buildings help further with building a strong economy and healthy village. Resources As well as the gold resource gained from selling the produce your villages create, the player must manage the health and happiness of their village. The health of the village is affected by the availability of food as well as how clean the village is; the more dead bodies left around from old aged villages dying - the more likely the village will catch the plague and so become an unhealthy place to live. Happiness is affected by several factors including the prices the player sets for certain produce, the tax set for when the village has trained a tax collector and the punishments set for when villagers are caught doing certain crimes. If a village is happier this affects the life span of villages meaning they age slower and take longer to go through their full life cycle. Reception Beasts and Bumpkins had a generally positive reception among reviewers. Some rated the game as low as 40/100 whilst the majority rated it as above 70/100. However, the lack of a multiplayer mode or a scenario editor, both features initially announced to be in the game, made very difficult for Beasts and Bumpkins to compete with hits like Warcraft II. The game was well known for its humor. All of the characters had a stereotypical English West Country accent. The comedy of the game has been attributed in user reviews to the villagers' sound bites, including the "Fancy a bit of nookie?" and "oww, yes please!" responses and has attributed to the entertainment value of the game. The game sold over 80,000 copies worldwide. Hidden features A hidden cheat menu and a script editor are available during the game. To access them, the user need to edit the original executable and press F11 while playing. External links References 1997 video games Video games with isometric graphics Real-time strategy video games Video games scored by James Hannigan Video games developed in the United Kingdom Windows games Windows-only games