MULE Returns is basically an economic simulation presented in game form. A remake of a classic Atari game, players set out to colonize a new planet with three other participants. Players take 6-12 turns to claim land, farm resources, and make the money necessary to not just be top dog among the colonists, but to also help the colony be successful overall at the end of the game.
MULE, the seminal 1983 turn-based strategy game by Ozark Softscape has a sequel for Android by Comma 8 Studios. It’s still a resource management strategy game where the objective is to build a thriving space colony using cranky Multiple Use Labor Elements, or MULEs. Pay attention to the in-game instructions, and the colony should thrive to be more than a backwater.
I played the heck out of that game on the Atari with the number key pad..lol downloading now for the 2nd game.
M.U.L.E. Returns is a prime example of why revisiting the past isn't always the best idea.
It's a clumsy port of a not-particularly-inspiring strategy game that shows its age in every creaking joint and painful loading screen.
Gamezebo - "M.U.L.E. occupies a unique and much-cherished niche in gaming history. It was about the first ever game to blend multiplayer and real-time strategy, all way back in the days of 8-bit systems. I never owned one of the platforms it ran on, so had never experience its pleasures, although I knew of its exalted reputation. And that reputation made a modern day remake like MULE Returns all but inevitable."
I love the original. It's a masterpiece.
Where's the android version??