No Place for the Dissident

I definitely want to love it for its concept. Political sims tend to be more geopolitical ([i]Victoria[/i] series) or electoral ([i]Democracy[/i] series), and I've long wanted something more granular following the advancement of an ideology through populations, like the outbreak sims this project is inspired by. However, it seems only partly realized. In my opinion, the problem is best summarized as a lack of identity for the player's ideology and its opposition. As it is, your ideology is only a name, and your opposition is simulated as a single unified force, similar to the "cure" effort in [i]Plague Inc.[/i] You never have any reason to feel like you're up against anything in particular, and I think that would go a long way to offering different challenges and adding a lot of flavor to your [strike]conquest[/strike] liberation of the world. I think both these problems could be approached by adding a step of ideology creation where principles are selected. Selecting something like...

Just a Plague Inc Clone... Nothing special. Not worth the money being asked for...

cool game thought there are manythings still missing

While I am recommending this, I would highly suggest you wait for a sale or until the price lowers. It’s not a bad game and has some cool mechanics, but it isn’t something that’s worth $20 unless you really think It’ll scratch a niche you have. While sometimes fun, it needs more polish to be worth the price it’s asking for, at least in my opinion. Here’s a bullet point review: The Good: - Ideology spreads through points on the map that interact with each other instead of having each country just be a tap made up of abstract numbers. They even have different population densities. Looking at waves of orange overflow a country is somewhat neat to look at. - Actions have a variety of different effects that are noticeable on the map and visualized on the country tab. Though some don’t quite make sense in some contexts, such as being able to organize protests and run social media memes in North Korea. - The world can sometimes turn into a cold war situation with roughl...

This is a cheap knock-off of Plague, Inc. It's not clear what the mechanics do (especially censorship), how the final score is reached, etc. Not ready for prime time.

It's okay. It will be better if they add more features and streamline the actions for smaller countries. Otherwise it will remain more tedious than fun. It could be really cool if they keep updating it.

very goood game I realy liked

I found it dull. I didn't get to flavor my ideology and control it enough. There wasn't any research involved. Ideologies are not... just mind-viruses, they actually motivate people and economies in how they develop. That may be... useless window dressing, or even... unwanted apologia, given the theming of this game. Yet I can't enjoy a game such as this without them. Perhaps it's because I'm less than thrilled to play the villain. To be someone causing nations to grow extreme and miserable, biased in all their viewpoints, stuck in endless conflicts... rotten. No fun.

Not a bad game, but buggy. Both of the games I played stopped making sense when all of the variables like population and so on were displayed as $Nan to me. This has some resemblance to Plague Inc, but you can do things like declare wars between countries and so on which is nice. The interface isn't as smooth as Plague Inc, but it is functional. If that bug weren't there it would be a bit pricey, but not too bad and worth picking up. But this title is bugged in a gamebreaking fashion, it isn't in EA, and it has been on the market for a while so it's not something I'm going to hang onto.

This is literally Plague Inc. reskinned to look like DEFCON, which half the gameplay and an inverted amount of polish. There's no reason to actually play this, and you can go to the discussions page to see that the developer doesn't care and thinks the game is already perfect. I find the notion that he thinks this is an acceptable political game to be insulting. As an example of how shallow this is, the only thing you define about the ideology you're spreading is the name. That's it. Nothing else. This game doesn't even have a menu screen. This isn't even an alpha build. This isn't even a tech demo. This is barely a 2008 flash game. This isn't even worth playing if it was free.