Depopulation Reviews

Managed to play for under ten minutes then lost interest.

a confusing mess of game that does nothing and goes nowhere

It's OK for 0,41 cents. The browser game is practically the same. I just bought it to support the browser game.

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.

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.

[h1]boring, bland, unintuitive[/h1] 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 [u]suuuuper slow[/u]... ... 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 [u]in slomo[/u]. 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 [b]fu[b][/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 [b]not[/b] 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 [b]and fortunately[/b] 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 [u]everyone[/u] 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 [b]and[/b] 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 [b]and[/b] 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?...

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.

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.