Ranked #1309
185 Points
Epicinium is a strategy wargame where nature is a finite resource. Is it worth winning a war when you end up conquering nothing but dirt and ash? Epicinium is currently in closed beta. The beta version offers a work-in-progress look at the multiplayer portion of the game. To qualify for access, join our Discord community. There, you can also follow its progress, find other players and have a chat with the developers. Combat destroys grass and crops, and trees are trampled as tanks drive towards your opponent to level their cities. Industry accelerates global warming to ludicrous levels, causing more destruction the longer the game goes on. At the end of the game, the winner is scored for how many grass and forest tiles remain on the map. Epicinium is being developed for Windows, MacOS and Linux by A Bunch of Hacks, an indie gamedev co-op comprised of Daan Mulder and Sander in 't Veld.
I like what this game is going for. Especially the "funky nightmare" aesthetic works well, and is supported well by the graphics and music.
I haven't yet finished the game, but it was fun until now. You walk around in your pajamas, finding your way through a maze of toys while shooting the toy bunnies that attack you. This is well done, only sometimes it can be hard to see where you'll shoot. Sometimes you'll die because you're misfiring a lot, which can be frustrating. The game is in an unfinished state, but I can really see this work when completed and polished a bit.
Since this was for an assignment, it seems like this project is abandoned, but I'd like to see how the devs would finish this, or else what they might be working on now.