History VideoGame / Caesar

* VendorTrash: A good deal of your income in the early game comes from opening a trade route and exporting surplus supplies of one kind or another, and depending on the scenario, some of those supplies may be useless to you. In peaceful scenarios, Weapons are going to be your top seller, as you can't build forts anyway.

* UpdatedRerelease: ''Caesar Gold'' incorporated the tactical warfare engine from another Impression Games release (Cohort) to play the battles. This was carried over to ''Caesar II''. From ''Caesar III'' onwards the defensive battles are fought directly in the city without any change and the rest happen offscreen.

* ManualMisprint: The infamous [[https://i.imgur.com/OeXtg49.png "what the hell is this shit"]] in the manual for ''Caesar III''.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: ''Caesar III'' is less NintendoHard than its predecessor. The spinoffs are in turn more manageable with the addition of roadblocks for walker control.

* GameMod: ''III'' has ''Julius''. For the most part, it's hardly even a mod, but rather an extensive unofficial patch, fixing all sort of bugs, functionality issues and problems with game logic. However, it is mostly know for porting roadblocks from ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}''[[note]]There are also other mechanics ported from ''[[VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus Zeus]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom Emperor]]'', like global workforce[[/note]], thus solving the nightmarish pathfinding issues vanilla ''Caesar III'' suffers from. It only took 22 years.

* GameMod: ''III'' has ''Julius''. For the most part, it's hardly even a mod, but rather an extensive unofficial patch, fixing all sort of bugs, functionality issues and problems with game logic. However, it is mostly know for porting roadblocks from ''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}''[[note]]There are also other mechanics ported from ''[[VideoGame/ZeusMasterOfOlympus Zeus]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom Emperor]]'', like global workforce[[/note], thus solving the nightmarish pathfinding issues vanilla ''Caesar III'' suffers from. It only took 22 years.

* VendorTrash: A good deal of your income in the early game comes from opening a trade route and exporting surplus supplies of one kind or another, and depending on the scenario, some of those supplies may be useless to you.

*** This is an (unintentional) nod to how the actual city planning (or lackthereof) of Rome itself was; the road network was absolutely nonsensical. That being said, they did a ''much'' better job with the provinces, which the player is in charge of building up...

The high-water mark of the saga is considered to be ''Caesar III'', which spawned several and gradually improved {{spinoff}}s in AncientEgypt (''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}''), UsefulNotes/AncientGreece (''Zeus'') and China (''VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom'').

The high-water mark of the saga is considered to be ''Caesar III'', which spawned several and gradually improved {{spinoff}}s in AncientEgypt (''VideoGame/{{Pharaoh}}''), AncientGreece (''Zeus'') and China (''VideoGame/EmperorRiseOfTheMiddleKingdom'').

* ShownTheirWork: With the tax settings. Rome did not care how much 'over' the required amount you were able to tax a populace, and was happy to let you keep the surplus. They also did not care from whom you collected the tax, only that you did. Thus, the "loot and scoot" strategy and most of the finicky tax settings are historically accurate (as well as being able to pay yourself whatever you wanted.)
* ShoutOut:
** "[[Film/{{Aliens}} Another day in the legion is like a day on the farm.]]"
** "[[UsefulNotes/NavySeals The only easy day was yesterday.]]"

* RecycledInSpace: Described as ''Videogame/SimCity'' in AncientRome with a historical and military layer added. The {{spinoff}}s can be recursively defined as Caesar in Egypt/Greece/China!

* DevelopersForesight: In ''Caesar III'', if the map's Prosperity goal requires that your housing be at Insulae or higher level, there is always at least one trade route through which you can import Furniture (a requirement for Insulae), just in case you decided to delete all of the trees on the map.

* SpiritualSuccessor: ''Grand Ages: Rome'', another city-building game set in Ancient Rome created by the studio that brought us the ''VideoGame/{{Tropico}}'' series.

* SequelEscalation: ''Caesar III'' features lots of additions, but some interesting elements from ''Caesar II'' such as province management are also dropped though. Additionally many of the realistic gameplay changes made in ''ChildrenOfTheNile'' were discarded in favour of the traditional formula in ''Caesar IV''.

* ArtisticLicenseHistory: "Caesar" was nothing more than a surname until the mid-1st century B.C, and some of the games in this series (e.g. ''Caesar III'') take place centuries before then, when Rome was a [[UsefulNotes/TheRomanRepublic Republic]] rather than an Empire, and the highest position of executive authority was the Consul.

* VendorTrash: A good deal of your income comes from opening a trade route and exporting surplus supplies of one kind or another, and some of those supplies are useless to you.

For the man himself, see Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar. For the play by William Shakespeare, see Theatre/JuliusCaesar.

For the man himself, see Creator/GaiusJuliusCaesar. For the play by William Shakespeare, see Theater/JuliusCaesar.

* BreadAndCircus: Good food and entertainment are basic elements behind a happy and wealthy population. Note that while the "Circus" aspect can be GladiatorGames, it doesn't necessarily have to be. (Theaters and Baths work too.)