Cool game but the developer's politics can get really :cringe: sometimes. Like the "authoritarian" (obvious stand-in to marxist-leninists with their bright red color and reference to "personality cult" :stalin-approval:) is clearly based 1984 animal farm polcomp take than any legitimate "authoritarian" socialist views. Like seriously, the auths supports stopping food aid?! What the fuck, this is straight up slanderous to the struggle of AES states in supporting the global south against western imperialism. I really did not want to hear what the devs have to say about the OBOR project :fedposting:
But the game have strong commitment to upholding third worldism which is guess made it up for me.
Yeah once you work out the winning strategy the game kind of falls apart. IMO there's not enough options and there's not enough touch choices - in my win I researched every single technology (except "end natural predation" which describes doing DNA modification to every apex predator and injecting contraceptives into all of the herd animals and that skeeves me out quite a bit), finished every single infrastructure project (except for a couple of the really long space ones that were in-progress and the geoengineering ones that have disastrous side effects), and didn't have to pass any of the "harsh but effective" policies like enforced veganism or degrowth.
Cool game but the developer's politics can get really :cringe: sometimes. Like the "authoritarian" (obvious stand-in to marxist-leninists with their bright red color and reference to "personality cult" :stalin-approval:) is clearly based 1984 animal farm polcomp take than any legitimate "authoritarian" socialist views. Like seriously, the auths supports stopping food aid?! What the fuck, this is straight up slanderous to the struggle of AES states in supporting the global south against western imperialism. I really did not want to hear what the devs have to say about the OBOR project :fedposting:
But the game have strong commitment to upholding third worldism which is guess made it up for me.
Yeah once you work out the winning strategy the game kind of falls apart. IMO there's not enough options and there's not enough touch choices - in my win I researched every single technology (except "end natural predation" which describes doing DNA modification to every apex predator and injecting contraceptives into all of the herd animals and that skeeves me out quite a bit), finished every single infrastructure project (except for a couple of the really long space ones that were in-progress and the geoengineering ones that have disastrous side effects), and didn't have to pass any of the "harsh but effective" policies like enforced veganism or degrowth.