Zeus: Master of Olympus is a city-building strategy game developed by Impressions Games and released in 2000 for PC. The fifth entry in the City Building Series, it tasks players with founding and expanding ancient Greek city-states from a modest plot of land on the Aegean coast. Core gameplay involves laying roads, constructing civic and religious buildings, managing taxation and trade, and raising armies and naval forces to wage war against neighboring cities or compel them into vassalage. Defeat can result in paying tribute until independence is reclaimed. Built on a revised version of the Caesar III engine, the game introduces separated common and elite housing districts and more detailed citizen walkers. Players can also construct large sanctuaries and stadiums, summon mythological heroes to combat monsters and plagues, and seek favor from the Greek gods. An expansion, Poseidon, later added the civilization of Atlantis as an additional setting.
