I used to love playing games like Dungeon Keeper, Startopia, Theme Hospital, Evil Genius, Black and White etc, but none of these games seem to like running under windows 7.
I was hoping to get something a bit more up to date, but the whole genre seems to have disappeared these days. Any recommendations for a more recent game that follows in these footsteps?
From Dust is a fun God game,
bit short but the gamemechanic is very cool,
Black and White doesn’t run in Windows 7? I don’t have the newest Windows; is this a common problem?
Actually, I’ve not tried Black and White. Had problems with DK2, Startopia and Evil Genius though
Black & White bored the fuck out of everyone and we moved on to FPS/RPG hybrids.
I didn’t care for Black & White, but speak for yourself. I’m still interested in TBS and sims. Your post smells bad.
To the OP, I’m looking forward to playing Tropico 4. Metacritic score is currently a respectable 78, with the main complaint, if I read correctly, being that it’s basically a patch of Tropico 3. Seeing how I haven’t played T3, no worries for me. I have good memories of the original.
Tropico’s not a god game though. It’s a city builder in the vein of the Caesar/Cleopatra/Zeus/Emperor and Anno series. That’s not to say it’s a bad game, because being El Presidente is always fun, just not what the OP is nostalgic for.
That being said, what the OP is nostalgic for is the exact reason I’m still trucking right on with WinXP, and will until new games stop running on it at all. At which point I’ll grugdingly jury-rig a dual boot or something if I can be arsed.
Yeah, I noticed the smell. Sorry about that. 
Check out Good Old Games, gog.com
They have at least a few of the titles listed (and many more!), if you feel like shelling out 5 bucks to play them again.
Also think I saw a few on Steam?
If anyone ever finds out that Warlords III can run in Win7, let me know!
True, but there are similarities between Tropico and Evil Genius/Dungeon Keeper, such as managing little people, economic concerns, and the constant building.
The GOG versions seem to work more reliably, they are set to run on DOS Box I believe it’s called. GOG does have one of the classic God Games; Populous.
They’ve also got Dungeon Keeper 2, although it’s unstable on Windows 7 if run at full resolution. Runs fine on a lower resolution, though.
Tropico 4
ETA: thought I was clever…turns out I’m not.
Also having random people arrested because fuck you I was bored, that’s why. 
Black and White was boring?
What?
“Oh woe is me! I lost all my sheep! Help me god!”
Oh sure lemme just set your house on fire and then throw you into a few mountains.
“UUUGGGHHLLbllalargghh”
Mission complete.
Best game ever.
Even training your creature to poop on command, set its own poop on fire and fling it at people whenever they congregate to praise you gets old.
I did have a look at this, and it looked similar to DK2, but saw some slighty dodgy reviews for it. Do you recommend it then?
Gog.com looks good. might have to spend a bit of cash on there
Seems to me that the reviews are dodgy because it gets unfavorably compared to DK, which I haven’t played. Dungeons is amusing and both have demos so you can see for yourself before you buy.