Hammurabi


Try to govern ancient city of Babylon for ten years!

Version 1.4

Dive into the world of ancient Summer and try your hand at governing city of Babylon for a ten year term of office. Face natural disasters and unpredictable crop yield... and when all this is OK, you will yet have to cope with the population explosion. Enjoy the eight bit classic game from the old times when games were written in BASIC!
  • Free, no ads :-)
  • Best scores recording, achievements to unlock!
  • Casual game with simple rules
  • Optional sleep mode disable
  • Optimized for small screens
Requirements:
Android 4.0.1 and better. No ads, no network communication, needs only permissions to vibrate.

About the game

Dive into the world of ancient Summer and try your hand at governing city of Babylon for a ten year term of office. Face natural disasters and unpredictable crop yield... and when all this is OK, you will yet have to cope with the population explosion. Enjoy the eight bit classic game from the old times when games were written in BASIC!

Hammurabi is free of charge, you can play the game without limitations. The game does not show any ads.

Aim of the game

The aim of the game is to survive in your office for ten years. If you manage this, your reign will be assessed according to the wealth you accumulated. Since ancient Summer is an agricultural society, the most important factor there is the land and people - the main criteria in the end of your term will be number of acres per inhabitant and number of inhabitants starved to death under your reign. To make the game more challenging, you can try to unlock several achievements.

Language variants

  • CZ Czech version (for Czech and Slovakia)
  • EN English version (rest of the word)

News

Version 1.4.1

Released on the 30th of September, 2023
  • NEWRecompiled to target Android 13

Version 1.4

Released on the 10th of December, 2022
  • NEWRecompiled for target Android API 32

Version 1.3

Released on the 17th of January, 2021
  • NEWAdded privacy policy
  • NEWLinks to the web changed to my new web pages

Version 1.25

Released on the 14th of December, 2019
  • NEWa link to my new game Snake: the new world was added to My Other Applications
  • FIXfixed bug which occasoinally crashed the app when it was on the background

Version 1.24

Released on the 7th of June, 2017
  • FIXfixed broken dialogs on some devices

Version 1.23

Released on the 7th of June, 2017
  • FIXfixed broken dialogs on some devices

Version 1.22

Released on the 21st of August, 2016
  • NEWadded button to report a bug
  • FIXfixed bug in settings crashing the application on some devices

Version 1.21

Released on the 23rd of January, 2016
  • FIXfixed bug in the endgame dialog

Version 1.2

Released on the 18th of January, 2016
  • UPDATEDinstructions
  • UPDATEDsmall changes in layouts

Version 1.1

Released on the 16th of January, 2016
  • NEWoptimized for small screens

How to play

As an absolute monarch in Summer you can buy and sell land, plant land with seed, and give the seed to people to feed. A universal currency is grain measured in bushels. One bushel of grain is the smallest unit with which you can work.
Game is divided into rounds, one round is one year of your term. In every year you will be informed on the current population status, crop yield in the last year, current price on one acre, and the status of the granary (indeed, your treasury). You will decide how many acres of land to buy and sell, how many to plant with grain seed and how many bushels to give to people to feed. Your servant will then execute all your orders, the grain will grow on fields and harvest will follow. Simple and easy, is not it?
To have it not-that-simple, you will have to face occassional plague which kills part of the population and rats, which will time from time run wild and eat some of your seed. And if too many people will starve, revolution will come and you will be thrown out of the throne.

Help

The following text is a kind of spoiler; if you want to discover the gameplay mechanism by yourself, do not read it. If you would like to get some advice anyway, press

Terms of use, limited liability

This game is designed with the best intentions and needs very limited set of permissions. However, the application is provided as it is, you acknowledge that it can contain bugs. The author is neither responsible for any damage or loss, whether direct, consequential, incidental, or special which user suffers arising from any defect, error or fault of the application or its failure to perform, even if author has been advised of the possibility of such defect, error, fault, or failure. In any event, author's total aggregate liability to you for all damages of every kind and type (regardless of whether based in contract or tort) shall not exceed $0.00. In the case that applicable law may not allow the limitation or exclusion of liability or incidental or consequential damages, the above limitation or exclusion may not apply to you, although author's liability will be limited to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law.

Have fun and enjoy the game

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