Your opinion: the best Empire Building game?

Hi dudes!

Recommend me empire building strategy games. For long time I had been playing games such as Age of Empires, Empire Earth, Battle for Middle-Earth etc etc etc - but for now I wan´t just built a nice Empire. Of course there CAN be troops and the army side in the game, but a possibility to choose just building an empire.

For a couple of days I have been playing Caesar III - which is very good.

What´s your opinion? What´s the best empire building game? Why?

Thanks a lot :)

I can't remember the name of the game, but there was an Ancient Egypt based game that came out with solid city-building a few years back, I think it was called....Nile?

Edit: Children of the Nile

Pharaoh and Master of Olympus: Zeus are good city building games, although both have warfare to some extent and are slightly outdated in graphic standards.

I can't remember the name of the game, but there was an Ancient Egypt based game that came out with solid city-building a few years back, I think it was called....Nile?

Edit: Children of the Nile

YourOldFriend

It was called Pharaoh and the greek spin off was called Zeus. Also there is Caesar. Caesar is the most popular one because Pharaoh and Zeus do not have sequels but Caesar does.

Great answers from all of you guys!

Total War series games are too much war based - but I will remember them... after my empire building phase :twisted:

civilization 4 and the expansions. AMAZING game. One of the best strategy titles ever made. A little slow paced, but the empire building is absolutely addicting/super fun and VERY in depth.IMaBIOHAZARD

But what about the prequels in the serie? Which the best one? (I´m thinking about the third one...)

 

Pharaoh and Master of Olympus: Zeus are good city building games, although both have warfare to some extent and are slightly outdated in graphic standards.

Kolossi

Graphichs doesn´t mean anything. If the game is good, it´s good without super hyper ultra blaster graphics. That´s 110 % true and that´s why I´m not bothered when playing games such as Age of Empires (I & II), Empire Earth, Caesar III, Starcraft etc etc...

Master of Olympus looks interesting - I will check it out if I can find it.

civilization 4 and the expansions. AMAZING game. One of the best strategy titles ever made. A little slow paced, but the empire building is absolutely addicting/super fun and VERY in depth.IMaBIOHAZARD

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri beats the Civilization series, tbh. I just started playing it a few months back, and it surpasses all other TBS games in complexity, depth, interesting subject matter, voice acting, those lovely quotes with each research topic, characters, etc.F1_2004

Right on! Alpha Centauri was way better than Civs. It's ashame that the expansion never went far.

Another great empire building game would be Sins of a Solar Empire.

Civilization IV

Total War series.

:D

The best empire building game is the one i've been fantasizing about in my head for years, pity it's probably still too far ahead of its time to be developed in any practical sense.DucksBrains

civ games, total war games, glory of the roman empire was ok.

GalCiv II : Dead Lords + Dark Avatar expansion.Vfanek

This.

Sins of a Solar Empire is pretty good if you want something a bit faster paced.

Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Alpha_Centauri

Good topic. It definitely gave me a lot of ideas for games to try. Thanks!Frantz22