There's a subgenre of the F2P/CityBuilder/Strategy area that i've long been a fan of. Example games are Rise of Rome and Chronicles of Merlin (both defunct on iOS at this point). The only currently-available examples that i'm aware of are Roman Empires and Gaul Wars. (War Dragons is kind of filling the need right now, although the direct theft of resources from others isn't ideal) There is a very subtle but important distinction in my eyes between this set of clones (and i don't know what the original game is) and Travian clones - You build heroes, not armies, and the combat is actually (eventually) tactical rather than just brute-numbers based. The current games that i'm aware of are just strictly worse than the older defunct games - the current ones have less polish, no innovative systems, not much in terms of user interaction/experience. Anyway, if anyone could help me out in finding more games like the older ones, or even tell me what the 'original' is, it's been something I search for regularly. These games typically give me a reason to wake up at 5am, which makes my day and life more productive in the long run. If i could have responses PM'd to me, I'd appreciate it. (Copy/Pasting this post from the Mass Thread because apparently no one uses it!)
