Finally I discover a slight inclination for an addiction in myself - what a great way to discover addiction!
Beg, borrow or burrow for this this game and travel to classic or mythological Greece to build a city and follow a story .
It's the art of building a sophisticated interacting system that needs to be well-balanced in order to be successful.
Listen to the praise or derisive comments of allies, rivals, your citizens or mythological heroes.
Let Ares beg you in vain to send him out on war.
In case of attack send your own troops abroad or let your citizens stop any invasion with a shower of finely thrown stones. Guess these farmers and craftsmen are up to showing anyone the way who dares to interrupt their activities... ;-)
Build and arrange all night through although you thought you were too old for that.
Zeus by Sierra will teach an interesting lesson about that ,too.
The game leaves you more leeway getting your construction on the way instead of being so permanently on the road of confrontation like Age Of Empires and Civilisation. These are nice games, but don't give you the data you want f.e. about the relationship between citizens and the amount of places of employment or number of goods.
Do you know of a reliable (no unwanted biotope) source for a Poseidon demo download?