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Game #2728
Hall of Belated Fame Inductee  Gloriana   (a.k.a. Elisabeth I)  View all Top Dogs in this genre
Strategy   Business

Rating: 7.63 (150 votes)

Gloriana box cover

Gloriana screenshot
Gloriana is another excellent underdog from Ascaron, one of the most underrated strategy game companies today. Originally released in Germany as Elisabeth I, Gloriana is a historical trading simulation similar to Holistic Design’s classic Machiavelli the Prince. The game is set in 1550 when Elisabeth I became Queen of England. Your objective in the game is straightforward: as owner of a small trading company, work your way up the social and political ladder by gaining wealth and influence to become Elisabeth’s counselor. You have only until 1588, when the Spanish Armada attacks England, to accomplish this objective.

The gameplay in Gloriana will be familiar to anyone who has played historical trading games, e.g. Ascaron’s own The Patrician (set in Germany) or Machiavelli the Prince (set in Renaissance Italy). The difference here is that Gloriana is set in 16th century England, and the designers successfully used this fact to set the game apart from other similar titles. Gloriana offers many “generic” features of a trading game such as trading commodities between different ports (using the timeless “buy low, sell high” concept), and buying different kinds of ships. But the game also offers many other options that are true to that era. For example, you can choose to live the life of a pirate, or bid for luxury items in city-wide auctions held for merchants. The graphics are cartoony and attractive, and the underlying economic model is robust and reasonably realistic.

Overall, Gloriana is one of the best but least known economic simulations ever made. If you like The Patrician or other trading games, you will definitely enjoy this underdog. It is fun, entertaining, and historically accurate enough to please historians everywhere. Two thumbs up, way up!

Reviewed by: Underdogs
Designer: Unknown
Developer: Ascaron
Publisher: Ascaron
Year: 1996
Software Copyright: Ascaron
Theme: Historical, Business
Multiplayer:  
None that we know of
System Requirements: DOS
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If you like this game, try: Machiavelli the Prince, Patrician, The, Sea Legends

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