Zeus: Master of Olympus (also Master of Olympus - Zeus) is the fifth full title of the City Building Series

City Building Series

The City Building Series is the collective name of a series of historical city-building games for personal computers developed by Impressions Games, BreakAway Games, and Tilted Mill Entertainment and published by Sierra Entertainment and Myelin Media...

 developed by Impressions Games

Impressions Games

Impressions Games was a video game developer founded by David Lester in the UK. He sold the company to Sierra Entertainment in 1995, who was then bought out by Cendant and eventually, Vivendi Universal ....

 and published by Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment

Sierra Entertainment Inc. was an American video-game developer and publisher founded in 1979 as On-Line Systems by Ken and Roberta Williams...

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Like previous titles, Zeus focuses on the building and development of a city in ancient times, this time in Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece is a civilization belonging to a period of Greek history that lasted from the Archaic period of the 8th to 6th centuries BC to the end of antiquity. Immediately following this period was the beginning of the Early Middle Ages and the Byzantine era. Included in Ancient Greece is the...

. It features some changes to the Caesar III

Caesar III

Caesar III is a video game developed by Impressions Games and published by Sierra Entertainment; the third installment of the Caesar series, part of Sierra's City Building Series...

 engine, most notably the new housing blocks, now dividing "common" and "elite" housing from the start, and more detailed walkers.
For a detailed overview of city building mechanics, see Series concepts and mechanics

As with other games in the series, the player must build a city on an empty plot of land of variable size and resources.