Dark Villagers

Dark Villagers

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overall: 3.61
fun: 3.40
innovation: 3.27
theme: 4.02
graphics: 4.11
audio: 3.46
humor: 2.71
mood: 3.71

Welcome to our project page. In this game you are going to run a village, where followers of evil cult live. They are peaceful people, who usually develop their village, pray for dark forces and glorify Satan.

But when peasants attack the village, sectarians have no choise but to offer each other's lives for sacrifice on a sacred altar for summoning the grim hellspawn up for help.

The game's economy offers several main resources: gold (recruit nomads), food (necessary for hiring new sectarians), wood (building material) and bricks (also building material). Dark Church, which is available from the beginning, lets gathering some gold during exact time (you can see income as green numbers from time to time).

But your main resource is people. Nevertheless, you must sacrifise them to defence of your village. Therefore, you can turn travellers into your faith at village's reception. For this, click on any nomad, then if you have enough resources, it turns in red robe and starts to believe in... whatever...

In the beginning of game session you have 5 sectarians, Dark Church and an altar. Besides, there are building fields on a playing area. By selecting a field you can chose a building, which you want to set up: hut, windmill, sawmill and quarry. Huts generates gold, windmills produce food, sawmills give you wood, quarry generates bricks. If task's icon in building menu is grey, it means you do not have enough resources for building.

After setting up a building you can appoint there up to 5 sectarians. Running processes from inside increases building's effectivity. Sectarians could be forced to go back outside, for this, select a building and click on sectarians' images in a pop-up interface.

Peasants from a neighbour village will come soon. They will attack sectarians and destroy their houses one by one. Therefore, for defence you must appeal to the altar. You can order sectarians to go there, then you sacrifice their lives. The more blood is spilled, the stronger creature is summoned. Notice, different kinds of demons conquer different kinds of christians with different level of success.

With every wave of attack your enemies have better chances to win: the amount of their warriors increases, also knights and even inquisitors replace peasants.

Here's the game twitter in case of updates — https://twitter.com/DarkVillagers

Here's gameplay video.
https://youtu.be/vGe6gjNfMhI
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