Play as a planetary planner and decide what we should do about the climate, biodiversity, and human welfare. Can you bring the world safely to a better place?

Came across this today. Apparently there’s a book or something attached as well. Helped to speed the passage of time at work, anyway.

  • SomeGuy
    14·
    2 years ago

    Really fun game. I’m surprised though, I raised the entire world to a high standard of living, fixed climate change and ecological issues, even raised happiness to max level and it still said I failed in making the world better when I guarantee it was. Regardless its a very fun game, thanks for the recommendation.

      • SomeGuy
        12·
        2 years ago

        Lol, sadly didn’t give me the option one way or another. In game their refered to as “malthusians” and for some reason they have a voice in the government. None of the policies they wanted were implemented by me but weirdly enough they never opposed my policies (which included national liberation, land back programs, and specifically raising standards of living in the 3rd world.).

    • CommunistWolfOP
      8·
      2 years ago

      Got to get that climate anomaly down as well, that’s what tripped me up on my first play-through. Got there in the end.

      • SomeGuy
        5·
        2 years ago

        I did. I actually got to the point where the temperature was lowering (-.5).

      • SomeGuy
        2·
        2 years ago

        I literally just did the same thing as my last playthrough and won 12 years early.

        • SomeGuy
          2·
          2 years ago

          Found an improvement, now I’m 22 years early.

  • Sankavara Gardens
    9·
    2 years ago

    Damn this is so stressful, can’t imagine how the actual planners must have felt during the first few 5 year plans in the USSR

  • MellowGamer1309
    6·
    2 years ago

    I gave it a try and I enjoyed it and I think it’s a good concept, but I think that’s all it is: a proof of concept for the book. As a standalone game it’s pretty buggy. On both my playthroughs I had issues with farms producing no food and power plants producing no electricity. Not to mention my emissions went up over 200000 after getting it to 0 for some reason. But like I said, it’s still pretty fun even in it’s current state. It’s a really tough game, but I got the hang of it after a while. I think the key is to fully and immediately switch from fossil fuels to renewables and to fund a bunch of different projects all at once.

    Politically speaking, it’s meh. The creators come across as libsocs, and I don’t think there’s a single mention of Marxism. As such there is no ML faction in the game, but it instead feels like it’s split across multiple factions. There are “accelerationists” who want to use the productive forces to their fullest and give everyone a high standard of living and bring humanity to the space age, the “Fanonists” who are anti-imperialists/anti-colonialists from the global south, and the “authoritarians” who seems like lib left caricatures of MLs (i.e they get mad if you demilitarize the world or abolish prisons).

    Possibly unrelated, but these are the recommended books on the website selling the creators’ book (second from the left).