than you. and as it always wins the battles you CANNOT win

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Macce 31 Oct. 2018

The first game i ever played on the AMiga, My neighbour had an amiga and we played Populous, Pirates , supercars ii, Defender of the crown, F/a 18 Interceptor for countless hours

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