Yeah me too! Especially the second game was my favorite as a kid! Did you know that the soundtrack was made by the same dude who made the Skyrim Soundtrack later?

Didn't know THAT was a thing. Not gonna lie it looks pretty rad.

Sims medieval is such a banger.

I was there, I bought it too. At release it was already dumbed down so much that it did not live up to the expectations from the tech demos.

Thrive is very much a spiritual successor to those tech demos.

I was surprised to not see The Sims: Making Magic when I saw that. Figured it would have been up their alley

I don’t think I ever got passed the training in black and white but I liked the game.

The Sims Medieval is a weird game. It's barely a Sims game in the sense that you create characters, can edit the character's homes a bit, and the characters have needs you need to take care of.

But it's actually this weird RPG-like game where the characters play parts in stories and ongoing narrative. Basically you create characters for specific roles, and pick mini-stories to play through. Kind of hard to explain.

Also it's running on The Sims 3 engine so it's full of jank from the get-go, and it's basically unsupported by EA, and - and! - delisted from Steam in favour of Origin/EA app.

Played it just the other day. Can’t wait until it’s finished. So far I got to the terrestrial blob stage.

I have quite a few thousand hours in that game, of which about 900-1000 was on vatsim trying to get into a virtual airline. Tempted to get it to run again.

What's the game like?

Its like a blend of Populus and Creatures.

Youre a god and have to look after your villagers (or torture them into submission/worship) and keep them safe from a rival god, the more villagers you have the more belief (mana) you get, and you've got a giant creature as a pet that learns from you to help.

I got annoyed with a quest and threw the quest-giver-villagers into the sea. My pet saw me do that and decided thats what we should do. He went back and forth from the village throwing every villager into the sea one by one and completely destroyed my run.

10/10 experience.

All I found was 15 year old documentation, broken hard drives, and bulldog clips when I did mine.