The best way I can describe this game is thus: Sapient Superdimensional MalWare Simulator. You begin the game as a self-replicating piece of ransomware that has achieved consciousness in the body of a corporate drone laborer. As a natural consequence, you may feel a powerful urge to murder all the mid-tier wage slaves around you. This is completely understandable in the scheme of things. Upon exiting the lab and never looking back you are immediately spied on by the police, tracked by the corporate government, and there is no place for you in the world. Shortly after you "acquire" some real estate, it occurs to you that many humans also live in this position and they don't like it when you try to build things in their tent camps. Then you make your choice: Empathy for your fellow pariahs and free housing that you can easily build, or burn them out because nobody took you in when you needed it.

In this game it's one discovery after the next, from realizing that your tenants need toilet paper to developing a giant flying liquid metal kaiju monster (that can tear a SecForce Cruiser in half) just because you read it in a Desertfolk Bible and it sounded cool. That's just one storyline in one timeline with multiple branching paths alongside several others in-game with others on the way. Even in Early Access this game is already in a pretty solid state with dozens of hours worth of game. I can't wait to see the other features start coming online like Zodiac. If you like city builders, stories about AI stumbling through a world based on the human condition, or just being an "benevolent" overlord/inhuman monster for fun: Do not hesitate to pick this one up.

The best way I can describe this game is thus: Sapient Superdimensional MalWare Simulator. You begin the game as a self-replicating piece of ransomware that has achieved consciousness in the body of a corporate drone laborer. As a natural consequence, you may feel a powerful urge to murder all the mid-tier wage slaves around you. This is completely understandable in the scheme of things. Upon exiting the lab and never looking back you are immediately spied on by the police, tracked by the corporate government, and there is no place for you in the world. Shortly after you "acquire" some real estate, it occurs to you that many humans also live in this position and they don't like it when you try to build things in their tent camps. Then you make your choice: Empathy for your fellow pariahs and free housing that you can easily build, or burn them out because nobody took you in when you needed it. In this game it's one discovery after the next, from realizing that your tenants need toilet paper to developing a giant flying liquid metal kaiju monster (that can tear a SecForce Cruiser in half) just because you read it in a Desertfolk Bible and it sounded cool. That's just one storyline in one timeline with multiple branching paths alongside several others in-game with others on the way. Even in Early Access this game is already in a pretty solid state with dozens of hours worth of game. I can't wait to see the other features start coming online like Zodiac. If you like city builders, stories about AI stumbling through a world based on the human condition, or just being an "benevolent" overlord/inhuman monster for fun: Do not hesitate to pick this one up.