Is it cheeky to write about a game that I learned about because RPS already wrote about it?
No, says I, because more people deserve to know about this game.
I like god sims, but I don’t like the way they’re often structured.
WorldBox seems to understands this and it’s more of a toybox than a game.
There are no objectives, just a generated pixel world with which to tinker.
You have a suite of tools with which to change that world.
The pixel people will scurry around, chopping down trees, mining, building homes and farms.
Eventually, they’ll form kingdoms, go to war with their neighbours, build boats and go colonising.
As an ant farm, it’s great.
Some like sushi, some have bloodlust, some have lost an eye.
They grow old, they have babies, they declare themselves king and secede from their nation.
it’s possible for you to, of course, get more involved.
Or you could do what my son likes to do: wreak havoc.
But when I look away, it’s instant carnage.
As I said, it’s a toybox and toys are for smashing together to see who wins.
He’ll infect the dwarves with the plague, then set nanomachines to convert the world into grey goo.
The citizens aren’t helpless in the face of this onslaught.
The grey goo… Yeah, there’s not much they can do about the grey goo.
My kid’s appetite for it is insatiable.
It remains in early accessand you might get it from Steam.
