This game is absolutely wonderful.  I can't think of how anyone could make another game of the same genre that would rival it.  You begin way back at the dawn of man.  You have just villagers & clubmen.  From there, you  size up & use your assets to your best advantage;  villagers can chop  wood for houses & buildings, mine gold for $$$$, mine stone for lookout  towers, fish, hunt, build stuff and...oh my.