1849: Gold Edition (2014) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

1849: Gold Edition

"1849: Gold Edition" combines the base game "1849" plus the "1849: Nevada Silver" and "Epilogue: After the Gold Rush" content packs. 1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your…

62 8 May 2014

What 1849: Gold Edition is

1849: Gold Edition is an indie game developed by SomaSim and released in 2014. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Adobe AIR.

The premise, in the publisher's words

"1849: Gold Edition" combines the base game "1849" plus the "1849: Nevada Silver" and "Epilogue: After the Gold Rush" content packs. 1849 is a city management game set during the California Gold Rush. Your task is to build towns, populate them with workers, and make sure that they are housed, fed, and entertained. You’ll have to manage and coordinate extensive production and trade networks to make sure your towns thrive. 1849: Nevada Silver expands on 1849’s simulation gameplay to provide more challenge on a bustling new frontier: - Six new Nevada city scenarios, from frontier outposts to bustling boom towns, plus sandbox mode - Train-based trading system adds a new strategic dimension -…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are educational and historical. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

1849: Gold Edition holds a critic score of 62 out of 100. That places it above 20% of the 5,098 rated indie games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2014 averaged 69, so it scored 7 points below the year average.

What it launched against

1849: Gold Edition launched on 8 May 2014, within three weeks of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order and Transistor. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, Wolfenstein: The New Order, Transistor.

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