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Real Time Strategy (RTS)Simulator Strategy

Populous: The Promised Lands

Bullfrog Productions · Imagineer

1989

Release

1989

Player score

Awaiting reviews

Platform families

Not announced

Connected releases

Core game only

Game data from IGDB

Editorial overview

Inside Populous: The Promised Lands

What it is

An expansion for the popular Bullfrog PC Strategy game, Populous. It was released in 1989 and added five new landscape types, and 500 maps for Conquest Mode.

Play styles

Single player · Multiplayer

Perspective

Third person · Bird view / Isometric

Themes

Fantasy · Business

Beyond this game

Content map

Everything connected to this release

DLC, expansions, editions, and bundles are different products. Each stays in its own lane so you always know what you are looking at.

Base-game relationship

Populous

This release depends on or extends the game above.

Production dossier

The complete game record

Cast, creators, hardware, release history, and the details that define how this game plays.

Who made it

Platforms

PC-9800 Series
Sharp X68000
Atari ST/STE
DOS
Amiga
Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD

Release history

Jul 06, 1990Sharp X68000
Jul 06, 1990PC-9800 Series
Oct 25, 1991Turbografx-16/PC Engine CD
1989Amiga
1989Atari ST/STE
1989DOS

Themes & modes

FantasyBusinessSingle playerMultiplayer