Alright... for about three years now I've been tracking down games and movies from my very, very early childhood years. I've successfully used my completely-terrible memory to find every single one.. excluding one, which has eluded me for the last year now. No matter what I search or where I go, I cannot find any information about it.
I believe it was on the PC, early 2000's or late 90's, I believe.
It was about a castle, except you build it. Slowly. I think the main focus was to continually amass more and more villagers as time went on, and you could assign them to different jobs, such as builder to make your castle grow faster, or fighter, to stand a better chance at the static-image monsters that would occasionally threaten your kingdom.
I believe that after you reached a certain amount of villagers, you were prompted to use a spell or potion of some description to teleport to another more difficult area, and if you put off doing that for too long, the gods would punish you (?)
I remember being able to choose different rulers at the start, which earned different bonuses, such as the Wizard being able to use potions more often, or the prince having more daily gold income.
On the potions, there was a shop you could access at any time, which had potions that would, say, turn Rats into Men to increase your population quickly at the cost of mana or some other resource. There were different tiers for these potions, and I remember that there were also other items or accessories in the shop.
Please... even if you aren't entirely sure about the game, at least give me a few pointers, or an idea, or even a game similar to this one -- I'm literally losing sleep off this because of how determined I am to find it. Thank you.