Разработчик: Aweswan studios
Описание
Quick Play!
Hopefully this will give people some idea what the game is about.
About the Game
The world’s pollution is threatening all life on Earth. Employed by a Billionaire, and chosen for your high intelligence and psychopathic tendencies, it’s up to you to save the world by any means necessary. On surface Depopulation is a military strategy game glorifying casualties, but underneath is a deeply emotional, philosophical roller coaster, that will help you understand our unbreakable connection with the environment. It hopes to portray the terrible cost of ignoring that connection.Use invasions, hunger, disease, nukes, amplifying natural disasters and civil wars to dramatically cull the most adaptable and clever animal on the planet. Or try a peaceful but harder approach. Use clever politics, convince countries to join you, build environmental wonders, construct environmental infrastructure and reduce the birth-rate to create a sustainable future. Either way, the only thing that matters is the survival of Earth’s environment, for which even billions lives is a small price to pay.
- Free WebAssembly version! Play in your Browser Now! (Might need the latest Chrome or Firefox - NO microtransactions)
So why make a game about Depopulation?
We all care deeply about the environment and its ecosystem. I wish we took Environmental issues extremely seriously. When a person or group of people destroys part the environment, they destroy anyone or anything that could have lived there – essentially preventing 100’s of future people and animals from even existing. This is far worse than murder, war, plagues etc. It is estimated that there are over 2,000,000 deaths per year from air-pollution in China and India alone. We are polluting the Earth more and more, and as a result more and more people/animal will not only die but have no-where to live.Yet, we live in an age with unprecedented resources to be able to help the environment. We understand natural relationships and sustainability. Potentially, we can maximise biodiversity and life. We can make the world even more wondrous. All that is required is a strong desire to do so…
Terrain Rendering
I've worked hard to create one of the best Earth rendering systems ever put inside a computer game. I wanted the earth to look beautiful. I wanted people to see the world as I see it. I want people to have a sense of what is being destroyed.Pros
- Has a free lower quality Browser version - check it out and see if you like it. (Contains NO microtransactions)
- Instant end turns, makes the game play very fast for a turn based game
- Easy to play
- Hard to master. Will help you understand the reality you live in.
- Helps you understand "the fittest survive" - strictly meaning, the ones that "fit" into their environment survive. The strongest do not survive. The strong consume all their resources until there gone and then perish.
Cons
- Is fairly short, but highly re-playable.
- Saving the world is hard, and this game reflects that.
- Has a free version with most of the content, so is it worth buying? Yes! Especially if you want to support the author. This version has over 15 aweswan songs (web version only has 2), much much higher resolution graphics and will have larger "PC only" assets that are too big to put in a web version. It's seriously, only $5 US so why not? Web version has no save games. Web version is ~40 meg and paid version is ~1.7 gig.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 8
- Processor: 2.0 GHz Dual Core Processor
- Memory: 512 MB RAM
- Graphics: Integrated Graphics (512MB)
- Storage: 500 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
boring, bland, unintuitive
The only good thing about this "game" is the awesome music, but that's only because Aweswan didn't make it themselves (the very first track is by TSFH).
The camera control sucks. It scrolls suuuuper slow...
... also, the map isn't a globe. That means the US is on the far left end and Japan on the far right end. If you wanna try to recreate WW2 and nuke Japan, you don't just cross the Pacific - you have to scroll aaaaall the way over there over the Atlantic, Europe, and Asia in slomo. I swear, the stupid plane carrying the Hiroshima bomb arrived faster in Japan than my mouse cursor did...
Rest of the controls suck, too: The "game" has no shortcut keys, you have to do fu[b]cking everything[/b] with the mouse.
Graphics suck: The map is most probably from Google Images and there are no animations worth a damn. The attacks are "animated" with a few colored lines and the simplest of explosion gifs; but none of the catastrophes are animated... I mean, how cool (and easy to animate) would it have been to see an asteroid crash into the simplistic map?
Speaking of the simplistic map: The game looks just plain boring. The sun's reflection in the ocean is the only good thing I remember about this lazy graphics. Wonder where Aweswan stole that from?... It's definitely not their own work.
The "game" has a bajillion of cringeworthy typos. It would be somewhat forgivable, if the devs from Aweswan had another language than English, but since the devs apparently and fortunately no longer exist I couldn't find that out, so let's leave it with "learn to spell, you swanheads".
Also, its mechanics make no sense. US and Russia start with no nukes? But the country I choose to start in has always 4 nukes, even if I start as Czechia, Congo, or Bhutan? And a few in-game years later literally everyone has nukes, even Tibetian monks!... Ridiculous. Imagine being afraid of nuking Liechtenstein or Andorra, because they might send some nukes back at you... -,-
Also, while playing the game told me that Austria lost 120 million civilians. Last time I checked it had only about 9 million, though!?! And that RL number included civilians and military personell.
Also, in my very first game Spain got immediately in turn 1 invaded and taken over by Andorra which evidently in the real world has no armed forces and is under Spain's protection...
All that stupid stuff would've been okay, if it had been about some no-name fantasy countries in a fantasy world. Was it really that hard to come up with a fantasy world instead of this unrealistic immersion-breaking BS?...
a confusing mess of game that does nothing and goes nowhere
This game feels like its the first game the author ever released. It suffers from many balancing issues, the game is basically ruled by the random number generator. That said I had fun playing this game (for about 7 hours) and if you're interested in the topic, buy it when this game is on sale.
A fun game, and absolutely worth the price. It plays out much like Risk, geographically, but with the added layers of population, polution, and happiness. Plays fast. The hard part is reaching a critical mass of income/troops/happiness to where you can take on other burgeoning empires. Then? The killin' starts.
Managed to play for under ten minutes then lost interest.
A short and simple game with a very environmental message. It should last you about as long as you see in my play time, unless you try for modes above normal, and it's amusing enough for the price.
It's OK for 0,41 cents. The browser game is practically the same.
I just bought it to support the browser game.
Make the country populations realistic, how can marshall islands have enough power to take over the world (this happened in one game i played). The populations and nation strength issues bugged me the most, so make those accurate and realistic and the game is decent. Also make the GUI look better.
Pretty rough around the edges. Not sure that the environmental message really comes across when you kill 12 billiion people and the remaining 90 million are still polluting at a higher rate than the 13 billion were. It did entertain me for .7 hours, though.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Aweswan studios |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 25.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 67% положительных (9) |