Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day, perhaps for all time.
I’m shocked that this one hasn’t already been covered in Have You Played, given that it appears on our Best Management Games Ever list, but this does mean that I get to be the one writing it now. Zeus: Master of Olympus (frequently now bundled as Acropolis with its expansion Poseidon: Master of Atlantis) is, and will probably forever remain, one of my most treasured games, let alone the specifics of genre. It carries the perfect balance of beauty, difficulty, detail, and puns. They’re Ancient Greek puns, too.