Recommendations for something else to play

[Strauss]

Another of the Impressions city building games is Master of Olympus: Zeus (and Master of Atlantis: Poseidon), set in Greek mythology and taken less seriously.

I also enjoyed that game back in 2000, but I had the warez version (sorry, but I was 11) so I was never able to save my progress. It turns out I can actually still order it quite easily online so I'll be doing that when I have time to play it.