Utopia: The Creation of a Nation

Released1991

Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Atari ST/STE
DOS
Amiga
Super Famicom

About

Utopia takes the Sim City gameplay concept and adds a military element to it. The game is set in the distant future, where your job is nothing less than Colony Administrator for a new settlement on some far-flung planet. Your aim is to provide the highest Quality of Life rating for the colonists. You do so by ensuring that there is enough life support, power, housing, employment, police and entertainment to keep the citizens of your colony happy. Hindering your goal are random events such as solar eclipses (which can render your solar panels inactive) and also a different, hostile alien race that inhabits the planets in the many scenarios at offer. Not only do you have to be a good mayor but you also have to be a good general. Resources must not only be attributed to civilian research but into weapons research, intelligence and the building of tanks and spaceships, if you wish to survive long enough to see your colony flourish into a metropolis. As a rule, you will have built a strong colony before the aliens come, but the final push towards a QOL of 80% or higher can only be achieved once there is no outside threat.

Developer: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., Celestial Software
Publisher: Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd., Gremlin Interactive, GBH Gold, Konami, Jaleco, Epic/Sony Records, GameTek, Inc.
Genres: Simulator, Strategy
Themes: Science fiction
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Bird view / Isometric
IGDB rating: 80 / 100 (7 ratings)
Also known as: Utopia

Release dates

Release dates by platform
Platform	Release
Amiga	1991 · Europe1992 · North America
Atari ST/STE	1991
DOS	1992 · North America1995 · Europe
Super Famicom	Oct 29, 1993
Super Nintendo Entertainment System	September 1993 · North America1994 · Europe