Ideology Rush 12+

I enjoy this game and have even gotten to Ecology, which is no small feat. Only by looking online have I seen that each ideology has a quirk like appeal gradually decreasing or being an easily appealing trait. Now by the time you get to Eco on Hard, the reaction shoots up SO fast and the community and propaganda doesn’t spread as fast. The tools given to slow down don’t seem to work at all and everything cost a lot to get. I have gotten pretty close by spreading it fast and upping appeal but the reaction goes so quick and it seems the things you can do to lessen the appeal grows it and even the appeal elements cause it to rise because they are so extreme. I hope this is something that can be adjusted because it was a LOT easier to spread imperialism which I don’t think realistically makes sense. I do enjoy this game but even more information would be useful and perhaps a hint option. Thanks for creating! This is very educational.

Don’t get me wrong this is probably the best clone of Plague Inc. but the execution is just awful. The game gives you four ideologies to work with and that’s pretty good compared to other clones, but the actual differences in game are minimal. The map doesn’t give out details of any region or country making you guess with your world knowledge on what country is considered rich, poor, weak and strong. The reaction meter also shoots up way too fast. “How fast?” you ask? You are given 3-5 minutes, if even that, to develop your ideology to your liking after that you have less than 10 minutes before the game makes you lose. The reaction bar increases way too fast for any sort of development past the initial 2-4 upgrades as the world becomes almost instantly aware of your ideology. You can try to reduce that meter, but they cost way too much and do very little compared to the bar increasing almost as quickly when you got rid of it. I enjoy this concept, in fact I love it, but it’s execution of the ideas and poor development leave me to write this. Oh and by the way I forgot to mention that in order to unlock the other ideologies you HAVE to beat the previous ones on MAXIMUM. If your having a hard time on normal, don’t even touch that as you were going to loose before you even chose you country.

Overall, I thought this game was pretty good. I would recommend it. I found the gameplay and mechanics to be cerebral , fun and compelling. The graphics and sound were fine. At the time of this review (May ‘23), there are two constructive criticisms that I have. The first is the internationalization has some issues, Russian strings seemed fine, English and Spanish had some mistranslations (didn’t check others). The other issue is there are a smattering of minor technical issues that don’t really affect the gameplay very much, but ideally wouldn’t be there: a couple of examples. There are a few places where there are numeric quantities, e.g., political saturation of India, that hit their max and flip back to zero… and a couple of places where there are memory leaks (a few times noticed start a new game, parameters from last game still set). YMMV depending on platform. Cheers! -NW