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I love reimplementations.

I’ve recently been playing Julius, a reimplementation of Caesar III; and Augustus, a form with extra features:

https://github.com/bvschaik/julius https://github.com/Keriew/augustus

How complete is this? I loved Caesar II. Didn't have a chance to play the third.

They're both fully functional and amazing games. Ceaser 3 is a really fun, "modern" strategy game and one thing I (and my parents) liked at the time it came out is that all the military stuff is optional. You can get just as much glory for building a grown with a huge economy and large number of exports as defeating Hannibal's elephants.

Both of those open reimplementations require the base game, which is very very cheap on gog.com. I'd really recommend it.

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