The Sumerian Game

The Sumerian Game is a resource-management game based on a classroom project from 1962 to 1965, in which students used a teletype connected to a mainframe to make decisions about feeding a population and planting crops. The game has been rebuilt and is playable again.

You manage grain, store supplies against harsh seasons and natural disasters, grow the population and expand your settlements. Balance the number of people against the food supply, and arable land against cultivated fields. You have ten years to expand your city and keep it from extinction; if the population reaches zero, the lesson ends.