Machiavelli the Prince

A great re-make of one of my favorite old-school games. I remember playing this via email back when I had AOL.

If you enjoyed the original, which i loved, then its a nice return of an old friend.

Recommended — A Renaissance Strategy Gem With Rough Edges Machiavelli the Prince is one of those rare strategy titles that still feels singular decades later. It drops you into the bustling, treacherous world of Renaissance trade and politics, where every caravan route, commodity price shift, and diplomatic overture can ripple outward in surprising ways. The game’s greatest strength is how seamlessly it blends economic simulation with genuinely Machiavellian statecraft: bribing senators, buying church offices, influencing elections, sabotaging rivals, and occasionally resorting to darker methods. Few games capture the feeling of running a living, opportunistic mercantile empire quite like this one. That said, the interface absolutely shows its age. Expect clunky menus, limited feedback, and a learning curve that feels very 1990s. Reading the manual is a must. But once you push through that initial friction, the underlying systems reveal a depth and atmosphere that modern strategy games rarely attempt. Every decision matters, and the world reacts in ways that feel both logical and delightfully cutthroat. If you enjoy deep economic sims, political scheming, or historical strategy …

I like this game.

Want to establish a trade empire? Want to do dastardly things to your competitors? Want to be the Pope or the Doge? Dynamic systems - Good gameplay loop - Lots of fun

Classic game. Granted the Autosave game feature does not work. I'm not holding the old plague bug against them, that where you say "no don't visit" but as the game cycles thru your trade groups, it trades anyway. I did forget how fun it was to crush your opponents by cutting off access to every single city / town on the map. I can't wait to play it another time with a random map. That's a bit more challenging since the goods available are scattered across the map, making for interesting trade routes.