Ideology Rush 12+

Good game, a few technical issues.

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

Too underdeveloped

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.

Interesting game

I just completed the game. It’s not as difficult as it may seem to be. You should just try to implement different strategies. The only thing I didn’t understand are the news, do they have any effect on the game and what do different news colors mean? Would like to try freedom mode, but definitely not willing to pay for it. Overall 4/5.

Réponse du développeur ,

Hello!
Thank you for your review!
PS: News that has a real impact on the gameplay has a green frame, news that does not affect gameplay (jokes or some random stuff) has a red frame, news related to the increase in reaction is displayed with a blue frame.