Fun up to a point. Becomes extremely tiresome and boring the further you go and the more pyramids you have to build. You end up just sitting there waiting for the pyramids to build themselves, even with the 'pyramid speedup' option enabled.

Also when playing longer missions, you tend to run into the 'aging population' issue which can easily end up destroying your city, forcing you to reload or start again. There are workarounds to try and solve this problem, like intentionally removing your housing and replacing. But the fact that the player should have to do this highlights a major game design issue. The player should not have to intentionally remove their population.

It became increasingly clear to me that a huge portion of the difficulty of this game is derived from simply battling the game's mechanical flaws.

There are better city builders out there. Hell, check out the other games by Impressions because they were better made than this.

I used to play this game on Windows XP Professional back in the 2000s. I saw it here and, since I loved this game, I wanted to give it a shot on my Surface Pro 5 running Ubuntu.
I am NOT disappointed at all, it works beautifully!
Playing for more than 5 hours straight for the first time in decades says it all!
Thanks Steam for making this possible, and thanks to the developers for creating such an amazing game! TOTALLY recommended, NO DOUBTS!

Deep, complex and brutally difficult with gorgeous graphics and great historical detail