Failing Empire

Overall★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.75
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★4.50
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★4.75
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.50
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★4.00
Welcome to Failing Empire!

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In this management game build power plants, parks and other buildings to help boost your failing resources. Keep your total energy, money and happiness above 0 and see how long you can maintain your failing empire!

Can you beat 30 turns?

Controls:
WASD / Middle Mouse Button - Pan Camera
Scroll - Zoom
Left Click - Select Tiles / Build Improvements

screenshot

Comments5

Angela He
Angela He31 Jul 2017, 21:57
I really like this game :) It has a bit of a slice-of-life feel to it - it feels more realistic than other resource management games I've played. Personally, it makes me take the game more seriously.

I like how you learn by trial and error too. I don't really see that in resource management games I've played.

My advice is to randomize or lengthen the audio more, because the loop started to become tedious for me. But that's a nitpick - I really like everything. It's great for Compo!
Kthulhu19471 Aug 2017, 21:03
Really good. Tough to know what action do what...
Keep moving forward.
tddawson
tddawson10 Aug 2017, 02:32
I'm impressed with the variety of options and accompanying graphics for each one. I would have preferred a bit more guidance and less trial-and-error at first, but that may just be personal preference. I agree with the comment about the audio loop, but it's hard not to run into that during the compo especially.
JoshyOshKenoshi
JoshyOshKenoshi22 Aug 2017, 10:39
This is an incredible effort for a compo entry, and the little hex world you've created is really impressive. A difficulty I had was in knowing the effect that my actions would have on energy/money/happiness - quite often I lost early on because, for instance, happiness would dramatically drop in the space of 1 turn and I wasn't too sure what had caused it... maybe all of those coal plants I built? :P
FuriousWitch
FuriousWitch22 Aug 2017, 12:40
Very nice! I liked this game a lot and it is obvious you put a lot of effort into making it. The graphics are beautiful and the game play is very interresting.

The cons are that without guidance it is a bit frustrating so more hints would help a lot. The trial and error concept is okay and you can keep it that way but just add a little bit more hints. Great work on such a short time though. Congratulations!

P.S If you would like to play and rate my game that would be great. Thanks :)

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