[ThomW]

From Dust played with the idea of terrain manipulation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk4hRWD6BT8

I played it on the Xbox 360, but it's on Steam as well. https://store.steampowered.com/app/33460/From_Dust/

[bni]

This game is genius and desperately needs a remaster and re-release

[taskforcegemini]

thanks for suggesting this! I bought "populous: the beginning" just a few weeks ago, didn't know there was a modern variant!