Despotism 3k

konfa games

About this game

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire! You’ll have to keep track of them to make sure they don’t succumb to exhaustion and hunger… although the weakest ones can always be thrown to the Bioreactor.
In other words, this is a indie resource management sim with rogue-lite elements, dramatic plot, and an abundance of pop culture references. Also, humor. Slaughter has never been so fun!

Key features:
1) Humor as dark as your ex’s heart. Immerse yourself in the life of a merciless tyrant!!
2) Resource management on steroids. Think fast, to the point, and abandon pity!
3) Rogue-lite (Almost roguelike) Every walkthrough is unique due to randomly generated events. And every failure is fatal — you’ll have to start over!
4) Easy to learn, hard to master. It only takes a couple minutes to figure out the game’s mechanics, but using them optimally is no small feat!

Core gameplay consists of transporting puny humans between various facilities using mechanical claws. They rest in one of the facilities and work in all the others. Puny humans are to produce energy for us (which is leaking constantly), they also have to reproduce and feed themselves. You need to plan your strategy and tactics in advance and track all your humans so that they don't die of exhaustion. The foremost roguelike element is that you can't save the game - you have to start from scratch every time. Besides that, a random event happens after every five feedings in the form of a text quest. A correct choice may provide some bonus, an incorrect one - well, you'll see! Many of the modifiers that you get due to the random events change the game's look significantly.

In the second campaign besides resource management you get a totally new "raid" mechanic. Send your humans on expeditions around a procedurally generated map and earn resources without any limits. Come on, you have to find the Time Machine lost in the wastelands of 3k-land!

Ratings and reviews

This game was very well done. I *mostly* liked the strategy and such, extra gamemodes and especially the art style. The game though was very difficult not impossible though i see how people may think it is, the events are very retarted and confusing for most people and the events you want may never show up, just negatives. Also you needed to be perfect in upgrading your machines, safe to say it was very difficult but with enough effort and the other gamemodes I completed... 1 campaign.

I pressed start again when I meant to press settings, because I wanted to see if there was a way to hold down the button to send dozens of puny humans to the reactor at a time, as I had roughly 400 sitting idle. I was 4 hours into the save. Fix that, and it's a 5/5 Tldr please add a way to send hundreds of people to the bioreactor that does not involve swipping hundreds of times, and maybe ask if you REALLY want to restart from scratch. Edit:apparently that is a feature. Huh. 5/5.

Super cool concept and graphics. I loved the pixel art style (fits the mood super well). The interface and objective of the game is clear. It takes a couple playthroughs to find a good strategy to survive, but it's still really hard. I've played like 30 games at this point and I can still barely win. The feeding system is good, but use as much electricity, or lower the cost of upgrades. Other than that, a great game, one of my favorite mobile games of all time.

What’s new

- Fixes problems with resolution that were happening on some devices
- Ensures compliance with recent Google requirements