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If you imagine a hotch-potch of Utopia, Mega Lo Mania and Populous, except in 2D, you'd be pretty close to understanding what Traders is all about. Again, it's a race for technological development and fiscal success, with up to four players battling it out on a mysterious planet, evolving robots and competing with the rigours of nature, as well as hostile advances from each other.

Distinct from lots of God sims and strategy games of late, Traders has got a reasonably light tough and doesn't weigh the player down with facts and figures. Instead it lets them explore their new world and get on with the business of exploiting and ruining it with the minimum amount of fuss.

While there's no question that the game boasts as much depth or longevity as any of the games mentioned above. Traders acts as a pretty solid introduction to the strategy game. Not too shabby.