Natalie

This is pretty fascinating as a design object. It's so parsimonious with its mechanics, it feels like something you'd see as an itch.io microgame today—probably with a slightly more graceful UI, but still. The logic of how your followers behave is so clearly laid out by the manual and so intimately tied to the strategy of your game that this feels as much like shepherding a cellular automaton as it does like being a patron deity.

It's a little too minimal to be all that much fun or particularly compelling to play more than a couple times. It lacks the campaign mode that give later real-time strategy games their long legs, but for a game from 89 it's a pretty impressive precursor.