April is already a monster month for city builders and colony sims, but another new city builder game has been announced. In most city builders, the cities you grow and manage can last for years, sometimes decades, sometimes centuries.

That is the goal of Memoriapolis, a strategy city builder by French developer 5PM Studio. Starting with a small hunting camp in ancient times, the game eventually grows the settlement into a thriving city, leading through four different historical eras in the span of 2,500 years. From the pre-medieval to the Age of Enlightenment, the capital can be created with a mix of different architectural styles.

In order for a city to survive over the centuries, it must set up trade routes, manage its economy and the city's resources, make political decisions, and maintain the safety and well-being of its citizens. They can also build historic structures such as Notre Dame de Paris, Windsor Castle, or the Leaning Tower of Pisa. These wonders require significant resources and take a long time to build, but they give your city a bonus and allow you to move on to the next historical era.

This all sounds like a lot of work, but you don't have to do it all yourself. You don't have to place roads in your city, as they will organically form based on the needs of your citizens. The developers say, "Thanks to a proprietary algorithm supervised by an urban planner, we can create cities as realistic as anything you've ever seen in a video game."

The idea of citizens building their own roads reminds me a bit of city builders like Ostriv and Foundation, where roads are built bit by bit as villagers walk from place to place. As someone with fairly poor planning instincts, I prefer to leave the logistics of the roads to the people who will actually use them and concentrate on other things.

A release date for Memoriapolis has not yet been announced, but if you want to know a little more about it, you can hear from the developers. There is a developer diary that serves as an introduction to the city builder, as well as a diary about the design of Memoriapolis.