Things start slow and manageable, but as your power requirements grow, more people need more food, and your capacities gradually grow, you’ll need to upgrade your machines appropriately, manage your workers effectively, and do so quickly to squeeze as much efficiency out of your workforce as possible. The relationship between all the machines is incredibly tight and must be managed closely to make even a decent amount of progress, the two storylines containing 25 days you must survive through, each day made up of six 20 second segments where your power will be drained at the end of each section. If you need to manage your population numbers or get some quick power and food though, you can always deliver some humans to the bioreactor to be dissolved, and while it is tempting to simply use the bioreactor in a pinch when your population is too high to sustain or you need some food and power in a hurry, it is actually a pivotal part of the kind of ruthless management needed to succeed in Despotism 3k. It is possible for them to die of exhaustion as well though, meters below each machine showing how tired the humans are and the storage capsule being where they can rest and regain energy before being moved to one of the working tubes. To produce more humans involves pairing people up in the breeding tube, and to keep the workers from croaking, you must have some working in the food machine generating enough food to keep the people from dying of hunger. The computer has five machines of interest the humans will interact with in different ways, the most important being a wheel they run in to generate the power needed to keep the evil AI alive. The humor is certainly meant to draw players in the same way many games where you play as a villain does, but there is a difficult gameplay core to Despotism 3k that will require smart thinking and careful management of your human resources. While the humor of the experience is definitely dark and sometimes deliberately twisted, it swings towards being over the top like old grindhouse films, delighting in being violent and lascivious without crossing the line to where things might be disturbing or hard to read. At worst, you might read about certain individuals trying to escape, the robotic ruler you play as depicted more as a cartoonish villain who delights in being evil and cruel without the player having to really witness anything too dark. To help with softening some of the bleak situation, Despotism 3k dehumanizes its people, portraying them as featureless pink humanoid shapes who never show much character or personality. It seems like the stage could be set for one heroic person to rise up and free these people from their tyrannical robot ruler, but instead, we as players find ourselves as the evil AI in this darkly humorous inversion of the expected dystopic fiction.ĭespotism 3k is a resource management game all about strategically managing the enslaved humans. A small bunch of humans survived, only to be enslaved by an evil AI that forces them to work and breed to keep its own engines powered. In a post-apocalyptic sci-fi future, mankind has brought itself to ruin.
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