At the end of each day, a random event will trigger. Being evil has its rewards.ĭespotism’s other highlight is its devilish and creative humour that permeates throughout your runs. Quite frankly it never got old just ruthlessly plucking them from the haven of the storage and mercilessly dropping them into acid. You also have the option of throwing helpless humans into the bioreactor to exchange death for power and food if you’ve got the souls to spare or you’re in a resource recession. Each day that passes increases the threshold of required power, so you’re constantly forced to produce more of everything survive. Carefully and efficiently managing your enclave of slaves as you shift priorities to different areas is satisfying when you get to grips with the game’s unforgiving demands. It must be said, this part of Despotism 3k is its best mechanic.
If you time things wrong you could end up having no arms left to save that poor exhausted person from combusting, what a shame. Moving humans takes precious time and you only have a limited number of mechanical arms to move them around. As you breed more humans to service higher power outputs, you need more food and more humans to do the breeding.
A delicate balance and dance therefore ensues as you desperately try to move the puny fools from facility-to-facility, switching them in-and-out frantically. Your humans are your resource so you’re required to manage them carefully and efficiently to succeed.Īnnoyingly, giving humans recuperation time removes their ability to work, reducing your productivity and potentially endangering your power output. If you don’t stop them working in time, they implode out of existence from exhaustion. Typically of pathetic organics, humans can only work within the limits of their energy.
DESPOTISM 3K ENOUGH FOR ME UPGRADE
Each upgrade requires an increasing amount of power. This is where the strategy of the game comes to the fore. The breeding ground animations were immaturely hilarious and depicted… well, acts you certainly wouldn’t describe in the birds and the bees talk.Įach facility can and will need to be upgraded to increase their output and capacity for further enslaved souls. Lastly, you have the breeding ground, which includes quite a graphic depiction of a collection of pink pixels doing what needs to be done for humanity. The human storage area is effectively a flask which houses your newly-bred or resting humans, allowing them to recover stamina. The food production facility provides sustenance for your slaves, how unfortunate they need food at all. The hamster wheel generates power, the aforementioned essential resource. You start with a handful of human servants, whom you happily put to work to serve your needs. Of course, being the ultimate dictator AI you obviously are, you can’t be doing any of the hard graft yourself. Each cycle demands a certain amount of power to sustain your evil despot ass and an allocation of food to keep your fleshy slaves working. For each day, there are 5 cycles that occur every 20 seconds. If you run out of power, your primary resource, you lose and have to begin your campaign of dominating humans again.Įach run starts on day 1, with the ultimate objective to reach day 25 (30+ on the 2nd campaign). Despotism channels a lot of ideas from the rogue-like genre, with intense, challenging gameplay and little room for error. Each run you attempt has no checkpoints or saves. There are two campaigns, the second of which is locked initially until you complete the first. It was a sad end to a despot that had so much maniacal potential. Sadly though, this idea consistently maddened me, destroyed my most productive runs and in the end turned me off the game completely. The idea was clearly to add variety to its singular mode offering. Which made it all the more disappointing that Despotism 3k relies so heavily on RNG and randomly generated events that can ruin your campaign run in an instant. Despotism’s humour also elevates its moment-to-moment gameplay with that kind of “WTF” hilarity that has you wanting to see what other humorous text dialogue it has up its mechanical sleeve. It’s core concept of managing weak and energy-limited humans is enjoyable and tense in full-flow. Despotism 3k is a 2D resource management game with a strong emphasis on managing increasingly competing demands with limited resources (read: puny humans).
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